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VideoRachel Podger and Nicola Benedetti explore the physicality of playing the violin
This is the final video of ‘Building Foundations’ Virtual Sessions, in which Nicola Benedetti shares a series of short interviews on the topic of physicality and psychology of playing with a variety of musicians. Here, Benedetti chats with violinist Rachel Podger about approaches to technique both physically and mentally, the ...
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VideoViolist Stephen Upshaw plays Errollyn Wallen’s Lavinia
The violist Stephen Upshaw plays Errollyn Wallen’s ‘LAVINIA’, commissioned for him by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and Riot Ensemble. Wallen says of her piece: ‘Based on the Ancient Greek character Lavinia, this piece seeks to convey the overwhelming and consuming nature of jealousy which most often grows out ...
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VideoMusic & Maths: Baroque & Beyond with Marcus du Sautoy
What is it that makes Stradivarius violins so special and unique? And what does Newton’s Cradle have to do with Baroque music? Marcus du Sautoy, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, presents a programme delving into the relationship between ...
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ArticleOnly have an hour to spare? Then practise like this
Two top pedagogues give their us their best 60-minute practice tips
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Article‘There’s nothing more I can do than my two to three hours of practice a day’ – David Garrett on Covid-19
In this extract from our April issue, the crossover start tell us how past injuries have stopped him turning to intense practice to fill the hours
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NewsLondon-based concertmaster practises and composes music during shifts as an Uber driver
Raffaele Pagano took on work as an Uber driver after Covid-19 put his musical career on hold
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VideoMartinu’s Three Madrigals at the Bromley & Beckenham Festival
Violinist Hyeyoon Park and Violist Timothy Ridout play Martinů’s Three Madrigals, H.313
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VideoNigel Kennedy plays Mendelssohn aged 26
There’s little sign of what was to come in this video of the crossover star performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in 1982
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NewsCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra players return thanks to new acoustic screen
The orchestra has announced two months of performances with live audiences from 19 May
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NewsFormer Toronto Symphony concertmaster Gerard Kantarjian has died
Kantarjian, who was 90, was born in Cairo and studied with Ivan Galamian in Philadelphia
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WinWIN Bomsori’s latest recording ‘Violin on Stage’
The Korean violinist’s new CD is released on 18 June
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Premium ❘ ArticleNigel Kennedy: ‘Critics were pretending I was playing out of tune because I’d sold a few records’
In this interview, first published in The Strad’s March 1999 edition, the crossover violinist hits back at snobbery in the classical music world
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NewsViolinist Jessie Montgomery appointed Chicago Symphony composer in residence
Montgomery’s three-year position will see her write a series of new orchestral and chamber works
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BlogsMarcus du Sautoy explores the symmetry of Stradivari
The Oxford professor for the public undestanding of science attempts to discover what makes Stradivari so special
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NewsConcertgebouw violist Peter Sokole has died
Sokole, who has died from Covid-19, spent almost three decades assistant principal violist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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FocusHow a Berlin-based Yorkshire violinist experienced Brexit through his music
The violinist Simon Goff explains how he was affected by Brexit as a Brit living in Germany
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VideoConcertos from the Inside: Rachel Barton Pine plays music by the Chevalier de Saint-Georges
In January, the American violinist Rachel Barton Pine launched 24 in 24: Concertos from the Inside with RBP, a series in which she is performing 24 different violin concertos live and unaccompanied in 24 weeks. As part of the performance, she also delivers a pre-concert talk, and confides what she ...
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: April 1991
In 1989, the Soviet Union removed a cap on the number of people allowed to emigrate from its borders. With many musicians among them, hundreds of thousands headed for Israel, as writer Yossi Schiffmann reports
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VideoPremiere of the Month: Amabile Quartet rehearse new work
Ahead of their performance at Tokyo’s Hakuju Hall, the Amabile Quartet rehearse Dai Fujikura’s ‘Aquarius’
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NewsPremiere of the month: Shifting shapes
The Amabile Quartet play Dai Fujikura’s tactile textures and flowing forms
