Featured Stories – Page 109
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FocusMatthew Barley: How a skiing injury changed the way I play
The British cellist reveals how he overcame the shoulder complaint that threatened his career. From the January 2009 issue
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NewsVerbier Festival announces emergency relief fund for its alumni
The festival has also announced the launch of its new ‘VF at Home’ website featuring highlights from past events
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VideoBach’s Badinerie in a Parking Lot
In their own spin on ‘Quarantine Sessions’, flautist Zacharias Tarpagkos and cellist Alex Botinis (from the Greek National Opera and the Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra respectively) perform Bach’s Badinerie in a parking lot.
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VideoHomespun Miniatures by Alex Woolf
As part of ‘At Home with LMP’ , the online initiative launchedthree weeks ago, the London Mozart Players is releasing a series of ‘Homespun Miniatures’ written by award-winning young composer Alex Woolf, the first of which had its premiere on Channel 4 News last week. Watch it here. The second ...
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FocusBrahms among the Palms: Postcard from Boca Raton
Florida’s second triennial Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition brought a classical feast to a part of the world perhaps better known for its beaches and golf retreats, writes Laurence Vittes
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VideoWorking from home: violinist Peter Biely plays Falla to his own guitar accompaniment
The Slovak violinist Peter Biely plays Falla’s/Kreisler’s ’Spanish Dance’ with his own improvised guitar accompaniment
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ArticleCellist Paul Katz on creating your ideal sound with vibrato
The New England Conservatory cello professor describes how to vary hand position to produce your desired vibrato sound
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VideoWorking from home: UriPoste Jukebox
Locked down in Philadelphia, violinist Elena Urioste and her pianist husband Tom Poster invited people on social media to send in requests for pieces they could arrange and film themselves playing. Here, as a belated 21st birthday present for cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, who asked if we might arrange some Bob ...
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VideoWorking from home: Augustin Hadelich
The German-American violinist plays both the violin and piano parts of Kreisler’s Liebesfreud. The recording was made on 6 April 2020 in Hadelich’s home during the coronavirus lockdown. Hadelich writes: ’Here is “Liebesfreud” by Fritz Kreisler, one of his most joyful pieces. I love the line in the piano answering ...
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NewsNew technology turns violins into digital music creators
Inventors Alessandro Baticci and Rafal Zalech have begun a Kickstarter campaign to launch the product
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FocusAcademy of St Martin in the Fields on their current music director Joshua Bell
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields celebrates its 60th anniversary this season with a 60-CD box set of its celebrated recordings, and tours to Europe and the US. Toby Deller speaks to some of the orchestra’s long-standing string players about the experience of playing under their current music ...
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VideoWorking from home: Kronos Quartet introduces ‘Ask Kronos Anything’
David Harrington, John Sherba, Hank Dutt and Sunny Yang from the Kronos Quartet introduce ‘Ask Kronos Anything’, a new series in which they answer questions from the public online.
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VideoWorking from home: the Kanneh-Mason family
A video introduced by the Kanneh-Mason sisters in which they describe their daily routine before cutting to a cello and violin duet between 20-year-old Sheku and his 22-year-old brother Braimah. The video finishes with a piano performance from 23-year-old Isata.
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NewsIsabelle Faust plays Bach in empty St Thomas Church, Leipzig
The concert took place at 4pm on Sunday 5 April
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FocusTechnique: How do you develop musicality?
Exercises and advice from Ross Harbaugh, professor of cello at Miami’s Frost School of Music, to help build musical awareness and understanding
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VideoYo-Yo Ma and Youth Music Culture Guangdong perform Bach
Ma is artistic director of the annual training programme, which takes place in Guangzhou, China
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VideoViolinist plays classical music for South Korea hospital patients
Won Hyung-joon performed Bach/Gounod’s Ave Maria just outside the hospital room occupied by a family of coronavirus patients
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VideoLive-streamed concert by the Echo Ensemble
The London-based group is running a series of concerts every Wednesday evening at 7.30pm
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NewsLondon’s Barbican extends closure to 30 June 2020
The arts space also calls for donations from audiences ’to enable it to keep investing in the artists and organisations it works with’
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NewsFundraising campaign launched for freelance musicians in Germany
The German Orchestra Foundation has so far raised more than €855,000 for the emergency fund
