Featured Stories – Page 114
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VideoWe Are NY Phil: Associate Principal Viola Rebecca Young
We Are NY Phil, a video series featuring musicians of the Orchestra, brings you closer to Philharmonic musicians by focusing on their lives outside the concert hall and following the activities they are most passionate about. The second video of the series explores how humour plays a key role in ...
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Focus5 tips for viola players, by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's Manchin Zhang
Manchin Zhang shares her wisdom on various aspects of playing the viola, from vibrato to body balance
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FocusHow I interpret Bach: Tomás Cotik on Treatises Sources, Numerology and the Doctrine of Affections
Ahead of his 2020 album release of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, the violinist continues his blog series, in which he discusses the contradictions between the opposing trends and traditions in Bach interpretation, and his personal solutions to them
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Premium ❘ FeatureÉbène Quartet: The Freedom of Instability
Currently making international appearances to mark Beethoven’s 250th birthday as well as celebrating 20 years since its foundation, the Ébène Quartet is riding high now that violist Marie Chilemme has become an established member. But, the players tell Charlotte Gardner, replacing former violist Mathieu Herzog was no easy matter following ...
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VideoBenedetti Foundation Orchestra play ‘Intermezzo’ from Cavalleria Rusticana
Nicola Benedetti leads the Benedetti Foundation Orchestra
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Premium ❘ FeatureJerry Horner: A Virtuoso Teacher
In February last year, former Fine Arts Quartet violist Jerry Horner died at the age of 83. China Conservatory of Music violin professor and past Horner student James Dickenson reflects on the career and teaching legacy of a fine mentor, drawing on interviews with Horner’s students and colleagues, and with ...
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Premium ❘ FeatureRetirement from Performance: A Change of Pace
Is there a time when we should admit defeat, acknowledge our age and put our instruments away for good? Or is it possible to keep enjoying, playing and sharing music forever? Pauline Harding talks to musicians young and old about falling standards, failing physiques and a joy of playing music ...
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ArticlePremiere of the month: Márton Illés’s Én-kör III
Patricia Kopatchinskaja to perform new work requiring ‘power, precision and virtuosity’
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VideoSilkroad Ensemble performs Kinan Azmeh’s ‘Wedding’ at Tanglewood
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma came up with the idea of Silkroad, formerly named the Silk Road Project, in 1998, inspired by the historical Silk Road trading route that linked China with the West. The Silkroad Ensemble launched in 2000, comprising musicians from countries along this route. ‘We started as a group ...
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Premium ❘ ArticleOpinion: going international
Despite the large number of young and talented British string players, few seem to make an impact as leading soloists on the world stage. Charlotte Gardner explores the reasons for this phenomenon
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Premium ❘ ArticleSentimental work: Rivka Golani on Michael Colgrass’ Chaconne
As well as giving the first performance of Michael Colgrass’s Chaconne, the Israeli violist provided the initial spark of inspiration – with the help of her own paintings
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NewsDutch violinist and musicologist Jaap Schröder dies aged 94
Schröder was a key figure in the revival of Baroque, Classical and early Romantic string playing
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VideoTwoSetViolin: The Twelve Levels of Violin Playing
The musical double act abandon their usual hijinx in favour of something more serious for newbie violinists: a whistle-stop tour of what their violin-playing career could look like (with a bit of practice).
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Article‘I look up to the ceiling and suddenly notice the stucco’
Cellist Thomas Demenga on the illuminating power of ornamentation in Bach’s Cello Suites
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VideoKyung Wha Chung plays Dvořák’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra
In this tribute concert to Riccardo Muti from the 1980s, the violinist Kyung Wha Chung plays Dvořák’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Op 11, with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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VideoJupiter String Quartet plays Debussy’s String Quartet
In this video, the Jupiter String Quartet (violinists Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violist Liz Freivogel and cellist Daniel McDonough) plays Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, Op 10, at the Bowdoin International Music Festival on July 30, 2018.
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VideoAnne-Sophie Mutter plays Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No 9, ‘Kreutzer’
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist Lambert Orkis perform Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No 9, ‘Kreutzer’ in this concert filmed at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris.
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VideoPacific Symphony Youth Octet plays Mendelssohn
On the 8th day of Christmas we bring to you: the Pacific Symphony Youth Octet performing Mendelssohn’s Octet in May 2020.
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Article‘Why play drunk people prettily?’
On day seven of our festive season of quotes from The Strad archive, violinist Pekka Kuusisto recalls a controversial performance he gave of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
