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VideoLA Phil concertmaster Nathan Cole gives Don Juan masterclass
‘I often think Don Juan inspires fear simply because of its name! It doesn’t have to be scary – it’s a great opportunity to show off’ Los Angeles Philharmonic first associate concertmaster Nathan Cole takes us through that great pinnacle of orchestral audition repertoire – Richard Strauss’s Don Juan. ...
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Premium ❘ DebateTake the hostility out of string playing
Today's performers should remember that you don't need to be aggressive to make a searing point, argues Richard S. Ginell
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ArticleViolinist Renaud Capuçon performs solo Bach
French violinist Renaud Capuçon performs the Allemande from Bach's Second Partita for solo violin in D minor BWV 1004 in a performance recorded in October 2016 for Le Temps. Watch: Renaud Capuçon rehearses Beethoven’s Violin Concerto 2017 Watch: Renaud Capuçon performs Korngold’s Violin Concerto
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ArticleViolinist Rachel Podger on matching technique and musicality
Often you find that technique and musicality marry quite well. Something that works musically will so often also work from a technical perspective. And the opposite is also true - that if you change a passage for technical reasons it suddenly makes more musical sense too!' Baroque ...
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ArticleRay Chen rehearses Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Ray Chen rehearses Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko for performances that took place on 22 and 23 June 2017. The video features commentary and insights from Chen about the concerto - the first work he ever played with an ...
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ArticleTips for touring musicians - by Cincinnati Symphony concertmaster Timothy Lees
The violinist gives advice on staying grounded and rested, adjusting to different halls, and keeping each performance fresh during an orchestral concert tour
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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov performs Paganini's Caprice no.2, aged 16
Maxim Vengerov performs Paganini's Second Caprice at the age of 16 as an encore at the Gasteig Philharmonic Hall in Munich, Germany in 1990. Read: Paganini, the great violinist, is taught a lesson Watch: Violinist Maxim Vengerov performs Paganini’s Caprice no.24
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Article13-year-old violinist NaKyung Kang gives winning Sibelius performance at Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians
South Korean violinist NaKyung Kang, aged 13, performs Sibelius's Violin Concerto in the Violin Division of the 2017 International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians - which she won alongside 14-year-old violinist Eugene Kawai from Japan. The contest was held last month in Kazakhstan, also featuring Piano and ...
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ArticleViolinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis perform Brahms's Double Concerto
Violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis perform Brahms's Double Concerto with the Academy of St Martinuin the Fields at the Bravo! Vail 2017 Music Festival in Colorado. The performance was recorded live on 24 June 2017 with Bell conducting from the violin. Read: ‘I often have ...
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ArticleHaydn's music is much more unpredictable than Mozart's - the Chiaroscuro Quartet
For their new release the players of the Chiaroscuro Quartet have put their gut strings and period bows to work on Haydn's kaleidoscopic op.20 'Sun' quartets - the second of two recordings. Helen Wallace meets the musicians during rehearsals.
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ArticleVienna Philharmonic audition masterclass - principal cellist Tamás Varga on Brahms
There are two separate statements in the opening: the first is hopeful and questioning; the second provides an answer' Vienna Philharmonic principal cellist Tamás Varga coaches Clara Abel on an excerpt from Brahms’s Symphony no. 2 in the Resnick Education Wing of New York's Carnegie Hall on ...
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ArticleViolist Paul Neubauer on working with conductor Leonard Bernstein
Current Juilliard School viola professor Paul Neubauer served for six years as principal violist of the New York Philharmonic, where he worked with such conductors as Leonard Bernstein and Mstislav Rostropovich
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ArticleHow I cope with the pressures of life as a soloist - Jordi Savall
The viola da gamba player and conductor advocates concentrating on the little things rather than stressing about the whole
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ArticleChiaroscuro Quartet and pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout perform Mozart
UK period ensemble the Chiaroscuro Quartet - violinists Alina Ibragimova and Pablo Hernán Benedí, violist Emilie Hörnlund and cellist Claire Thirion - performs Mozart's Piano Concerto no.12 with pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout in a video filmed by BR-Klassik. In The Strad's July 2017 issue the Chiaroscuro Quartet discusses ...
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ArticleViolinist Ruggiero Ricci's three commandments - by former student Matthew Trusler
The British violinist - founder of Orchid Classics and co-artistic director of the Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival - shares the three main lessons he learned from his former teacher Ruggiero Ricci
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Article5 ways for musicians to receive concert and festival bookings
Erik Christian Peterson and Emily Ondracek-Peterson - co-artistic directors of the Crested Butte Music Festival and members of the Voxare String Quartet - share five attributes presenters look for when booking musicians
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ArticleVibrato in slow motion - on violin and cello
As part of a series of studies on vibrato pitch centre (2004, 2005, 2014), researchers Rebecca MacLeod of the University of North Carolina and John Geringer of Florida State University asked 60 university string players and a former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic to perform a ...
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ArticleViolinist Hilary Hahn performs music for babies
In the video above Hilary Hahn gives a concert for babies on 28 April 2017 in association with the Auditorium of the National Orchestra of Lyon. The violinist announced in March that she would give concerts for parents and babies, having identified a gap in the market ...
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ArticleViolinist Ana Chumachenco on body movement when playing
When you play you are moving around everywhere, but in the most important places for you to be free - the arms and torso - you are tense' Italian violinist Ana Chumachenco discusses body movement in Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto in a masterclass recorded at the Verbier ...
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ArticleCellist Mischa Maisky performs Bach in the mountains
Cellist Mischa Maisky performs the Prelude from Bach's First Cello Suite as an encore at Rifugio Rosetta - 2.581 meters above sea level on the western edge of the Plateau Pale above the village of San Martinu di Castrozza, Italy. The performance took place as part ...
