Featured Stories – Page 136
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ArticleMischa Maisky performs Saint-Saëns's The Swan
Cellist Mischa Maisky performs 'The Swan' from Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy.The performance was recorded at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland on 27 July 2015. The entire concert, including Maisky's performance of Shostakovich's Cello Concerto can be viewed ...
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ArticleCellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah
BBC Young Musician 2016 winner Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah in an arrangement by composer-pianist Tom Hodge at London's Abbey Road Studios in the video above.The 17-year-old cellist performed the work at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) televised ceremony at London's Royal Albert Hall yesterday evening ...
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BlogsConquering performance nerves: staying focused on stage
Brian Hodges and Diana Allan answer student questions on coping with stage fright
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BlogsDeveloping a natural and relaxed approach to string playing – part 2
Portland State University professor Dr Tomas Cotik gives an introduction to kinesthetic feelings and demonstrates techniques and exercises
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BlogsDeveloping a natural and relaxed approach to string playing - part 1
Portland State University professor Dr Tomas Cotik gives an introduction to kinesthetic feelings and demonstrates techniques and exercises
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FocusIs popping pills the sure way to beat performance nerves?
In this article from The Strad August 2010, Catherine Nelson talks to musicians and medical experts about the risks and benefits of using beta-blockers to overcome performance anxiety, and why their use is still such a sensitive subject
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Blogs10 tips for winning a chamber music competition
The Notos Quartet has won numerous competitions - including the Parkhouse Award in London in 2011, Premio Vittorio Gui in Florence in 2013, the Almere Competition in the Netherlands in 2016 and the Schoenfeld Competition in China in 2016. Here they offer advice to aspiring chamber groups
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ArticleSirena Huang performs at Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition 2017
22-year-old US violinist Sirena Huang performs in the semi-final round of the inaugural Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition (EOIVC), which concluded at Florida’s Lynn Conservatory of Music on Sunday 5 February 2017.Her programme includes the first movement of Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto and the first movement of Tchaikovsky's ...
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BlogsHow to bring 'grain' to your sound - cellist and baritone Matthew Sharp
The British artist describes how to use the body to create a 'fearlessness of expression' and to give the sound meaning 'beyond surface preoccupations'
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BlogsHow do I overcome the fear of not being good enough?
Brian Hodges and Diana Allan answer student questions on coping with stage fright
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Focus'Students should find the original score, not just rely on the Internet' - cellist Christophe Coin
For Christophe Coin, the French cellist, gambist and musical time-traveller, historically informed performance practice involves a combination of forensic-level investigation and leap-of-faith creativity, he tells Helen Wallace
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BlogsIntermediary notes are unnecessary for shifting
One the great pedagogical minds of the 20th Century, Yuri Yankelevich (1909-1973) wrote an extremely detailed treatise on shifting that has now been published in English by Oxford University Press. Translator Masha Lankovsky takes a look at one of his conclusions
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ArticleViolinist James Ehnes performs Flight of the Bumblebee
Violinist James Ehnes and pianist Andrew Armstrong perform Jascha Heifetz's arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee in December 2015 to promote of Ehnes's 40th birthday tour. Watch: David Garrett sets Guinness World Record for Fastest Violin Player with Flight of the Bumblebee Watch: Cellist performs Flight ...
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FocusPsychoanalysing Mozart
Are the frequent mood swings in Mozart's violin works a symptom of operatic composing, or of his affliction with a rare psychiatric disorder? Rok Klopčič offers some thoughts
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BlogsConquering performance nerves: how can I become more comfortable during lessons?
Brian Hodges and Diana Allan answer student questions on coping with stage fright
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ArticleAn orchestra of 90 double basses
90 double bass players of the Korea Double Bass Association perform 'The Death of Ase', 'Anitra's Dance' and 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' from Grieg's Peer Gynt at the Seoul Arts Center, South Korea in October 2011.Watch: 1,000 cellists perform in JapanRead: Too few conductors understand ...
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BlogsSing your way to string playing perfection - violinist Jack Liebeck
Breath control is very much like bow control, says the British violinist and Royal Academy of Music professor
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ArticleChristophe Coin performs Vivaldi on 5-string violoncello piccolo
Christophe Coin, who is interviewed in The Strad's February 2017 issue, performs Vivaldi's Cello Concerto RV 414 in G on a five-string violoncello piccolo with Il Giardino Armonico.Read: Ask the Experts - obtaining a five-string celloRead: Violoncello da spalla – story of a rediscovery
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ArticleViolinist David Garrett performs Bazzini's Dance of the Goblins New Year's Eve 2016
German violinist David Garrett performs Bazzini's Dance of the Goblins as part of the New Year's Eve show on Russian television station Kultura, 31 December 2016. Watch: David Garrett sets Guinness World Record for Fastest Violin Player Watch: Violinist Maxim Vengerov performs Bazzini’s Dance of the Goblins
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ArticleCellist Gary Hoffman gives Tchaikovsky masterclass 2016
In each case your shift is taking place on the new bow rather than the old bow, which means you're not anticipating the new position.' Gary Hoffman gives a cello masterclass at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel on Tchaikovsky's Pezzo capriccioso, op.62 on 9 May 2016. The ...
