Featured Stories – Page 146
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ArticleJanine Jansen performs Brahms Violin Concerto
Janine Jansen performs Brahms's Violin Concerto with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Bernard Haitink in 2014.Antje Weithaas continues The Strad’s marked-up sheet music series in association with Henle Verlag with the Brahms Concerto's first movement – giving bowings, fingerings and ideas for interpretation in our June ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman performs Wieniawski's Etude Caprice, op.18 no.4
Violinist Itzhak Perlman performs Wieniawski's Etude Caprice op.18 no.4 in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Concerto Hall in 1992. Read: Never practise for more than five hours per day, says violinist Itzhak Perlman Watch: Violinist Itzhak Perlman on musical prodigies
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FocusA history and anatomy of Beethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata
The dedicatee of Beethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata considered it so impenetrable that he never even played it. Rok Klopčič untangles some of the difficulties of this much-loved work
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ArticleViolinist Isaac Stern and cellist Yo-Yo Ma perform the Brahms Double Concerto
A 66-year-old Isaac Stern performs Brahms Double Concerto in A minor, op.102, with Yo-Yo Ma and the NHK Symphony Orchestra at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo in 1986. Watch: Isaac Stern on what makes an artist Watch: Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose and Eugene Istomin perform Brahms Watch: ...
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ArticleViolinist Yoojin Jang gives winning Mendelssohn and Stravinsky performances at Sendai Competition
Yoojin Jang gives her winning performances of Mendelssohn and Stravinsky violin concertos in the final of the 2016 Sendai International Violin Competition with the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Junichi Hirokami.Read: Yoojin Jang wins Sendai International Violin Competition 2016
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ArticleViolinist Ayana Tsuji gives winning Sibelius performance at Montreal Music Competition
18-year-old Japanese violinist Ayana Tsuji gives her winning performance of Sibelius's Violin Concerto at the 2016 Montreal International Music Competition with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.Read: Violinist Ayana Tsuji wins Montreal International Music Competition
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ArticleChristian Tetzlaff violin masterclass: Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47
You use an arm vibrato, but I think you should add a hand vibrato to your repertoire - the piece needs to sound like an old man with lots of body, more relaxed' Christian Tetzlaff gives a masterclass on Sibelius' Violin Concerto in D minor at the ...
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FocusHow the harmonic series can unleash your tonal energy
Work on the harmonic series and you'll release a wealth of colour from your instrument without effort. Pedro de Alcantara explains how it's done
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ArticleMischa Maisky plays Bach Cello Suite No.1 in G
Mischa Maisky performs the Bach Cello Suite No.1 in G.Watch: Cellist Mischa Maisky performs Rachmaninov’s VocaliseWatch: Mischa Maisky performs Haydn’s Cello Concerto no.1Read: Cellist Mischa Maisky on studying with Piatigorsky and Rostropovich
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BlogsA cellist's bow goes flying
23-year-old International Paulo Cello Competition-winning cellist Kian Soltani loses control of his bow - but retains his composure - while playing Dohnányi's String Trio Serenade with Montreal International Musical Competition-winning violinist Marc Bouchkov and Ebène Quartet violist Adrien Boisseau.
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ArticleQuebec violin students perform Star Wars theme with lightsaber bows
Students from the École de l'Harmonie in Quebec perform John Williams's Star Wars theme with lightsaber bows in December 2015. The bows were made using LEDs by violin teacher Philippe Amyot. 'Balancing the bows was hard work for the children because of the added weight,' he said.Watch: John ...
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FocusProkofiev's First Violin Concerto is rarely performed - but the work is unique
Recordings of the work - from Joseph Szigeti's in 1935 to James Ehnes's in 2013 - are compared in The Strad's June 2016 issue
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FocusThe importance of lateral movement in the left hand for string players
Surprisingly little has been said in the literature about the sideways left-hand movement, although any passage over more than one string uses it. Rok Klopčič researches
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ArticleItzhak Perlman performs Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto
Itzhak Perlman performs Prokofiev's Violin Concerto no.1 A recording collector's guide to the Prokofiev Concerto is featured in The Strad's June 2016 issue – download now through The Strad App or on desktop computer
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ArticleLionel Handy plays the Kodály Cello Sonata
Royal Academy of Music cello professor Lionel Handy performs the first movement of Kodály's Cello Sonata, Op.8.Handy discusses double-stopping in the Technique section of The Strad’s June 2016 issue – download now through The Strad App or on desktop computer.
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ArticleAdrian Anantawan, born without a right hand, performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
Adrian Anantawan, a Canadian violinist born without a right hand, performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra with the help of a prosthetic arm.The violinist, who studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, features in The Strad's June 2016 issue analysis feature on the training of ...
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ArticleRay Chen's violin swapping Bach Double Concerto encore
Ray Chen gives an entertaining rendition of Bach's Double Violin Concerto alongside close friends and conductors Diego Matheuz and Christian Vasquez. Chen was performing a concert as part of the El Sistema programme in Venezuela. Watch: Ray Chen comedy videos compilation Watch: The Strad Masterclass: Ray Chen ...
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FocusSheet music: Abram Yampolsky's fiendishly difficult E major study
Could Yampolsky's variation on Kreutzer's Etude-Caprice be the best work ever for practising arpeggios? Rok Klopčič thinks so
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ArticleJennifer Stumm viola masterclass: Bartók Concerto
To me this piece is about contrasts between light and dark, speaking and singing, and tension and relaxation'Jennifer Stumm, Chair of Viola Studies at the Royal College of Music, presents a masterclass on the Bartók Viola Concerto at the 2014 SÁo Paulo Viola Day.Watch: Tabea Zimmermann performs Bartók's ...
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Premium ❘ FeatureHis master's pupil: how Erick Friedman struggled in the shadow of Jascha Heifetz
Erick Friedman, Heifetz's first student and a virtuoso in his own right, was frustrated by continual comparisons to his teacher. Dennis Rooney looks back at his life
