Featured Stories – Page 91
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VideoEleanor Corr, Royal Overseas League Gold Medalist, plays Grieg’s Violin Sonata
This month saw violinist Eleanor Corr win the Gold Medal and first prize of the Royal Overseas League Annual Music Competition, receiving £20,000. This is the first violinist to win the top award since 2016. In this video, Corr plays Grieg’s Violin Sonata for the competition final.
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FocusInnovative solutions: Postcard from Cremona
Cremona’s Mondomusica trade fair, held annually in the Italian city, was unable to go ahead as planned this year due to coronavirus. Charlotte Smith attended the alternative Special Edition, and witnessed a host of creative ways to deal with the pandemic
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VideoThe Spell and the Promise - a lock-down video with dancers
Directed by Lexi Kiddo, ‘The Spell & The Promise’ plays like a contemporary fairytale. The performance partners Gareth Davies (Principal Flute, London Symphony Orchestra) with dancers Faye Stoeser and Salomé Pressac, responding to composer Jasmin Kent Rodgman’s new and original composition. This is the second of two films from a ...
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Video‘Rising’ by Antonia Luxem: a film exploring our relationship with space in lock-down
‘Rising’ explores our longing for human connection alongside our relationship with space during a locked-down world. Directed by Antonia Luxem, it features Marie Astrid Mence (Ballet Black) with Maxine Kwok (First Violin, London Symphony Orchestra) performing a new composition by composer Darren Bloom. Watch: Juilliard students ‘do’ Bolero with guests ...
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FocusWho was the British cellist Leo Stern?
The career of the English cellist Leo Stern included the world premiere of the Dvořák Concerto under the baton of the composer, playing to Queen Victoria, and to President McKinley at the White House. Here, the cellist Mats Lidström profiles this too-little-known musician, who died aged 42
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VideoPekka Kuusisto performs with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra
In this concert, which was broadcast live yesterday (27 November 2020), Pekka Kuusisto performs with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in an all-British programme. Other solo performers include tenor Allan Clayton and horn-player Alec Frank-Gemmill. Watch: Pekka Kuusisto: Kreutzer 2 whole bow Watch: Pekka Kuusisto: bowing exercie for Kreutzer 2 ...
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FocusLatvian violinist Eva Bindere on playing music by one of her country’s greatest hidden talents
To tie in with the release of her new recording with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Bindere shares her experience of playing Tālivaldis Ķeniņš’s Violin Concerto
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NewsViolinist Yehonatan Berick has died aged 52
The Israeli-born virtuoso was also a respected teacher in Canada
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NewsSphinx Competition semi-finalists announced
Prizes totalling nearly $100,000 are available at the contest for US-based Black and Latinx string players
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FocusWhen Vieuxtemps performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, aged 14, he was hailed as a ‘musical genius’
The recent discovery of another cadenza to the first movement of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, likely by Vieuxtemps, sheds an interesting light on the early performance history of the work, writes Martin Wulfhorst
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VideoXuanhan Xu, winner of Pablo Casals International Award 2020, performs for competition audition
In this final audition video for the Pablo Casals International Award 2020, the competition winner, 16-year-old Xuanhan Xu, performs JS Bach’s Cello Suite No.3 and the first movement of Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A minor, Op.129. Read: Winners announced for Pablo Casals International Award
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FocusHow did Jascha Heifetz’s interpretations evolve over his lifetime?
The development of the great violinists from fresh young artists to profound musical thinkers can be charted through their recorded interpretations. Nathaniel Vallois uses his time in lockdown to examine changes in the playing style of some of the best-known names
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FeatureSentimental Work: Ray Chen
The Preludio and Gavotte en Rondeau from Bach’s Violin Partita no.3 were the violinist’s key to the Sonatas and Partitas – and provide meaning in the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic
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VideoIrish cellist Patrick Dexter gives lockdown performance against scenic backdrop
The Irish cellist Patrick Dexter, from County Mayo, has been giving regular performances outside in his backyard since the beginning of lockdown in March, playing music ranging from Schubert to traditional Irish folksongs. For more videos of Dexter performing, follow him on YouTube. Watch: Elton John’s ...
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Focus‘I’m a classically-trained violinist, but I’d love to play Jazz. How do I start?’
The genre-bending Dutch violinist Tim Kliphuis shares his top 7 tips
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NewsFree-to-watch online concert will celebrate 100 years of The Lark Ascending
Jennifer Pike will play Vaughan Williams’s masterpiece at Shirehampton Public Hall, where its world premiere took place 100 years ago
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Focus‘I hope our Bach might give another musician a slight push to keep going a little longer’ – Tim Crawford
The three Tims of the Teyber Trio (cellist Tim Posner, violist Timothy Ridout and violinist Tim Crawford) talk about their genesis as a group, playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and finding the motivation to rehearse during the time of COVID
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VideoNicola Benedetti and friends play Ernest Bloch’s Prayer
In this video, Nicola Benedetti and musical colleagues play a new arrangement by the Ayoub Sisters of Ernest Bloch’s ‘Prayer’ (originally composed in 1924 for Cello and Piano) - commissioned by the luxury furniture-making company Maker&Son in support of The Benedetti Foundation. This performance also features Yume Fujise and Charlie ...
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NewsHuddersfield Contemporary Music Festival heads online this weekend
Two days and three nights of cutting-edge new music from the UK and around the world
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VideoGrand Teton Music Festival on location: New York
This concert from the Grand Teton Music Festival on location series (a 5-concert digital chamber music series featuring small ensembles, recorded and produced remotely in the home cities of Festival Orchestra musicians ) was held at St. Bartholomew’s Church, 325 Park Avenue, New York on 12 November, with a programme ...
