Featured Stories – Page 24
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis December 2022: A safe space for musicians?
As the UK government holds an inquiry into misogyny in music, the Musicians’ Union calls for further action to safeguard female players.
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BlogsHow we transcribed an entire opera for violin and piano: violinist Mathieu van Bellen
How can the rich orchestration and lyricism of Puccini’s La Bohème translate to only two instruments? Violinist Mathieu van Bellen shares how
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Blogs‘Paganini: a whole gamut of advanced techniques’ - Mathilde Milwidsky and Robert Taub
How do you create a recital programme around Paganini? Violinist Mathilde Milwidsky and Robert Taub share their inspirations ahead of a performance at Plymouth’s Levinsky Hall
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Blogs‘Putting myself in my ancestors’ shoes’: Cellist Natasha Jaffe
Cellist and composer Natasha Jaffe on finding a way to explore her transatlantic heritage, despite the obstacles of lockdown
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Premium ❘ Focus‘Only give it as much as you need’ - Thomas Demenga’s life lessons
The Swiss cellist on the importance of memorisation and the influence of different systems
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Article‘It was like the earth moved beneath me’ - violinist Leonidas Kavakos on playing the ’Willemotte’ Stradivari
Kavakos describes his first encounter with the 1734 violin, made when Antonio Stradivari was 90 years old
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Blogs‘Like day and night’: The Jubilee Quartet on two contrasting Schubert works
The Jubilee Quartet reflects on two Schubert string quartets that represent starkly different periods of the composer’s life
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Blogs‘Like solving a Rubik’s Cube while dancing at the same time’: violinist Robert McDuffie
Robert McDuffie reflects on the challenges of works by John Adams, Philip Glass and John Corigliano ahead of his album release on 4 November
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Premium ❘ Focus‘I was falling in love with chamber music all over again’ - Postcard from Napa Valley
Laurence Vittes finds that the combination of chamber music and the vineyards of California’s Napa Valley makes a festival that’s hard to resist
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BlogsHow to improve your aural skills and ditch your sheet music in 5 easy steps
Simplicity, curiosity and diligence are the keys to learning by ear, according to violinist Lissa Schneckenburger
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Premium ❘ Feature‘I want to write music where the sensibilities of the player are encouraged’ - Caroline Shaw
The youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Caroline Shaw talks to Toby Deller about her eclectic influences and finding inspiration in the most unlikely places
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GalleryA walk through the Giovanni Bottesini exhibition
An exhibition celebrating the life and times of the influential double bassist was held from 10 to 18 October in Crema, Italy
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Premium ❘ FeatureBlack community orchestras in the US: Hidden histories
During America’s 20th-century social inequalities, African American musicians set up their own community orchestras, Eliesha Nelson traces their history and legacy
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Blogs‘The harrowing history of apartheid underpins the work’: Samantha Ege
Samantha Ege offers her insights working with Castle of our Skins on their programme of chamber works from the African continent and diaspora
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Blogs‘Throw, snatch, shower, cascade’: How United Strings of Europe combines string playing with jugglers
Music director and violinist Julian Azkoul shares what it’s like to perform with live-action jugglers in a new work exploring social and artistic recovery
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Blogs‘It begins with awareness of the unmistakable link between music and emotions’ - Sarah Daramy-Williams
Violinist Sarah Daramy-Williams explores a more holistic approach to creating music outside the rigid forms and boxes of the traditional classical world
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Premium ❘ Focus‘It seemed like the Mount Everest of the repertoire’ - Nicolas Altstaedt on Dvořák's ‘Dumky’ trio
Dvořák’s ‘Dumky’ Piano Trio always seemed like the Mount Everest of the repertoire, until the Covid lockdowns gave the German cellist a chance to find the real meaning behind it
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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: the Chiaroscuro Quartet on Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets
The members of the Chiaroscuro Quartet on combining detailed preparation while retaining a sense of spontaneity when recording Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets
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BlogsCellist Leo Eguchi: ‘How can we recognise our common humanity?’
The Japanese-American cellist shares how he uses music and metaphor to explore the stories of immigrants and first-generation Americans, via his project Unaccompanied
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Focus‘We have to fight a history of stereotyping’ - Black representation in classical music
An extract from November 2021 explores the importance of listening to Black colleagues’ perspectives without being judgemental or defensive