Featured Stories – Page 77
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NewsMenuhin competition finalists announced
Nine young violinists will compete next week for their share of more than $80,000
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VideoDallas String Quartet delivers a Latin twist
In this video the Dallas String Quartet teams up with the jazz pianist Jesús Molina for a spicy, original single entitled ‘Sabor,’ delivering a Latin twist and spicy keys from Molina (of Colombia). Read ’I’m a classically-trained violinist, but I’d love to play Jazz. How do I start?’
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FocusEasing back into performance post Covid-19
Berenice Beverley Zammit, Graduate Teaching Assistant for Music Performance Psychology at the Royal College of Music, gives guidance on getting back into practice after a year of lockdown
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FocusHow lockdown inspired me to compose for my own instrument
When the first lockdown hit in March 2020, composer-cellist Colin Alexander was finally inspired to write multi-layered solo music for his own instrument - something he had never tried before, as he explains here
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VideoAmit Peled plays an African-American Spiritual
The Israeli cellist Amit Peled plays ‘A Motherless Child’, an African American Spiritual newly arranged for cello and orchestra, with the Asheville Symphony. Read Sentimental Work: Amit Peled Read Cellist Amit Peled launches online cello academy sessions Watch 12-year-old violinist Leia Zhu plays Kodály with cellist Amit Peled
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NewsRussia announces new system of instrument passports
Following a number of wrongful confiscations at Russian airports, the new system aims to make life easier for traveling musicians
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VideoMorgen! Nicola Benedetti and Andrew Staples perform Richard Strauss
Members of the Aurora Orchestra and conductor Nicholas Collon are joined by Benedetti and Staples for Strauss’s 1894 song ‘Morgen!’
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ArticleRoyal wedding conductor and violinist quits Charlotte Symphony
Christopher Warren-Green, a former concertmaster of the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted at the weddings of Princes Charles, William and Harry
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ArticleMexican string siblings murdered by organised crime group
José Alberto, Ana Karen and Luis Ángel González Moreno were kidnapped and killed by members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
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Focus‘I think there’s a feeling that you expect out of an encore’ – Hilary Hahn
The violinist Hilary Hahn speaks to Charlotte Gardner about her encore choices
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ArticleSponsored: Waltham Forest Cello Fest 2021
Now in its third year, the London-based celebration of all things cello is back with a jam-packed programme of events
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VideoBoris Begelman plays Bach
In this music video from 2017 the violinist Boris Begelman plays the Gavotte from Bach’s Violin Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006. Read Session Report: Playing the hero
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FocusDoes criticising Vivaldi's abundant output miss the point?
Violinist Boris Begelman’s new recording represents a small fraction of the hundreds of violin concertos Vivaldi wrote during his lifetime – but people miss the point when they assume the composer’s prolific output equates to works of lesser quality, he tells Tom Stewart
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VideoHilary Hahn plays Dvorák’s Violin Concerto in a ‘concert without public’
In this concert, performed in an empty hr-Sendesaal Frankfurt on 22 April 2021, Hilary Hahn plays Dvořák’s Violin Concerto with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony under Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Read How I warm up: Hilary Hahn
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ArticleHow to play on gut strings for the first time
As a violinist with only modern training, exploring the sound world of gut strings was a daunting yet exciting proposition for Francisco Fullana. Here he gives guidance on how to start and what to keep in mind
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VideoPekka Kuusisto brings Proms audience to their feet with Finnish folk song
A encore performance from 2016 that, in Kuusisto’s words, ‘has become a little larger than life’
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NewsTop violinists record tribute to Corinne Chapelle
Alumni of the Yehudi Menuhin School are raising money for the family of the violinist, who died in March
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NewsDouble bassist Naomi Shaham appointed Leipzig Gewandhaus principal
Born in 1997, Shaham currently plays with the West Eastern Divan and Budapest Festival orchestras
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VideoCellist Laura van der Heijden plays Walton in BBC Young Musician final 2012
Van der Heijden took home the trophy with this performance of Walton’s Cello Concerto in the 2012 competition final
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VideoNicola Benedetti and friends explore the psychology and physicality of playing
Highlights from the Benedetti Foundation’s three-week long dive into the relationship between instrument, brain and body
