Here Patricia Kopatchinskaja talks about playing Pierrot Lunaire, a project the violinist first conceived while she was unable to practise due to an arm injury. ‘All my life I’ve felt that I was Pierrot. Whenever I played the piece on my violin as a student which I I spoke the words in my head,’ says Kopatchinskaja, who performed the role just over a week ago with the Berlin Philharmonic, speaking and acting but also playing her violin.
Edward Bhesania hears the performance of Enescu, Poulenc, Bartok, Milhaud, Schoenfeld and Kopatchinskaja herself, at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on 24 September 2023
The violinist and cellist performed together as part of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Switzerland
A magnificent voyage of discovery from a musical maverick
Interviewed for The Strad August 2018, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter discusses Penderecki’s Second Violin Concerto, a work that harbours undiscovered secrets
In this film from 1962, Leonard Bernstein conducts cellist Zara Nelsova and the New York Philharmonic in a performance of Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo. Nelsova had a close relationship with the composer, who dedicated his three unaccompanied Cello Suites to her.
As Endellion Quartet violinist Andrew Watkinson prepares to lead the Guildhall String Ensemble, he tells us his favourite works for strings – and we put them in a convenient playlist. From 2019
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