All Henning-Kraggerud articles
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ReviewConcert review: Henning Kraggerud (violin) Ljubica Stojanovic (piano)
Tim Homfray visits London’s Wigmore Hall for the performance on 10 January 2022
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VideoHenning Kraggerud performs Mozart Violin Concerto no.4
Kraggerud directs the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra in this performance from 2015
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FocusHenning Kraggerud: Life Lessons
The Norwegian violinist and composer explores the importance of finding a work’s inner meaning when creating one’s musical voice
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VideoHenning Kraggerrud plays a Guarneri ‘Del Gesù’
In this music video the Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerrud plays the Guarneri Del Gesù violin from 1744 (the last year of the luthier’s life) – the violin featured in The Strad calendar 2021. Read: Pride of Norway: The Strad calendar 2021
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FocusNew UK artist management agency launched
String players including Francesca Dego (pictured), Henning Kraggerud and Laura van der Heijden will be represented by the new firm
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Video'Winter' from Vivaldi's Four Seasons - III: Allegro - Henning Kraggerud, Arctic Philharmonic
This live recording of Henning Kraggerud and the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra is interspersed with footage of Kraggerud at Fjellheisen, near Tromsø in the Norwegian Arctic Circle, one of the orchestra’s bases. The complete Four Seasons and four of Kraggerud’s own compositions were released on Simax Classics in 2017. ...
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FocusVilde Frang on the mentors who steered her from talented teen to fully-fledged artist
In this extract from her December issue cover story, the Norwegian violinist discusses learning that raw talent and the pleasure of music making need a solid technical backing. Interview by Charlotte Gardner
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VideoA six-string custom viola played by Henning Kraggerud
In this video, Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud amd jazz pianist Bugge Wesseltoft perform an inprovisation on a folk tune. Kraggerud is playing his custom-made ‘viola concorda’. ‘I was longing for a sound that I couldn’t produce, so I ordered a new instrument from Ariane Becker,’ he writes. ‘Listen to our ...
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ReviewHenning Kraggerud: Between the Seasons
The Strad Issue: December 2017Description: A cool Nordic wind blows through these SeasonsMusicians: Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra/Henning Kraggerud (violin) Works: VIVALDI The Four Seasons; KRAGGERUD Preghiera, Postlude in B flat minor (Equinox), The last leaf – Magnus in Memoriam, Victimae Paschali Catalogue Number: SIMAX PSC1356 This ...
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VideoHenning Kraggerud plays Vivaldi's winter in the Arctic circle
In this video, Henning Kraggerud and the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra play the first movement of Vivaldi’s ‘Winter’ from The Four Seasons. Kraggerud’s recording of the full cycle, along with his own companion pieces, was released earlier this year. The exterior scenes featuring Kraggerud were filmed near Tromsø, in north ...
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VideoHenning Kraggerud - Victimae Paschali
Henning Kraggerud and the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra perform an arrangement of Kraggerud’s own Victimae Paschali recorded in Tromsø Cathedral
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NewsMenuhin Competition announces programme for 2018 event in Geneva
Taking place from 12 to 22 April 2018 the competition features 44 international entries as well as a festival of concerts and masterclasses
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VideoHenning Kraggerud's Musical Calendar
In this video, recorded over the course of 2016, Norwegian violinist and composer Henning Kraggerud and his then nine-year-old daughter Alma play his Musical Calendar. Composed as a Christmas gift to friends and family in 1992, the Musical Calendar features a duet for each month of the year. All the ...
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NewsChristian Tetzlaff and Daniel Hope among 2017 ECHO Klassik winners
German classical music recording awards ceremony will take place at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg in October
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ReviewMozart: Violin Concertos: no.3 in G major K216; no.4 in D major K218; no.5 in A major K219 ‘Turkish’
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: September 2016 Description: Natural, spontaneous Mozart from Kraggerud and his Norwegian players Musicians: Henning Kraggerud (violin), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Composer: Mozart Catalogue number: NAXOS 8.573513 If Henryk ...
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NewsLost’ Halvorsen violin concerto unearthed in Canada
The work is believed to have remained undiscovered since 1909
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ReviewKraggerud: Equinox
The Strad Issue: November 2015Description: Around the world in 24 pieces – and all 24 major and minor keysMusicians: Henning Kraggerud (violin/leader) Arctic Philharmonic Chamber OrchestraComposer: KraggerudNorwegian violinist and composer Henning Kraggerud’s latest disc takes some explaining. It’s a collaboration with Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder, author of ...
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NewsHenning Kraggerud named Royal Northern College of Music International Violin Chair
The Norwegian artist takes up his role with the UK institution in September
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Review
Last Spring
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Jazz takes on traditional and composed melodies from a resourceful violinistMusicians: Henning Kraggerud (violin/viola/viola concorda) Bugge Wesseltoft (piano)Composer: Kraggerud & Wesseltoft Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud seems to move freely between solo and chamber music, between standard repertoire and new commissions. This album ...