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ArticleYehudi Menuhin performs Bach at the age of 69
Yehudi Menuhin performs the Prelude from Bach's Solo Violin Partita no.3 in 1985 at the age of 69. The Strad's May 2016 issue, celebrating the life of Yehudi Menuhin, is out now - download on desktop computer or through The Strad App.
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ArticleViolinist Frank Peter Zimmermann performs Bach's Chaconne
Frank Peter Zimmermann talks in The Strad's April 2016 issue about revisiting the Mozart Violin Concertos on disc, 20 years after his breakthrough recording - download on desktop computer or buy in print Read The Strad’s 7 ways to play perfect chords and see how other great violinists tackled the ...
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ArticleParody video: how to be a classical musician
Step 4: Practise....for the rest of your life''Step 8: Avoid acquiring a pretentious European accent'CBC Music presents a tongue-in-cheek video guide on how to be a classical musician, produced by IFHT.Watch: Opera Five spoofs Air Canada’s musical instrument policy
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ArticleViolinist Anne Akiko Meyers performs with broken foot
Anne Akiko Meyers suffered a fall on Friday while walking with her children, just a few hours before she was due to give her second of three performances of Mason Bates’s Violin Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington.The violinist, who believed at ...
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ArticleCellist Ralph Kirshbaum gives Haydn masterclass
You should play with a feeling of improvisation, as this is a cadenza. At the moment it feels too self-conscious'Ralph Kirshbaum gives a masterclass on Haydn's Cello Concerto in D for Play With A Pro Music Academy. The full 42-minute video can be downloaded here.Watch: Cellist Ralph Kirshbaum ...
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BlogsIt’s the taking part that counts’: Are competitions always defined by results?
This year’s Menuhin Competition promoted a ‘non-competitive atmosphere of learning and exchange’, but how true was this for the performers, asks Charlotte Smith
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Article12-year-old Yesong Sophie Lee gives 2016 Menuhin Competition winning performance
12-year-old Yesong Sophie Lee gives her winning performance in the 2016 Menuhin Competition Junior Finals at London's Royal Academy of Music.The young violinist leads the Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra as soloist in Summer from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and also performs the world premiere of the new commission for ...
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Article20-year-old Yu-Ting Chen performs at Menuhin Competition 2016
20-year-old violinist Yu-Ting Chen performs in the 2016 Menuhin Competition Senior Semi-Finals.Her programme features the first movement of Bartók’s Solo Sonata, the Adagio con espressione from Beethoven’s String Trio op.9 no.3, Enescu’s Impromptu Concertant and Szymanowski's Nocturne and Tarantella.Watch: 11-year-old Samuel Tan performs at Menuhin Competition 2016Read: Menuhin ...
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FocusPostcard from the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition
For the first time in its 36-year history, a UK player took the first prize at the Isle of Man competition. Tully Potter reports on the week-long event
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ArticleYesong Sophie Lee performs at Menuhin Competition 2016
12-year-old violinist Yesong Sophie Lee performs in the 2016 Menuhin Competition Junior Semi-Finals.Her programme features the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata no.8, two movements from Dvorák's Terzetto in C, and Waxman's Carmen Fantasy.Watch: 11-year-old Samuel Tan performs at Menuhin Competition 2016Read: Menuhin Competition 2016 reveals five Junior Finalists
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Article16-year-old Ziyu He performs at Menuhin Competition 2016
16-year-old violinist Ziyu He performs in the 2016 Menuhin Competition Senior Semi-Finals.His programme features the first movement of Bartók's Solo Sonata, the Adagio con espressione from Beethoven's String Trio op.9 no.3, Enescu's Impromptu Concertant and Paganini's Variation 'Nel cor piu non mi sento'.Watch: 11-year-old Samuel Tan performs at ...
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Article12-year-old Yeyeong Jin performs at Menuhin Competition 2016
12-year-old violinist Yeyeong Jin performs in the 2016 Menuhin Competition Junior Semi-Finals.Her programme features the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata no.8, the Scherzo from Dvorák's Terzetto and Wieniawski's Variations on an Original Theme.Watch: 11-year-old Samuel Tan performs at Menuhin Competition 2016Read: Menuhin Competition 2016 names 10 violinists through ...
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Article11-year-old Samuel Tan performs at Menuhin Competition 2016
11-year-old Samuel Tan, youngest competitor in the 2016 Menuhin Competition, performs in the first round of the Junior Division.His programme features the first movement of Bach's Second Violin Concerto, the first movement of Grieg's Sonata no.1, Wieniawski's Etude-Caprice op.18, no.4 and Enescu's Ballade.Read: Menuhin Competition 2016 names 10 ...
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ArticleViolist Yuri Bashmet in tailpiece disaster
Violist Yuri Bashmet reacts with admirable calm and humour when his tailpiece detaches itself from his instrument mid-performance. Watch: Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt in page-turning disaster Watch: A bow hair catastrophe
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ArticleViolinist Frank Peter Zimmermann performs Ysaÿe's Sonata no.3 Ballade
A young Frank Peter Zimmermann makes short work of the Ballade from Ysaÿe's Sonata no.3. The violinist discusses re-recording the Mozart violin concertos, 20 years after his breakthrough recording cycle, in The Strad’s April 2016 issue – download on desktop computer or through The Strad App. Watch: ...
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ArticleMaxim Vengerov performs on a 1740 Guarneri del Gesù - Menuhin Competition 2016 Junior First Prize
Maxim Vengerov performs Ernst's The Last Rose of Summer on a Guarneri del Gesù c.1740 violin, previously played by Hungarian violinist and conductor Sándor Végh. The instrument will be loaned to the winner of the 2016 Menuhin Competition Junior Category for two years by Florian Leonhard Fine ...
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ArticleThe Strad Technique: Michael Frischenschlager’s Violin Scale System Part 2
Michael Frischenschlager, professor emeritus at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, explains Part 2 of his two-octave violin scale and arpeggio system, as featured in The Strad's December 2015 issue. In this exercise the focus is on shifting - playing two-octave scales, arpeggios, dominant and diminished 7ths on ...
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NewsViolist sues Royal Opera House over hearing damage
Chris Goldscheider claims his hearing was ruined by loud brass instruments during rehearsals for Die Walküre in 2012
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FocusBach should only be played as an encore in special circumstances, says violinist Arabella Steinbacher
The Strad asks six international solo violinists what the encore tradition means to them, and to reveal their personal favourites
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NewsElmar Oliveira launches new International Violin Competition
The inaugural Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition will be held in January and February 2017 at Lynn University, Florida