All Kreisler articles
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ReviewJoo Yeon Sir: Solitude
A lockdown project combining solo violin music both mainstream and rare
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Renaud Capuçon: Un Violon à Paris
A tasteful and gorgeously performed collection of smooth violin sweetmeats
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Concert review: Esther Yoo (violin) Yekwon Sunwoo (piano)
Tim Homfray reports on the recital performance at London’s Wigmore Hall on 20 September 2021
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Janine Jansen: 12 Stradivari
Some first-class performances of much-recorded violin cornerstones
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Christian Li: Vivaldi, Zili, Kreisler, Massenet and Bazzini
Teenage violinist’s insightful and original debut augurs well for the future
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Sueye Park: Journey through a Century
Treasure trove of a solo recital spans a hundred years of violin music
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Francisco Fullana: Bach’s Long Shadow
Imaginative and sometimes wild take on Bach and his solo violin legacy
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Pierrot lunaire
Not just a violinist – PatKop’s singing alter ego is extraordinary
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Francesca Dego: Il Cannone
A dazzling and delightful recital played on Paganini’s own priceless ‘del Gesù’
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Video
The Strad Calendar 2021: Carlo Bergonzi ‘Kreisler’ violin 1735
The ‘Kreisler’s characteristically thin yet intensely coloured varnish is in abundance
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Jean-Guihen Queyras: Complices
A fabulously accomplished collection of encores from accomplices
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Dmitry Sitkovetsky: Hommage To Fritz Kreisler And Sergei Rachmaninoff
An endless song of praise to two master musicians
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Tessa Lark, Amy Yang: Fantasy
A violinist to watch – this Lark is most definitely on the ascent
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Ray Chen in concert: Tambourin Chinois
From Dutch broadcaster Avrotros comes this video of Ray Chen performing Kreisler’s Tambourin Chinois with Amsterdam Sinfonietta, lead by Candida Thompson. Filmed on 17 February 2019 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
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Heifetz plays Kreisler: Reccitativo and Scherzo, op.6
Fritz Kreisler’s Reccitativo and Scherzo op.6, sometimes referred to as the Scherzo-Caprice, is the great virtuoso’s only solo violin work. It was dediated to Eugène Ysaÿe. It is performed in this recording by Jascha Heifetz.
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From the archive: Kreisler’s pseudo-classics
In February 1935 Fritz Kreisler revealed that several of the pieces in his repertoire, formerly ascribed to such composers as Vivaldi and Tartini, were in fact written by him. The admission sent shockwaves throughout the music world – here M. Montagu-Nathan reacts in the March 1935 issue of The Strad ...
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Elena Urioste plays Fritz Kreisler's 'Preghiera'
Violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Tom Poster perform Fritz Kreisler’s Preghiera in the Style of Martini. Some of Kreisler’s best known works are pastiches, in the style of 18th-century composers, which he originally presented as discoveries before later admitting that he wrote them himself.
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Nikolaj Znaider discusses his Guarneri 'del Gesù'
In this video for the Czech Philharmonic, Nikolaj Znaider talks about the 1741 ‘Kreisler’ Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ which he plays on extended loan by the Royal Danish Theater through the Velux Foundation and the Knud Højgaard Foundation. The instrument was owned by legendary Austrian violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler ...
