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South London museum to display Stradivari violin and others for three years
A year after the Victoria & Albert Museum controversially closed its musical instruments gallery, 35 instruments from its collection have gone on display at the Horniman Museum in south London. The new display, entitled The Art of Harmony, includes the V&A's 1699 Stradivari violin, a 1686 baryton by Joachim Tielke, ...
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Luthiers wanted for BBC Scrapheap Orchestra documentary
The BBC wants a team of expert makers to transform junk and reclaimed materials into a full complement of orchestral instruments for a new documentary. The 90-minute film for BBC Four, entitled Scrapheap Orchestra, will follow the instrument making process and include a performance on the specially created instruments by ...
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Baroque ensemble uses crowd-funding to finance CD
An award-winning period instrument orchestra is using crowd-funding website WeDidThis to drum up financing for a new CD. The International Baroque Players is looking to raise £2,500 to fund the recording, which will feature violin concertos by Telemann and Heinichen alongside an unrecorded sonata for orchestra by Handel and a ...
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Neglected chamber pieces by UK composers to be performed again
Twelve overlooked chamber works by British composers have been chosen to receive performances as part of the Encore project by the Royal Philharmonic Society and BBC Radio 3. The twelve works were chosen from nearly 70 pieces nominated by artists, publishers and programmers. The pieces selected include Anthony Payne's ...
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Emerson Quartet signs recording contract with Sony after 24 years with DG
The Emerson Quartet has signed an exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical. The new deal brings to an end the ensemble's long relationship with Deutsche Grammophon, with whom the quartet has recorded more than 30 discs since 1987. The Emersons' first recording for Sony, set for release this November, ...
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Three arrested over stolen Stradivari violin
Police have arrested and charged a 30-year-old man and two boys aged 16 and 14 in connection with the theft of a Stradivari violin in London. The instrument, which is valued at £1.2m, was stolen from violinist Min-Jin Kym in a sandwich bar at Euston Station on 29 November. Two ...
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Swiss police arrest violin dealer Dietmar Machold
Violin dealer Dietmar Machold has been arrested in Switzerland. Swiss police acted on behalf of Austrian investigators, who want to extradite the German-born owner of Machold Rare Violins to Austria to face charges of fraud and misappropriation. Machold is now in custody in a Swiss jail as authorities in the ...
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More losers than winners in Arts Council England orchestral funding decisions
Major UK orchestras took a funding hit as Arts Council England (ACE) announced its long-awaited funding decisions and named the arts organisations on its new national portfolio. All orchestras, ballet and opera companies who were previously supported by ACE had their funding renewed, but the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, ...
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Will Cremonese violin making tradition get Unesco protection?
Violin making in Cremona and the pizzas of Naples head up Italy's shortlist of candidates for Unesco's 'intangible' cultural heritage list, according to a report in the Guardian. After Italy secured Unesco status for the Mediterranean diet last year (jointly with Spain, Greece and Morocco), the country is debating which ...
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YouTube orchestra racks up 33m hits
The finale concert of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra on 20 March clocked up 33m views on the video-sharing website. The event at Sydney Opera House drew more than three times the audience for U2's YouTube concert. There were 11.1m live streams of the orchestra's performance, which featured music by composers ...
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Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra cancels Korea visit
The Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra has cancelled a visit to South Korea amid concerns over the radiation risk from Japan. The orchestra was due to give two concerts at the Tongyeong International Music Festival, including tomorrow's opening concert. Despite assurances from Korean authorities that radiation from Japan would not affect Korea, ...
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Baroque violinist Dmitry Sinkovsky wins Telemann Competition
Dmitry Sinkovsky from Russia won first prize at the International Telemann Competition for historical stringed instruments in Magdeburg, Germany. The 30-year-old Baroque violin specialist received €7,500. Second prize went to Swiss Baroque violinist Anaïs Chen. Viola da gamba player Mathilde Vialle, from France, took third prize.
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New documentary on violinist Jascha Heifetz to receive premiere
A new film biography of violiniist Jascha Heifetz will have its premiere next month in Los Angeles. The documentary, Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler, includes unseen family home movies as well as interviews with former students, Heifetz biographers, and violinists including Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel and Itzhak Perlman. The 84-minute film ...
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English music label launches with recordings of violin sonatas
A new record label specialising in overlooked works by British composers has launched with a disc of violin works. EM Records' debut release features York Bowen's Violin Sonata alongside the world premiere recordings of the violin sonatas of Arthur Bliss and Henry Walford Davies. The performers are Rupert Luck and ...
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Japanese cellist Yuki Ito wins Windsor competition
Japanese cellist Yuki Ito won first prize at the Windsor Festival International String Competition. The 21-year-old, who studies with Alexander Boyarsky at the Royal College of Music in London, was awarded £5,000 plus a bow and concert engagements. Second prize went to Chinese violinist Jiafeng Chen, 24. Bulgarian cellist Michael ...
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Violinist Maxim Vengerov set for recital comeback
Three years after putting away his violin to focus on conducting, Maxim Vengerov is returning to the recital platform as a soloist. The 36-year-old will play Brahms's three Violin Sonatas with pianist Vag Papian at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels on 2 May. In an interview with Radio ...
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South Korean Dami Kim wins Japanese violin contest
South Korean violinist Dami Kim won first prize at the Munetsugu Angel Violin Competition in Nagoya, Japan. The 22-year-old, a student of Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory in Boston, won ¥500,000 (£3,800) and the loan of the 1697 'Rainville' Stradivari violin for two years. Hikaru Matsukawa from ...
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New Quay brothers film for violinist Alina Ibragimova
Alina Ibragimova is teaming up with influential filmmakers and animators the Brothers Quay for a programme of solo violin music at this year's Manchester International Festival. Ibragimova will play works by Berio, Bach, Biber and Bartók in a promenade performance, leading audiences of 100 around the Chetham's School of Music ...
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Success for El Sistema-style Scottish orchestra project
A classical music project targeting children from a historically deprived Scottish housing estate has the potential 'to achieve social transformation', according to a new report evaluating the scheme. The Big Noise orchestra programme was set up in the Raploch, Stirling, by Sistema Scotland in 2008, and has given more than ...
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LA Phil pulls Osvaldo Golijov violin concerto premiere
The Los Angeles Philharmonic has cancelled the world premiere of Osvaldo Golijov's Violin Concerto scheduled for 5 May. The work, co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, was to be performed by Leonidas Kavakos with conductor Gustavo Dudamel, but Golijov has said he will not be able to finish the ...
