All Mozart articles – Page 7
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Mozart: String Quartets: in G major K387, in B flat major K458 ‘Hunt’
The Strad Issue: July 2016 Description: An individual approach to two of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ Quartets Musicians: Hagen Quartet Composer: Mozart Catalogue number: MYRIOS MYR 017 Just like skinning a cat, there are many ...
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Huberman Festival 1982. Bach: Double Concerto in D minor BWV1043. Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E flat major K364. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Concerto grosso in B minor op.3 no.10
The Strad Issue: April 2016Description: Star string players gather to celebrate Huberman’s 100thMusicians: Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Shlomo Mintz, Ida Haendel, Ivry Gitlis (violins) Pinchas Zukerman (violin/viola) Israel Philharmonic Orchestra/Zubin MehtaComposer: Bach; Mozart; VivaldiIn December 1982, to mark the centenary of the Israel Philharmonic’s founder Bronislaw Huberman, ...
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Violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann performs Mozart's Third Concerto
A youthful Frank Peter Zimmermann performs the first movement of Mozart's Third Violin Concerto conducted by Bernard Haitink. 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 ...
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The Strad April 2016 issue is out now
Twenty years after his breakthrough recording of the Mozart concertos, German violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann revisits the cycle on disc
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Mozart: Violin Concerto no.3 in G major K216; Piano Trio in E major K542. Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
The Strad Issue: March 2016Description: Classics reissued – and the Ravel Trio for the first time on silver discMusicians: Yehudi Menuhin (violin/director) Gaspar Cassadó (cello) Louis Kentner (piano) Bath Festival OrchestraComposer: Mozart; RavelThe old LP of the Ravel and Mozart trios introduced me to the works, more ...
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Ana Chumachenco gives Mozart violin cadenza masterclass
Play with virtuosity but with a cool head...'Kronberg Academy violin professor Ana Chumachenco gives a masterclass on the cadenza of Mozart's Third Violin Concerto.The full 120-minute video is available to buy as a download or DVD through the Masterclass Media Foundation.Watch: Maxim Vengerov on playing the violin like ...
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Mozart: Violin Sonatas: no.1 in C major K6, no.2 in D major K7, no.4 in G major K9, no.10 in B flat major K15, no.14 in D major K29, no.22 in A major K305, no.24 in F major K376, no.29 in A major K402
The Strad Issue: January 2017Description: Ibragimova and Tiberghien offer a second set of Mozart sonatasMusicians: Alina Ibragimova (violin) Cédric Tiberghien (piano)Composer: MozartCatalogue number: HYPERION CDA 68092 Alina Ibragimova is, in many ways, an ideal interpreter for this double disc of (mainly) early Mozart sonatas. Ibragimova’s interest in ...
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Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter rehearses Mozart with Boston Symphony Orchestra
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter rehearses the Presto from Mozart's Violin Concerto no.1 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall in September 2011. Watch: Anne-Sophie Mutter films her performance with a head cam
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The Strad Masterclass: Ray Chen on Mozart's Third Violin Concerto
What makes Mozart so difficult to play? It's finding that perfect balance between simplicity on one hand, and complexity on the other. Like being young and energetic, but having a mature and experienced sound' Ray Chen talks about finding a balance in Mozart - and compares his music to a ...
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The Strad January 2016 issue is out now
Leonidas Kavakos speaks about his ever-deepening relationship with the Sibelius Violin Concerto
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Video: Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts Mozart's Violin Concerto no.3
Conductor and early music pioneer Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who announced his retirement on Saturday 5 December, conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Mozart's Violin Concerto no.3 in G major K216, with soloist Gidon Kremer. Violinist Ray Chen will give a Masterclass on the first movement of this concerto in ...
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Rare Mozart letter sells for $217,000 at auction
The signed note was written around 1786 and was sold through Boston company RR Auction
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Mozart’s sister may have helped compose her brother’s works, scholar suggests
Professor Martin Jarvis claims to have discovered Maria Anna’s musical handwriting
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Ji Young Lim performs Mozart at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2015
Ji Young Lim performs Mozart's Fourth Violin Concerto at the 2015 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels - where she took home the €25,000 first prize.Ji Young Lim is one of five recent winners of international string competitions who talk about their strategies for success in The ...
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Impérial Oïstrakh! Works by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, Franck, Lalo, Mozart, Schubert and Wieniawski
The Strad Issue: August 2015Description: Complete works and extracts help to illustrate Oistrakh’s greatnessMusicians: David Oistrakh (violin) various artistsComposer: Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, Franck, Lalo, Mozart, Schubert and WieniawskiThis compilation seems designed for those Classic FM listeners who like ‘a bit of Mozart’. Four complete works, including the ...
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Violinist David Garrett performs Mozart aged 14
A barely recognisable David Garrett gives an assured performance of the third movement of Mozart's Third Violin Concerto at the age of 14 in 1994 with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne conducted by Heinrich Schiff. Watch the violinist performing Tartini’s Devil’s Trill Sonata. Subscribe to The Strad ...
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David Fulmer performs on Mozart's violin
It's incredible to think that Mozart used this not only as a violinist, but as a composer. On this very instrument he wrote and played his five violin concertos and the monumental masterpiece that is Sinfonia Concertante'Mozart's 300-year-old violin came the US in June 2013 for the first ...
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Violinist Boris Kuschnir gives Mozart masterclass
I need to hear the head, body and legs of each note...'Celebrated violin professor Boris Kuschnir gives a masterclass on Mozart's Fourth Violin Concerto at the Verbier Festival.The full 48-minute video is available to buy as a download or DVD through the Masterclass Media Foundation.Read Kuschnir's advice on ...
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Mozart: Violin Concerto no.5 in A major K219. Vieuxtemps: Violin Concerto no.4 in D minor
The Strad Issue: July 2015Description: Emotive playing from Hahn in 18th- and 19th-century concertosMusicians: Hilary Hahn (violin) Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen/Paavo JärviComposer: Mozart, VieuxtempsI have always warmed to the ardent and honest playing of Hilary Hahn. In many ways this disc does not disappoint. The Vieuxtemps Concerto is ...
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Oscar Shumsky: Legendary Treasures. Works by Bach, Beethoven, Buxtehude, Hindemith, Kreisler, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Tartini, Telemann and Wieniawski
The Strad Issue: June 2015Description: Historic recordings from a great American violinistMusicians: Oscar Shumsky (violin) Nadia Reisenberg, Carroll Hollister, Mario Bernardi, Leo Barkin, George Schick, Earl Wild, Frank Maus (piano) Lois Marshall, Erna Berger (sopranos) Maureen Forrester (contralto) James Melton (tenor) Bach Aria Group, CBC Orchestra, Al ...