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The heart of Amadeus: Postcard from Zhuhai
Peter Quantrill hears Mozartians of the future competing in the violin category of the biennial Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians – by the shores of China’s Pearl River
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Making Sense Of The Senseless: Leila Josefowicz on B. A. Zimmermann’s violin concerto
As Leila Josefowicz explains, the unexpected twists and turns of B. A. Zimmermann’s Violin Concerto make it a rollercoaster worth riding. Tom Stewart finds out more
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Sentimental Work: Sheku Kanneh-Mason
For the British cellist, Elgar’s Cello Concerto brings back a wealth of memories from his earliest years studying the instrument – and of trying to play like Jacqueline du Pré
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We Are NY Phil: Associate Principal Viola Rebecca Young
We Are NY Phil, a video series featuring musicians of the Orchestra, brings you closer to Philharmonic musicians by focusing on their lives outside the concert hall and following the activities they are most passionate about. The second video of the series explores how humour plays a key role ...
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5 tips for viola players, by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra's Manchin Zhang
Manchin Zhang shares her wisdom on various aspects of playing the viola, from vibrato to body balance
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How I interpret Bach: Tomás Cotik on Treatises Sources, Numerology and the Doctrine of Affections
Ahead of his 2020 album release of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, the violinist continues his blog series, in which he discusses the contradictions between the opposing trends and traditions in Bach interpretation, and his personal solutions to them
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Benedetti Foundation Orchestra play ‘Intermezzo’ from Cavalleria Rusticana
Nicola Benedetti leads the Benedetti Foundation Orchestra
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Premiere of the month: Márton Illés’s Én-kör III
Patricia Kopatchinskaja to perform new work requiring ‘power, precision and virtuosity’
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Silkroad Ensemble performs Kinan Azmeh’s ‘Wedding’ at Tanglewood
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma came up with the idea of Silkroad, formerly named the Silk Road Project, in 1998, inspired by the historical Silk Road trading route that linked China with the West. The Silkroad Ensemble launched in 2000, comprising musicians from countries along this route. ‘We started as a ...
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Rachel Barton Pine and her daughter share two pieces from ‘Music by Black Composers’
In this video, violinist Rachel Barton Pine and her daughter, Sylvia Pine, visit WFMT, an FM radio station in Chicago, to inaugurate a new family-friendly request programme ‘Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice.’ Here they perform two works from forthcoming ‘Music by Black Composers Violin Volume 2’: ‘Such Thanks to Spirits’ ...
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Life Lessons: David Harrington
The American violinist recalls the path that led him to found the genre-defying Kronos Quartet
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Sentimental work: Rivka Golani on Michael Colgrass’ Chaconne
As well as giving the first performance of Michael Colgrass’s Chaconne , the Israeli violist provided the initial spark of inspiration – with the help of her own paintings
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Dutch violinist and musicologist Jaap Schröder dies aged 94
Schröder was a key figure in the revival of Baroque, Classical and early Romantic string playing
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TwoSetViolin: The Twelve Levels of Violin Playing
The musical double act abandon their usual hijinx in favour of something more serious for newbie violinists: a whistle-stop tour of what their violin-playing career could look like (with a bit of practice).
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‘I look up to the ceiling and suddenly notice the stucco’
Cellist Thomas Demenga on the illuminating power of ornamentation in Bach’s Cello Suites
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Kyung Wha Chung plays Dvořák’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra
In this tribute concert to Riccardo Muti from the 1980s, the violinist Kyung Wha Chung plays Dvořák’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Op 11, with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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Jupiter String Quartet plays Debussy’s String Quartet
In this video, the Jupiter String Quartet (violinists Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violist Liz Freivogel and cellist Daniel McDonough) plays Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, Op 10, at the Bowdoin International Music Festival on July 30, 2018.
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Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No 9, ‘Kreutzer’
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist Lambert Orkis perform Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No 9, ‘Kreutzer’ in this concert filmed at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris.
