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VideoMusical pictionary with Hilary Hahn
TwoSet Violin pit their pictionary skills against Hilary Hahn Read: TwoSet Violin make a return Read: Brett Yang of TwoSet Violin to take a break Watch: TwoSet Violin present ten types of musicians during quarantine
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Auner Quartett plus colleagues play Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge
In this fundraising initiative from the Wiener Konzerthaus the Auner Quartett leads a string orchestra of some of Austria’s concertmasters and leaders in a performance of Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, under the baton of Emmanuel Tjeknavorian. Among the instruments being played are those by Stradivari, Guadagnini, Guarneri, Sanctus Serafin, Geissenhof, ...
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Maxim Vengerov plays Ernst’s Variations on ‘The Last Rose of Summer’
In this video Maxim Vengerov plays Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst’s The Last Rose of Summer - Polyphonic Study no.6, written in 1864. Read: Maxim Vengerov launches new educational website
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Why we should all be violists
Violist and teacher Hsin-Yun Huang makes the case for her instrument of choice
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Video of Leopold Auer and Alexander Glazunov from 1912
This video footage, filmed in St Petersburg in 1912, shows the composer Alexander Glazunov and violinist Leopold Auer standing together. There is also an appearance from the Russian/Soviet pianist Leonid Nikolayev. Read: Leopold Auer profiled in the July 1907 issue of The Strad
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Sophie Rosa on recording the world premiere of Montgeroult’s Violin Sonata in A minor Op.2
Violinist Sophie Rosa talks about her new recording, which features the Violin Sonata In A minor, Op.2 No.3 by Hélène de Montgeroult, a French composer who was working around the turn of the 19th century and was the first ever female professor to be appointed at the Paris Conservatoire. ...
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Concert halls safe at 50 per cent capacity, reports German study
The experiments at the Dortmund Konzerthaus suggest a checkerboard-style seating arrangement would be sufficient to keep audience safe from Covid-19
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Ivry Gitlis performs Berg’s Violin Concerto
Violinist Ivry Gitlis, who died on 24 December 2020 at the age of 98, performs Berg’s 1935 Violin Concerto ’To the Memory of an Angel’ with WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne conducted by Hans Vonk. Read: 8 opinions on performance and career by violinist Ivry Gitlis Read: Ivry ...
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What to do if your violin pegs keep slipping or sticking
Korinthia Klein presents a simple player’s guide to violin maintenance, without encroaching on luthiers’ territory
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’I don’t feel at all guilty about tinkering with the "classical canon" – David LePage
Violinist David Le Page explains how he found the connections between Rameau and Radiohead, Schubert and The Smiths through arrangements for Orchestra of the Swan’s new album Timelapse
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Carducci String Quartet plays a Shostakovich string quartet - with drums
The Carducci String Quartet (violinists Matthew Denton and Michelle Fleming, violist Eoin Schmidt-Martin and cellist Emma Denton) plays a new rendition of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No.7, featuring Cristián Tamblay on the drums. Watch: Working from home: Carducci Quartet perform Philip Glass’s String Quartet no.2 Watch: Carducci Quartet performs ...
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Bach at the National Palace Museum, Taiwan: highlighting the treasures of 1742
In this video, violinist Paul Huang plays Bach at the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Huang says, ‘This video highlights the dialogue between three important subjects: a 1742 Guarneri ’del Gesù’ violin on loan from the Stradivari Society, an extraordinary Vase Within Vase from the Chin Dynasty around 1742 ...
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The Pandemic Paganini Project: how I decided to fill in the blanks of 2020
When the arts were extinguished by the pandemic, orchestral violinist Sarah Atwood was galvanized into creating a new musical pathway for herself – and she learnt a lot from doing it, as she explains here
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Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Mozart in a modern art museum during lockdown
The German violinist, together with violinist Linus Roth, violist Vladimir Babeshko and cellist Lionel Martin, plays the Allegro molto from Mozart’s String Quartet No.2 in D major, KV155 at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. Read: Anne-Sophie Mutter signs with new US agent Read: Anne-Sophie Mutter starts concert ...
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Song of the Birds, featuring Mischa Maisky, Han Bin Yoon, Jan Vogler and Jens Peter Maintz
In this closing concert from the 2020 Brussels Cello Festival, Mischa Maisky, Han Bin Yoon, Jan Vogler and Jens Peter Maintz perform the Song of the Birds , made popular by Pau Casals, in an arrangement for cello quartet by Sungmin Ahn. Read: Adagietto from Mahler’s Symphony No. 5: ...
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Leadership and diplomacy: how to be a good orchestral concertmaster
A piece from our archive in which former concertmaster John Georgiadis, who died on Tuesday, tells Julian Haylock his memories of the London Symphony Orchestra
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Dvořák’s ‘Songs My Mother Taught Me’, performed by Camille Thomas
French cellist Camille Thomas performs an arrangement of Antonin Dvořák’s ‘Songs My Mother Taught Me’ at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium.
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LSO concertmaster John Georgiadis dies aged 81
The violinist led the LSO for two periods, between 1965 and 1979, before turning to conducting
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The Twelve Days of (a Cellist’s) Christmas
On the twelfth day of Christmas we bring to you: the Twelve Days of (a Cellist’s) Christmas, featuring 12 cellists from all around the world, including: The Cello Doll (aka Carolyn Regula), Sarah Chaffee, Stephanie Jaimes, Sugar Cello, That Cello Guy, Dave Eggar, Kaitlin Findlay, Lydia Cellist, Peter Sachon, ...
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Learning at the speed of childhood
A willingness to engage in challenges outside of our ability level and to embrace making mistakes can help adults to learn as efficiently as young children, argues clarinettist and performance psychology researcher Christine Carter
