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BlogsTen string premieres to look out for this festival season (with one Antipodean exception…)
It’s summer! Check out our list of ten premieres taking place at festivals across the world this season
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ReviewRound-up: String soloists at the 2023 BBC Proms
Peter Quantrill finds a wealth of riches in this year’s Proms season at the Royal Albert Hall
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NewsVirgin Trains refuses boarding to BBC Symphony Orchestra double bassist
Margarida Castro was prevented from travelling home following a BBC Proms concert after being told by the train guard that her instrument exceeded the maximum luggage size
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NewsStrings at The Proms: our pick of the programme, released today
We’ve scoured the listings of 90 concerts across eight weeks for string concertos and other highlights for Strad readers
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NewsLeonard Elschenbroich steps in to save BBC Proms premiere
Cellist steps in at two weeks’ notice to take on Brian Elias cello concerto from indisposed Natalie Clein
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BlogsViolinist Pekka Kuusisto's cheeky Proms encore
Violinist Pekka Kuusisto follows his BBC Proms performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in London's Royal Albert Hall on 5 August 2016 with a lively rendition of Finnish folk song My Darling Is Beautiful - featuring some cheeky lyrics.Kuusisto sings and and plays his instrument and eventually invites the ...
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ArticleCapuçon brothers - violinist Renaud and cellist Gautier - perform together at the BBC Proms
The Capuçon brothers - violinist Renaud and cellist Gautier - perform Handel-Halvorsen's Passacaglia as an encore at the BBC Proms in London's Royal Albert Hall in 2011. Read: ‘As a musician you never finish learning,’ says cellist Gautier Capuçon Watch: Gautier Capuçon performs Thaïs Meditation at the ...
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FocusThere is a tiger inside this instrument’: Sol Gabetta talks about her newly acquired cello
The Strad’s August 2016 cover star speaks about adjusting to playing a c.1725 Gofriller, after twelve years with her beloved Guadagnini
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NewsBBC Proms 2016 season revealed, including cello focus
The 122nd season takes place in London’s Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall over eight weeks
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ArticleNicola Benedetti performs Shostakovich's Gadfly Romance at the Proms
Violinist Nicola Benedetti, The Strad's September 2015 issue cover star, performs the Romance from Shostakovich's Gadfly Suite with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Last Night of the Proms 2012 in London.Watch Benedetti's bow go flying during a rehearsal with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Edinburgh.Subscribe to ...
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ArticleJames Ehnes performs Walton's Violin Concerto at The Proms 2014
James Ehnes performs Walton's Violin Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Thomas SøndergŠrd at the BBC Proms 2014 in London's Royal Albert Hall.Ehnes performs on the Antonio Stradivari 'Marsick' violin, 1715, as featured in The Strad's 2015 calendar, 'Violins of the Stars', on sale ...
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NewsYouth orchestra concertmaster, 18, loaned c.1685 ‘Sauret' Stradivarius violin
Roberto Ruisi, the 18-year-old concertmaster of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYOGB), will perform on the c.1685 ‘Sauret’ Stradivarius violin for the orchestra’s final three concerts this season. The instrument, valued at £1m, has been loaned by 83-year-old violinist and teacher John Ludlow, who in ...
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ArticleBBC to cut Nigel Kennedy 'apartheid' statement
The BBC has confirmed it will remove a statement made last week by violinist Nigel Kennedy at a Proms concert for its TV broadcast on 23 August. The statement, made from the stage of the Royal Albert Hall, came at the end of a concert by Kennedy and ...
