All Sarasate articles
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News‘The yellow violin’: Cremona’s Museo del Violino to display Sarasate’s 1724 Stradivari
The exhibition ‘Sarasate, il violino dei virtuosi’ will mark the instrument’s 300th anniversary
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Premium ❘ FeatureStradivari 1713 ‘Boissier, Sarasate’ Violin: Sarasate’s Red Violin
One of the most admired instruments ever made by Antonio Stradivari, the ‘Boissier, Sarasate’ is in an excellent state of preservation. Roberto Jardón Rico examines the violin and its best-known owner, the Spanish virtuoso Pablo Sarasate
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ReviewHilary Hahn: Dvořák, Ginastera, Sarasate
An Argentine concerto steals the show in this post-lockdown project
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NewsViolinist uncovers previously unpublished work by Sarasate
’Preludio’ was the only work for solo violin by Pablo de Sarasate and has been revised and edited by Spanish violinist Manuel Guillén
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FocusSarasate’s thoughts on New York
During a two-year concert tour of America, violinist Pablo Sarasate corresponded with his adoptive mother Amélie de Lassabathie in Paris. His surviving letters have been translated for the first time into English by Nicholas Sackman and Bastien Terraz, who present a digest of their contents
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VideoEllinor D'Melon performs Sarasate's Introduction et Tarantelle
Eighteen-year-old Cuban/Jamaican violinist Ellinor D’Melon plays Pablo de Sarasate’s Introduction et tarantelle op.43 with pianist Vadim Gladkov at the Sony Auditorium in Madrid, Spain.
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ReviewWandy Tworek: The Danish Violin Wizard
A wonderful historical reminder of a 20th-century Danish whiz
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VideoPablo de Sarasate's violins. A short documentary with live performances
Nicole Crespo O’Donoghue visits the Sarasate museum in Pamplona, Spain, and plays the great virtuoso’s Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin, as well as taking a close look at a Gand & Bernardel which was his graduation prize from the Paris Conservatoire.
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VideoKyung Wha Chung plays Sarasate's Caprice Basque op.24
A brief interview followed by a performance by Kyung Wha Chung, aged 22, in her first British TV appearance in 1970. Chung’s big break in the UK had come earlier that year, when she substituted for Itzhak Perlman in a concert with the London Symphony Orchestra to great acclaim, leading ...
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ArticleSarah Chang performs Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen aged 19
Sarah Chang gives a showstopping performance of Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen at the age of 19 in 1999. Read: Divide your practice into hour-long chunks, says violinist Sarah Chang Read: What do violinists Sarah Chang and Hilary Hahn keep inside their instrument cases? Watch: When they were young - ...
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ReviewVirtuoso. Works for violin and piano by Britten, Dohnányi, Dvorák, Elgar, Falla, Paganini, Sarasate, Strauss, Stravinsky, Tárrega, Tchaikovsky and Wieniawski
The Strad Issue: July 2016 Description: Kavakos displays his technical prowess in a programme of encore pieces Musicians: Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Enrico Pace (piano) Composer: Britten, Dohnányi, Dvorák, Elgar, Falla, Paganini, Sarasate, Strauss, Stravinsky, Tárrega, Tchaikovsky, ...
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ReviewThe Soul of Lady Harmsworth: Violin solos by Ernst, Paganini, Sarasate, Tchaikovsky and Wieniawski
The Strad Issue: May 2016Description: Encore works finely performed on a beautiful instrumentMusicians: Kristóf Baráti (violin) Gábor Farkas (piano)Composer: Ernst; Paganini; Sarasate; Tchaikovsky; WieniawskiKristóf Baráti performs this mixed bag of violin encores with striking technical facility, innate musicality and fearless panache. His accounts of Sarasate’s Romanza andaluza ...
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ReviewBruch: Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor. Lalo: Symphonie espagnole. Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen
The Strad Issue: March 2016Description: Evergreens enhanced by Capuçon’s purity and uncanny accompanimentMusicians: Renaud Capuçon (violin) Orchestre de Paris/Paavo JärviComposer: Bruch; Lalo; SarasateIn an opulently engineered recording with a generous amount of reverberation, Renaud Capuçon and Paavo Järvi ensure that the Lalo swashes its buckler with plenty ...
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ArticleViolinist Augustin Hadelich performs Sarasate's Zapateado
Violinist Augustin Hadelich performs Sarasate's Spanish Dance, op.23 no.2 'Zapateado' with pianist Akira Eguchi. The violinist has won the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category at the 58th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles - his first Grammy.
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ReviewThe Butterfly Lovers. Chen Gang/He Zhanhao: ‘The Butterfly Lovers’ Violin Concerto. Kreisler: Tambourin chinois. Ma Sicong: Nostalgia from Inner Mongolia Suite. Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen. Tchaikovsky:
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: October 2015Description: Lu Siqing’s second ‘Butterfly Lovers’ – with Chinese instrumentsMusicians: Lu Siqing (violin) Taipei Chinese Orchestra/Chung Yiu-KwongComposer: Chen Gang/He Zhanhao, Kreisler, Ma Sicong, Sarasate, Tchaikovsky, Trad, WieniawskiThe ‘Butterfly Lovers’ Concerto is, along with the ‘Yellow River’ Piano Concerto, probably the best-known ...
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ArticleViolinist Nemanja Radulović performs Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy
Nemanja Radulović, who has been named Violin Newcomer of the Year at the 2015 ECHO Klassik awards, performs Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra at Thétre Antique d'Orange in France. The 30-year-old Serbian signed an international contract with DG at the beginning of 2014. ...
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BlogsViolinist James Ehnes performs Sarasate aged 13
The virtuoso demonstrates an impressive technique in a clip from 1989
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ReviewFive Decades of Treasured Performances. Works by Barber, Bartók, Beethoven, A. Benjamin, Bloch, Brahms, Brustad, Chausson, Chopin, Debussy, Fauré, Gershwin, Grieg, Kreisler, Mendelssohn, Nín, Paradis,
The Strad Issue: August 2015Description: A celebration of an under-sung violinist now in her eightiesMusicians: Camilla Wicks (violin) various artistsComposer: Barber, Bartók, Beethoven, A. Benjamin, Bloch, Brahms, Brustad, Chausson, Chopin, Debussy, Fauré, Gershwin, Grieg, Kreisler, Mendelssohn, Nín, Paradis, Ravel, Sarasate, Scărlătescu, Schubert, Shostakovich, R. Strauss, Tailleferre, Tchaikovsky, ...
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ArticleJoshua Bell and Philippe Quint perform Sarasate's Navarra
Violinists Joshua Bell and Philippe Quint have fun performing Sarasate's Navarra in a private concert.Watch Bell's second Washington DC Metro performance, which drew large crowds in October 2014, following his anonymous and less successful busking experiment in 2007.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part ...
