All Sibelius-Violin-Concerto articles
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaud Powell and Sibelius: how the violinist championed the composer's Violin Concerto
Violin virtuoso Maud Powell was the first American performer to recognise and champion the genius of Sibelius’s epic Violin Concerto in D minor, in spite of the initial scepticism of some US critics. Karen A. Shaffer reveals the mutual respect and friendship that made it possible
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ReviewReview round-up: BBC Proms 2021
Peter Quantrill attends the cream of the strings crop during this year’s Proms season at the Royal Albert Hall
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ReviewConcert review: Augustin Hadelich (violin) Danish National Symphony Orchestra/Manfred Honeck
Andrew Mellor hears the performance at Copenhagen’s DR Concert Hall on 27 November 2020
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VideoHilary Hahn plays the Sibelius Violin Concerto with no accompaniment
In this video, part of the series ‘Hahn Solo’, in which Hilary Hahn performs the solo violin part of some of her favourite concertos with no piano or orchestral accompaniment, the violinist plays Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. She hopes that, by hearing the parts separately, the audience will pick up on ...
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NewsRenaud Capuçon withdraws due to illness. Emmanuel Tjeknavorian steps in
The 24-year-old Austrian violinist will perform the Sibelius concerto for three dates with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC
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FocusLeonidas Kavakos on his ever-deepening relationship with the Sibelius Concerto
In this article from January 2016, a quarter century after the Greek violinist made his pioneering recording of the Sibelius Concerto alongside its original version, he talks to Andrew Mellor about his relationship with the work
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NewsNancy Zhou wins $50,000 first prize at International Music Competition Harbin
American violinist, 25, adds the Chinese accolade to a number of recent competition successes
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FocusMasterclass: Leonidas Kavakos on the Sibelius Violin Concerto
The Finnish composer put all his knowledge as symphonic writer and frustrated violinist into this great, elemental work. First published in The Strad’s January 2008 issue, Leonidas Kavakos’s masterclass explains how to do it justice
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ArticleChristian Tetzlaff violin masterclass: Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47
You use an arm vibrato, but I think you should add a hand vibrato to your repertoire - the piece needs to sound like an old man with lots of body, more relaxed' Christian Tetzlaff gives a masterclass on Sibelius' Violin Concerto in D minor at the ...