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ArticleViolinist Roman Kim performs his own arrangement of Bach's Air
Virtuosic violinist Roman Kim demonstrates some impressive left-hand pizzicato skills in his contrapuntal arrangement of Bach's Air on the G string for solo violin, published by Baerenreiter.Read The Strad's 7 pointers for perfect pizzicato and violinist Jennifer Pike's blog on pizzicato technique.Subscribe to The Strad or download our ...
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ArticleViolinist Nigel Kennedy performs Purple Haze
British violinist Nigel Kennedy performs his own arrangement of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze.Read The Strad's interview with Kennedy on Bach, Hendrix and why he thinks music students should skip college.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase back ...
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ArticleViktoria Mullova performs Bartók's Violin Concerto no.2
Viktoria Mullova performs Bartók's Violin Concerto no.2 with Daniel Harding conducting The Mahler Chamber Orchestra.Watch Mullova perform Bach's Chaconne.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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ArticleYo-Yo Ma performs Elgar's Cello Concerto
Yo-Yo Ma performs the first movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim in 1997. Read 9 opinions on performance and career by cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free ...
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ArticleSvante Henryson performs an ice cello at Norway's Ice Music Festival
One time the pegs froze and when I tried to tune the cello they split into pieces' Svante Henryson gives an admirably accurate performance on his ice cello at Norway's Ice Music Festival - while wearing padded gloves! Skip to 3:27 to see his performance. Read more ...
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Article12-year-old violinist Daniel Lozakovitj performs Saint-Saëns's Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovitj, who at the age of 13 has signed to British agency Enticott Music Management, gave an impressively mature and polished performance Saint-Saëns's Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso at the age of 12 with the Talich Philharmonia Prague Orchestra on New Year's Day 2014.The young artist, ...
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ArticleCellist Mstislav Rostropovich performs Popper's Dance of the Elves
Legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich sets his fingers flying in Popper's fiendishly fast Dance of the Elves. Watch Rostropovich give a masterclass on Dvorák's Cello Concerto. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here. ...
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BlogsViolinist Eric Silberger describes recording Paganini with layered variations
The musician recounts the complicated process of recording the audio and video for his ambitious project to capture all the variations of Paganini's Caprice no.24 simultaneously. Watch the video below.
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BlogsRecording solo violin music is a daunting task
Tamsin Waley-Cohen's new album of solo works by Bartók, Penderecki, Benjamin, Carter and Kurtág pushed the violinist to the physical and emotional extremes
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ArticleJeff Bradetich performs Elgar's Cello Concerto on double bass
University of North Texas College of Music professor Jeff Bradetich gives a powerful performance of Elgar's Cello Concerto first movement on double bass with pianist Anastasia Markina.Bradetich gives tips for bow transitions at the frog in The Strad's April 2015 issue Technique section, out now.Subscribe to The Strad ...
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ArticleCellist Mstislav Rostropovich performs Tchaikovsky's Andante Cantabile
Mstislav Rostropovich performs Tchaikovsky's Andante Cantabile with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1989. Watch the great cellist give a masterclass on Dvorák's Cello Concerto at the Kronberg Academy. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase ...
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ArticleViolinist Eric Silberger performs Paganini's Caprice no.24 with layered variations
Ever wondered what all the variations of Paganini's 24th Caprice might sound like played at the same time? In a world first, violinist Eric Silberger performs the work with all variations layered together. The video was produced and shot by Lara St John.Subscribe to The Strad or download ...
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ArticleViolinist performs while suspended upside down from bridge
Félix Analís performs his violin while suspended upside down from a bridge in Xalapa, Mexico.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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ArticleDigital representation of Bach's First Cello Suite
One of a series of experiments by Magnatune, this animated video represents the cellist's bowing and its relationship to the musical line in the Prelude of Bach's First Cello Suite.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single ...
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ArticleDavid and Igor Oistrakh perform Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante
David Oistrakh and his son Igor Oistrakh perform Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante viola and violin parts respectively with the Moscow Philharmonic conducted by Yehudi Menuhin.Watch David Oistrakh perform Bach's Double Concerto with Yehudi Menuhin.Read about David Oistrakh and Joseph Szigeti's 's influence on Prokofiev's violin concertos and sonatas in ...
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ArticleNikolaj Znaider performs Bach's Partita no.2 Sarabande
The Strad's March 2015 cover star, Nikolaj Znaider, performs the Sarabande from Bach's Solo Violin Partita no.2.The violinist talks about the importance of practising Bach and basics in his blog for The Strad.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. ...
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ArticlePatricia Kopatchinskaja performs Manuel de Falla and Heinz Holliger
Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs Manuel de Falla's 'Jota' from Suite Populaire Espagnole and Heinz Holliger's Das Kleine Irgendwas, which features spoken dialogue and an array of vocalisations, in November 2014.Kopatchinskaja contributes a Practice Diary to The Strad's January issue.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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FocusFree sheet music: Joachim's Violin Romance in B flat edited by Itzhak Rashkovsky
Royal College of Music professor Rashkovsky offers advice on recreating the spirit of the great playera in this charming piece by the 19th-century virtuoso. Download the score as two PDFs at the bottom of the article
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ArticleChristopher Walken shares a Pablo Casals anecdote in the film A Late Quartet
Casals emphasised the good stuff. He encouraged. As for the rest, leave that to the morons, who judge by counting faults. 'I can be grateful,' he said, 'for one singular phrase, one transcendent moment''Christopher Walken describes a meeting with the great cellist Pablo Casals during a scene in ...
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FocusFree sheet music: James Ehnes's cadenzas to the early Mozart violin concertos
The violinist describes the process behind writing his own cadenzas for Mozart’s First and Second Concertos. Download the scores as a PDF at the bottom of the article