All United-Strings-of-Europe articles
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Review
United Strings of Europe: Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovskian favourites rendered fresh through pliant performances
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Blogs
‘Throw, snatch, shower, cascade’: How United Strings of Europe combines string playing with jugglers
Music director and violinist Julian Azkoul shares what it’s like to perform with live-action jugglers in a new work exploring social and artistic recovery
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Video
Caroline Shaw’s ‘And the swallow’
United Strings of Europe perform Julian Azkoul’s arrangement of Shaw’s vocal score inspired by refugee and humanitarian crises
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United Strings of Europe performs Mendelssohn
The string ensemble perform an arrangement of Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in F minor, II Allegro assai
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Focus
‘The repertoire is about transformation, change or loss’: United Strings of Europe
Artistic director of United Strings of Europe Julian Azkoul shares the motivation behind the arrangments featured on the ensemble’s latest album Renewal
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Video
Send back the echo
United Strings of Europe perform ‘send back the echo’ - a reflection on the alienation faced by the deaf community and people of colour within music, culture and the arts. It is inspired by the letters of Beethoven revealing his sense of passion, fear and joy as he reconciled ...