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  WATCH LIVE: Concours de Genève viola finals

  The three viola finalists will perform the competition’s compulsory work, plus a concerto of their choice on 12 November

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  A lasting relationship: the Ariel Quartet performs Beethoven op.59 no.3

  The ensemble presents an al fresco performance of the third Rasumovsky quartet, as it releases its second instalment of complete Beethoven string quartet recordings

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  A tribute to Mr Menuhin: an encore performance from Edinburgh International Festival

  Nicola Benedetti, Alexander Sitkovetsky, NFM Leopoldinum and the festival’s Rising Stars present a spirited encore in honour of the legendary Yehudi Menuhin

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  ‘A vast expressive range’: violinist Stanislav Pronin performs Der Rosenkavalier on Heifetz’s violin

  Sponsored by Stanislav Pronin

  Discover Stanislav Pronin’s breathtaking new original composition – Fantasy on Themes from Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier – performed on the legendary 1736 ‘Heifetz’ Guarneri del Gesù

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  Anna Štube performs Ernest Kanitz’s Violin Sonata

  The 19-year-old violinist performs a work rarely heard, in her recording debut for the ARC Ensemble

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  Paganini’s Mosè Fantasy: bel canto and virtuosity on only one string

  Violinist Tomás Cotik provides a tutorial and performance on the famous work that only requires one string, ahead of an album release comprising Paganini’s works

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  Colin Alexander: from resembling to reassembling the human voice on the cello

  Colin Alexander reflects on what it means for a cello to sound like a voice, in light of new transcriptions of vocal works for the Early Chorus Cello Ensemble

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  A cello distortion rock-up: Zoë Martlew performs ‘G-lude’

  When a cello rocks out and sounds like an electric guitar: the cellist and composer shares some detailed insights on the extreme and experimental techniques at play in her work

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  Bach’s Sixth Suite Prelude on five-stringed baroque cello

  William Skeen shares an authentic Bach performance, ahead of appearances for Seattle Bach Festival this weekend

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  New video: Yo-Yo Ma and Icelandic choir perform ‘Earth Hymn’

  The performance of the work by Viktor Orri Árnason is a plea to the world from the edge of a changing planet

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  ‘These pieces are tied to our upbringing as a quartet’ - The Novo Quartet presents its debut album

  The Danish quartet tells The Strad what it learnt and loved about recording TRACK 1, which features Nielsen’s String Quartet no.1, Shostakovich’s String Quartet no.8 and a world premiere by Matias Vestergård

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  Five years on: the Sacconi Quartet’s pandemic-era performance of Jonathan Dove’s ‘Out of Time’

  The Strad offers an exclusive sneak peek at the Sacconi Quartet’s 4K remastered film of the work, ahead of Friday’s general release

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