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VideoHina & Fiona perform Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia for two violins
The work features on the sister-duo’s debut album, Dear to Us
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Video‘You feel the presence and breath of a fifth person’ - The Elmire Quartet on its debut ‘Rasumovsky’ Quartets album
The French quartet talks to The Strad about its experience tackling Beethoven’s monumental op.59 quartets in its debut album, Beyond the Limits
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Video’Unapologetic passion: Delirium Musicum presents ‘Danse Macabre’
The work features on the ensemble’s new album Cabinet of Curiosities, described as ‘an Advent calendar for listeners’
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VideoWATCH 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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VideoA 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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VideoA 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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VideoAnna 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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VideoA 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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VideoBach’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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VideoNew 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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Video‘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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VideoFive 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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VideoViolinist Maya Magub celebrates Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s 150th anniversary with ‘Valse Mauresque’
Magub performs alongside pianist Matthew Schellhorn, on a work that features on their new album of Coleridge Taylor’s Four Characteristic Waltzes
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VideoSignum Quartet performs Priaulx Rainier’s Scherzo
The work features on the quartet’s new album A Dark Flaring, which spotlights works by South African composers
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VideoCellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia performs his own composition, ‘Ouróboros’
Alongside pianist Naoko Sonoda, the cellist performs a work that explores the ancient Egyptian and Greek symbol for cycles of life, death and rebirth
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VideoCellist Sterling Elliott performs Kevin Day’s ‘Gymnopédie I’
Elliott and pianist Wynona Wang perform the ‘dreamy and otherworldly’ work for the Lincoln Center’s Sidewalk Sessions
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VideoAt the World’s Edge: Huw Watkins String Trio no.2
The release of the recording follows the launch of the Chicago edition of the New Zealand-born At the World’s Edge Festival, which aims to connect the creative communities of Chicago, the US and New Zealand
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VideoWatch: Alisa Weilerstein performs The Recovery of Paradise: Blackford Cello Concerto
Weilerstein performs the third movement with the Czech Philharmonic and conductor Tomáš Netopil
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VideoJust Biber: a new video from violinist Rachel Podger
An exclusive look at the featured single from Podger’s new album, out 4 July
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Video’My deepest fulfilment lies in broadening the violin repertoire’: Oleg Pokhanovski on transcribing Don Juan for violin and piano
Playing in the Golden Era spirit of Heifetz, Oleg Pokhanovski plays both the violin and piano parts in this unique transcription of Richard Strauss’ epic symphonic tone poem. He shares his thoughts on this monumental feat with The Strad
