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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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BlogsA cello, a zipline and a drone: how Gautier Capuçon’s Alpine music video was filmed
A steady hand, plus tolerance for heights and altitude were key to Capuçon’s epic new video to raise awareness of glacier preservation
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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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News‘A vast expressive range’: violinist Stanislav Pronin performs Der Rosenkavalier on Heifetz’s violin
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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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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BlogsPaganini’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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BlogsColin 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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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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BlogsTonia Ko’s ‘Soothe a Tooth’ performed by violist Stephen Upshaw
The violist additionally shares his thoughts on the work, described as ’an exercise in not trying to beautify every sound but to admit vulnerability’ which vividly captures the anxiety of 2020 and life in lockdown
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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
