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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
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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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VideoNew video: Lembit Beecher’s ‘Green Line’ performed by cellist Karen Ouzounian
The work features solo cello and recorded audio of Ouzounian’s mother recalling memories from the Lebanese Civil War
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VideoWATCH: Antonio Mormone International Prize finals – day four
The finalists take turns performing the same sonata on the same historical instrument
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VideoWATCH: Antonio Mormone International Prize finals - day three
Violinists Elli Choi and Anna Im take to the stage in chamber music and recital performances
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VideoWATCH: Antonio Mormone International Prize finals - day two
Violinists Elli Choi and Hawjich Elders take to the stage in recital and chamber music performances
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VideoWATCH: Antonio Mormone International Prize finals - day one
Violinists Anna Im and Hawjich Elders take to the stage in chamber music and recital performances
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Video‘Bien chanté’: Violinist Cristian de Sá on Ravel’s Sonate op. Posthume
2025 marks the 150th anniversary of Ravel’s birth. Along with pianist Keigo Mukawa, the violinist Cristian de Sá presents a performance of Ravel’s Posthumous Sonata, plus historical and personal insights on the work
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VideoNew video: cellist Juliette Herlin performs Debussy Rêverie
Along with pianist Kevin Ahfat, the cellist presents a work on the new album, ‘Dialogue’
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VideoPerfectly poised pizzicato: Louise McMonagle performs ‘Salat Babilya’ for solo cello
The work by Zoë Martlew draws influences from a modern lullaby from Iraq and the Middle Eastern oud
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VideoYevgeny Kutik performs Dvořák’s ‘Going Home’ for solo violin
Who needs the full symphony orchestra when you can play the whole thing on one violin?
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Video‘More powerful and relevant than ever’ - violinist Charles Yang performs a moving encore
The violinist and vocalist performs ’A Change is Gonna Come’ by Sam Cooke, a song that became an anthem for the American Civil Rights Movement
