Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky gives a detailed insight into his practice regime in our June issue. Over the course of single day he experiments with playing without a shoulder rest, tackles some tricky cadenzas and looks over the Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Mozart Fourth and Shostakovich First concertos.
Here's an archive performance by the violinist from September 2007, recorded at London's Wigmore Hall. He is accompanied at the piano by his mother, Olga Sitkovetsky.
Perfectly judged, poised ensemble in lovingly sculpted French piano trios
The two musicians will begin teaching at Southern Methodist University’s music school in Dallas, Texas in autumn 2020
Ma plays the solemn D minor Prelude amid melting permafrost on Lower Tanana Dene lands in Fairbanks, Alaska
The sextet performs a chamber version of the work at the Solsberg Festival 2023
The violinist delves into Piazzolla’s exploration of sound and percussive effects, in the third and final part of his documentary series
Take an exclusive first-look at this performance from violist Daniel Orsen and pianist Pierre-Nicolas Colombat, ahead of their album release named Wagner’s Nightmare on 19 April
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