All violin articles – Page 12
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ReviewA Violin's Life, Vol.2: Music for the ‘Lipinski’ Stradivari; Beethoven: Violin Sonata no.9 in A major op.47 ‘Kreutzer’; Maier-Röntgen: Violin Sonata in B minor; Tubin: Sonata for solo violin
The Strad Issue: September 2016 Description: The further adventures of a notable and newsworthy violin Musicians: Frank Almond (violin), William Wolfram (piano) Composer: Beethoven, Maier-Röntgen, Tubin Catalogue number: AVIE AV 2363 The second ...
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Blogs12 ways to encourage your student’s pickiness about pitch – part 2
Meredith Arksey, violin and viola professor at Washington State University, gives helpful hints for teachers wanting to improve their students' awareness of intonation
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Blogs12 ways to encourage your student's pickiness about pitch - part 1
Meredith Arksey, violin and viola professor at Washington State University, gives helpful hints for teachers wanting to improve their students' awareness of intonation
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FocusShould all string players learn how to improvise?
Dutch violinists Martin Norgaard and Tim Kliphuis believe teaching children improvisation and alternative styles of music should be a requirement of string lessons in the 21st century, writes Pauline Harding
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ArticleViolinist and violist Pinchas Zukerman on sound production
You need to have the mechanism organised so that you can feel free to express yourself - which then becomes Schubert or Beethoven or Brahms. So you must separate the technique from the music. Most of the time when we try to express ourselves we lose the ...
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ArticleFire alarm rudely interrupts violinist's recital
The fire alarm intrudes on a performance of César Franck's Violin Sonata by violinist Aurora Mendez and pianist Dr Soyeon Kim at Montclair State University. For a while the performers valiantly continue despite the noise, but eventually are forced to stop - prompting a joking comment from an ...
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ReviewMozart: Violin Concertos: no.3 in G major K216; no.4 in D major K218; no.5 in A major K219 ‘Turkish’
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: September 2016 Description: Natural, spontaneous Mozart from Kraggerud and his Norwegian players Musicians: Henning Kraggerud (violin), Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Composer: Mozart Catalogue number: NAXOS 8.573513 If Henryk ...
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DebateToo often, performance presentation skills are left in the lap of the gods
It is desirable for music teachers to take stage presentation skills seriously from the very start, argues Naomi Yandell
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ArticleViolinist Pinchas Zukerman performs Wieniawski's Polonaise in D major
Violinist Pinchas Zukerman gives a show-stopping performance of Wieniawski's Polonaise no.1 in D major.Read: ‘Playing the viola is greatly beneficial to all violinists,’ says Pinchas ZukermanPinchas Zukerman is interviewed in The Strad’s September 2016 issue about his life in string education and his global vision for the future ...
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Focus'Playing the viola is greatly beneficial to all violinists,' says Pinchas Zukerman
The veteran violinist, violist, conductor and pedagogue is interviewed in The Strad's September 2016 issue
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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov performs Wieniawski's Légende
Maxim Vengerov performs Wieniawski's Légende at Festival Luna Classics in Nyon, Switzerland in 2014 in celebration of his 40th birthday.Watch: Violinist Maxim Vengerov performs Paganini’s Caprice no.24Watch: Maxim Vengerov on playing the violin like MozartWatch: Maxim Vengerov on taking time to explore the fingerboard
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Blogs12 tango music techniques for string players
London Tango Orchestra director and violinist Caroline Pearsall demonstrates tango music effects
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ArticleViktoria Mullova plays Sibelius Violin Concerto
Viktoria Mullova performs Sibelius's Violin Concerto with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest in April 2016. Watch: Violinist Viktoria Mullova gives winning performance at the 1980 Sibelius Competition
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FocusIs it healthy to arch your back and raise your violin when playing up high, as top soloists often do?
Top teachers Boris Kuschnir and Mimi Zweig answer a reader's question for The Strad's Teacher Talk section
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NewsNorwegian Air refuses to transport violin in the cabin - despite change to hand baggage rules
Violinist Ellen Samdal was told her instrument would be checked into the hold because she was also carrying a purse
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ArticleFormlabs' 3D-printed acoustic violin made from white resin
Formlabs engineer Brian Chan and violinist Rhett Price have combined forces to build a 3D-printed violin from white resin.The instrument was made with SLA (StereoLithoGraphy) printing technology - which lends itself well to intricate details and a smooth surface finish - rather than a FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) ...
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NewsViolinist and teacher Dejan Mihailović has died aged 84
The Serbian musician taught at the Faculty of Music at the University of Arts in Belgrade
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NewsMedici Quartet founding violinist Paul Robertson has died aged 63
The violinist performed with the ensemble for over four decades, but had suffered from ill health in recent years
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Alfredo Galea, 1979
This illustration of a violin by Alfredo Galea was published in The Strad, March 1982. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:Among the Italian violins produced in this century, the instruments of Alfredo G. Galea merit special appreciation for their lustrous and flexible tone. After a ...
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ArticleA violin bow with a mind of its own
A violinist's enthusiastic final bow stroke makes for a finale to remember in this orchestral concert from 2013.Watch: A bow hair disasterWatch: Violist Yuri Bashmet in tailpiece disasterWatch: Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt in page turning catastrophe