All violin articles – Page 13
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How to encourage a relaxed left-hand thumb in string students
Top viola teacher Bruno Giuranna answer a reader's question for The Strad's Teacher Talk section
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Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major op.6; Mozart, Françaix: Nonet (after the Quintet K452); Schumann: Phantasie in C major op.131
The Strad Issue: September 2016 Description: A new ensemble meets with conspicuous success in Mozart and Schumann Musicians: Sebastian Bohren (violin), Chaarts Chamber Artists Composer: Beethoven, Mozart, Françaix, Schumann Catalogue number: RCA RED ...
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300-year-old violin taken from London train is recovered safely
The Maggini instrument, beloning to Baroque musician Jane Gordon, was taken from the overhead luggage rack of the train from London Waterloo
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Arranging Bizet’s Carmen Suites for violin and guitar
Violinist Nazrin Rashidova describes making arrangements of Bizet, Mozart, Bach and Elgar for her new album, 'Carnival'
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Gil Shaham performs Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
Gil Shaham gives a particularly joyful performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lan Shui in May 2016. The full concert can be viewed at medici.tv. Read: Violinist Gil Shaham on the irresistible lure of 1930s violin concertos Watch: Violinist Gil Shaham ...
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A 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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12 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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12 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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Should 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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Violinist 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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Fire 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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Mozart: 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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Too 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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Violinist 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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'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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Violinist 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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12 tango music techniques for string players
London Tango Orchestra director and violinist Caroline Pearsall demonstrates tango music effects
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Viktoria 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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Is 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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Norwegian 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