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All violin articles – Page 18
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Article11-year-old Samuel Tan performs at Menuhin Competition 2016
11-year-old Samuel Tan, youngest competitor in the 2016 Menuhin Competition, performs in the first round of the Junior Division.His programme features the first movement of Bach's Second Violin Concerto, the first movement of Grieg's Sonata no.1, Wieniawski's Etude-Caprice op.18, no.4 and Enescu's Ballade.Read: Menuhin Competition 2016 names 10 ...
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NewsMenuhin Competition 2016 names 10 violinists through to the Junior Semi Finals
This year’s contest, celebrating the centenary of its famous namesake, takes place in London
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ArticleMaxim Vengerov performs on a 1740 Guarneri del Gesù - Menuhin Competition 2016 Junior First Prize
Maxim Vengerov performs Ernst's The Last Rose of Summer on a Guarneri del Gesù c.1740 violin, previously played by Hungarian violinist and conductor Sándor Végh. The instrument will be loaned to the winner of the 2016 Menuhin Competition Junior Category for two years by Florian Leonhard Fine ...
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FocusBach should only be played as an encore in special circumstances, says violinist Arabella Steinbacher
The Strad asks six international solo violinists what the encore tradition means to them, and to reveal their personal favourites
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ArticleViolinist Frank Peter Zimmermann performs Mozart's Third Concerto
A youthful Frank Peter Zimmermann performs the first movement of Mozart's Third Violin Concerto conducted by Bernard Haitink. The violinist discusses re-recording the Mozart violin concertos, 20 years after his breakthrough recording cycle, in The Strad's April 2016 issue - download on desktop computer or through The ...
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ArticleViolinist Leonidas Kavakos performs Tárrega encore
Leonidas Kavakos performs Ruggiero Ricci's arrangement of Francisco Tárrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra as an encore. The violinist contributes to The Strad's Encores feature, published in the April 2016 issue - download on desktop computer or through The Strad App.
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NewsThe Strad April 2016 issue is out now
Twenty years after his breakthrough recording of the Mozart concertos, German violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann revisits the cycle on disc
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NewsChinese violinist Xiao Wang wins Byrd International Young Artist Competition
The musician is a former winner of the Szigeti and Seoul competitions
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NewsViolinists Tessa Lark and Alexi Kenney receive 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grants, worth $25,000
Further grants are awarded to violinist Sean Lee, cellist Jay Campbell and pianist George Li
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NewsCity of Birmingham Symphony names Kate Suthers second violin section leader
The Australian born violinist will join the orchestra in late May
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NewsLondon’s Royal College of Music receives rare Gagliano violin in its original Baroque set-up
The 1758 instrument has been gifted to the institution on permanent loan
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NewsVuillaume’s ‘Evangelists’ string quartet of instruments sells for £960,000
Constructed from matching wood in 1863 the instruments are based on Stradivari models
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NewsViolinist Janine Jansen to step down as artistic director of her chamber festival
Cellist Harriet Krijgh, aged 24, will take over the annual event in Utrecht from 2017
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ArticleMaxim Vengerov plays the ‘Schneiderhan’ Stradivarius violin - first prize for the Menuhin Competition 2016
There is nothing like a 301-year-old violin sound. I was very lucky, as at the age of 10, I was given the use of a half-size Strad. You immediately think that you are now going to be an amazing violinist because you are playing a Strad, with its ...
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ArticleViolin smashed onstage in Eight Songs for a Mad King
The King, played by Peter Tantsits, smashes a violin in the climax to International Contemporary Ensemble's production of Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King.
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ArticleHow effective is a modern violin and Baroque bow in period performance?
Dr Tomas Cotik, violin soloist, Amernet String Quartet member and professor at the University of Miami, performs the Largo from Bach's Violin Sonata no.3 on his modern violin and a Baroque bow. He describes his decision to use this combination for the recording below:'I usually play a modern ...
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Albani, Bozen, 1694
This illustration of a violin by Mathias Albani was published in The Strad, August 1974
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ArticleCigar box violin with guitar strings
A violin made from a cigar box is sound tested. The neck is made of pear wood, and the fingerboard of beech. The instrument is strung with standard guitar strings.Watch: Violin made from 16,000 matchsticks is performed in concertWatch: Glenn Donnellan plays his electric baseball bat violin
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NewsHRH Prince Charles agrees to be patron of Menuhin Competition 2016
The Prince of Wales, who knew violinist Yehudi Menuhin well, has given his ‘warmest good wishes’ to this year’s competitors
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NewsAirBerlin changes hand baggage restrictions to allow violins in the cabin
The airline has responded to recent criticism by string players highlighting its current strict cabin baggage rules
