All violinist articles – Page 11
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Violinist performs while suspended upside down from bridge
Félix Analís performs his violin while suspended upside down from a bridge in Xalapa, Mexico.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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Maxim Vengerov on playing the violin like Mozart
Violinist Maxim Vengerov gives a masterclass on Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto at the Royal Academy of Music, London - including a humorous impression of Mozart's violin playing.The full 48-minute video is available to buy as a download or DVD through the Masterclass Media Foundation.Watch Vengerov give a showstopping ...
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Blogs
Violinist Nikolaj Znaider on conquering performance nerves
The Strad’s March 2015 cover star says musicians must always put the music first
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Violinist Maxim Vengerov on blending your sound with other instruments
You have to forget sometimes that you play the violin. Use it to express the sound of the music and to integrate with the orchestra'Violinist Maxim Vengerov gives a masterclass on Britten’s Violin Concerto at the Royal Academy of Music, London. The full 50-minute video is available to ...
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Blogs
Violinist Joshua Bell on the art of conducting
In 2011 the Grammy Award-winning artist became music director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, where he conducts from the concertmaster’s chair
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Joshua Bell performs Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Joshua Bell, who talks to The Strad about the art of conducting, performs and directs Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for the Pharos Arts Foundation in Nicosia, Cyprus.The Strad's March 2015 issue, out now, investigates the increasing number of string players ...
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Maxim Vengerov on Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
One note of wider vibrato can ruin the purity of the whole line...'Violinist Maxim Vengerov gives a masterclass on Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Playing the solo part is Aya Sanada. The full 48-minute video is available to buy as a download or ...
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Debate
The media was too quick to condemn Kyung Wha Chung's reaction to a coughing audience
Our focus has been wrong all along, argues Toby Deller
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Violinist Stéphane Grappelli performs 'It Had To Be You'
Legendary jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli performs 'It had To Be You' with guitarists Martin Taylor and Louis Stewart, and double bassist Jack Sewing in The Grand Opera House, Belfast in April 1986.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To ...
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Focus
British violinist Fenella Barton on overcoming rheumatoid arthritis
Conquering pain taught the solo and chamber musician to play as if every performance was her last
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News
Obituary: violinist Lydia Mordkovitch
The Russian violinist who trained with Oistrakh was known for her gutsy, passionate playing
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Violinist Josef Suk performs Dvorák's Violin Concerto
Violinist Josef Suk performs the first movement of his great grandfather Antonín Dvorák's Violin Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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News
American violinist David Radzynski named Israel Philharmonic concertmaster
The 28-year-old takes up the position in March 2015
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Violinist Nigel Kennedy performs Bach's Two-Part Inventions
Violinist Nigel Kennedy and cellist Juliet Welchman perform arrangements of Bach's Two-Part Inventions nos. 1, 6, 8 and 14, originally written for keyboard.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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Violinist Joshua Bell and Igudesman & Joo present Christmas Confusion
Violinist Joshua Bell teams with comedy musicians Igudesman & Joo to present a glorious Jewish/Christmas mash-up. Watch the star soloist as you have never seen him before...Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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Violinist Joshua Bell performs Let It Snow
Violinist Joshua Bell and friends perform an attractive arrangement of Let It Snow for WQXR radio at The Green Space in New York in December 2013.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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Violinist Maxim Vengerov on Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy
You must show off all your virtuosity. You are playing as if you have played this 100 times and it feels too easy † you need to attract more attention'Violin virtuoso Maxim Vengerov gives a masterclass on Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy. The full 55-minute video is available to buy ...
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Violinists Ruggiero Ricci and Ivry Gitlis clowning around
Legendary violinists Ruggiero Ricci and Ivry Gitlis share musical jokes while lying on a bed together. An excerpt from documentary 'Ruggiero Ricci † Life is a Violin', filmed for Xochil Productions and available in full on medici.tv. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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News
Ten-year-old UK violinist raises £32,000 for local hospice
Madison Glinski began busking on the streets of Cornwall with the intention of raising £500
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News
Children should be welcome in ‘appropriate’ concerts, says violinist Kyung Wha Chung
The musician has responded to criticism in the media last week of her response to a coughing child at her London recital