All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 102
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ReviewVivaldi: La cetra op.9
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Convincing performance of Vivaldi’s set of twelve violin concertosMusicians: Rachel Podger (violin) Holland Baroque SocietyComposer: Vivaldi The undisputed prowess of this album’s personnel sets up high expectations, and these performances do not disappoint. Here, we have lively and animated ...
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Auction house Tarisio acquires Cozio online instrument archive
The internet-based auction house Tarisio has announced that it has acquired Cozio, the online instrument archive. In a statement, Tarisio explained that the Cozio website will be substantially redesigned to include higher-quality images, greater consideration for owners' privacy, a shift towards authentic and representational instruments, and frequent content from ...
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ReviewConcertos for Strings with Percussion Orchestra. Sekhon: Lou*. Saunders Smith: Nightshade† . Liptak Concerto for viola and percussion‡. Timpson: Dongxidongxi¶. D. Adams: Camouflage**
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Beautifully crafted accounts of new string concertosMusicians: Carolyn Stuart* (violin) John Graham† (viola) Scott Kluksdahl‡ (cello) Dee Moses¶ (double bass) Haiqiong Deng** (zheng) McCormick Percussion Group/Robert McCormickComposer: Sekhon, Saunders Smith, Liptak, Timpson, D. Adams There’s a small ...
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ReviewJones: ?Chamber Airs for a Violin (and Thorough Bass)
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Well-characterised performance of a mid-17th-century English collectionMusicians: Kreeta-Maria Kentala (violin) Lauri Pulakka (cello) Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord)Composer: Jones Richard Jones’s eight Chamber Airs are strikingly inventive. Comprising three or four movements, they are essentially Italianate in style, but also incorporate French dance elements ...
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ReviewVenice by Night. Works by Albinoni, Lotti, Pollarolo, Porta, Veracini & Vivaldi
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A nocturnal celebration of the music of a great cityMusicians: La Serenissima/Adrian Chandler (violin/director) Mhairi Lawson (soprano) Simon Munday (trumpet) Peter Whelan (bassoon)Composer: Albinoni, Lotti, Pollarolo, Porta, Veracini & Vivaldi This compilation reflects the variety of musical fare on offer ...
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ReviewSilence, on joue! A Time For Us. Film themes by Rota, Williams, Barry, Morricone, Shore, Horner, Iglesias, Gardel/Rodríguez, Hisaishi, Korngold, Arlen, Chaplin, Dompierre & Myers
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Limited ambition in a collection of film themes arranged for stringsMusicians: Angèle Dubeau (violin) La PietÁ Composer: Rota, Williams, Barry, Morricone, Shore, Horner, Iglesias, Gardel/Rodríguez, Hisaishi, Korngold, Arlen, Chaplin, Dompierre & MyersThere’s a hint of self-indulgence in ...
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ReviewBach to Jazz. Works by Bach, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Ysaÿe, Sarasate, Monti, Kötscher/Plessow, Rodríguez, Ellington, Withers & Desmond
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A dance-based recital of varied violin repertoireMusicians: Caroline Adomeit (violin) Julian Riem (piano) Thomas Hastreiter (percussion)Composer: Bach, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Ysaÿe, Sarasate, Monti, Kötscher/Plessow, Rodríguez, Ellington, Withers & DesmondBach’s Third Partita and the 13 ‘encores’ that follow display the esoteric musical tastes of ...
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ReviewDedications... A Life in Music. Works by various composers
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A treasure trove of interesting repertoire from a veteran cellistMusicians: Keith Harvey (cello) Linn Hendry, Peter Pettinger, Meralyn Knight (piano)Composer: Various During his professional career as an orchestral soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra and ...
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ReviewTchaikovsky: Violin Concerto. Nielsen: Violin Concerto
The Strad Issue: Sepember 2012Description: Nimbleness and muscularity from a rising Norwegian star of the violinMusicians: Vilde Frang (violin) Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Eivind Gullberg JensenComposer: Tchaikovsky, Nielsen The concertos of Tchaikovsky and Nielsen are not an obvious coupling, but the young Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang has established ...
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ArticleThe Miró Quartet plays Schubert's Quartettsatz
Clip of Schubert's Quartettsatz by The Miro Quartet. Filmed at the studios of KLRU TV in Austin, Texas.Read the Miró Quartet's Practice Diary on rehearsing the Quartettsatz in our November 2013 issue, available on 25 October.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a ...
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Two string soloists and a quartet selected as BBC New Generation Artists
BBC Radio 3 has announced the players chosen for its New Generation Artists scheme this year. Violinist Elena Urioste, cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, and the Apollon Musagète Quartet from Poland will receive opportunities to develop live and recorded performances for broadcast over the next two years. Urioste, a US-born, Mexican–Basque ...
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Four Stradivaris among Canada Council for the Arts' three-year loans
Eighteen Canadian string players have won the right to perform on rare instruments or bows for the next three years, courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts (CCA). The thirteen violinists and five cellists all participated in a competition-style selection process to receive instruments in the care of the ...
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Female viola maker Ulrike Dederer takes Cremona Triennale gold
The winners of the 2012 Cremona Triennale lutherie competition have been announced. For the first time in the contest’s 36-year history, the judges awarded a gold medal to a female maker: Ulrike Dederer, a German-born luthier now based in Zurich, Switzerland, took the first prize in the viola category. ...
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BlogsFeel the power
Peter Somerford reflects on measuring violin projection at the Paris blind-test
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GalleryPostcards from Cremona
Snapshots from Ariane's trip to Cremona for the 2012 Triennale, including photos of Stradivari's first house
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Lost and found
Charles Beare tells the story of the discovery and identification of the 'Huberman' Stradivari violin
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Bow maker Benoît Rolland receives $500k MacArthur grant
The French bow maker Benoît Rolland has been named one of 23 recipients of this year's MacArthur Fellowship, a $500,000 no-strings-attached 'genius grant' from the MacArthur Foundation. Rolland trained as a violinist before studying bow making in Mirecourt with Bernard Ouchard. After working as a bow maker in France ...
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BlogsThe story behind the cover of The Strad's October issue – part two
Designer Elma Aquino explains how the cover of the October issue took shape after the images had been chosen
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BlogsThe life and times of a historic London studio – part three
The private residence where some of the legendary players featured in the October issue of The Strad performed is under threat. Nicholas Lane revisits those glorious days – and nights – via first-hand accounts from the time
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First six weeks of Minnesota Orchestra season cancelled
The management of the Minnesota Orchestra has locked out its musicians after they rejected pay cuts that would take their average annual salary from $135,000 to $89,000. The orchestra also cancelled the first six weeks of its autumn season – a total of 17 performances including the 18 October season-opening ...
