All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 120
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ArticleIU Jacobs School of Music appoints Joseph Swensen to violin faculty
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music has appointed Joseph Swensen as visiting professor of violin. The New Jersey-born violinist, composer and conductor will start his position in the autumn of 2013. Swensen is currently conductor emeritus of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO). He was the ...
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ArticleBBC Proms programme highlights star string soloists but just one quartet
Violin concertos will be well represented at the 2013 BBC Proms, although string quartets and trios are almost absent from this year’s programme. Despite a series of chamber music and Saturday lunchtime concerts set for Cadogan Hall during the Proms period, the only quartet to be performing ...
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ArticleHeifetz plays Mendelssohn
In the April issue, US violist Miles Hoffman chooses his five favourite classical discs. He begins with this recording of Jascha Heifetz performing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor with Thomas Beecham conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. 'My love for the violin, and for music, began with this ...
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ArticleAlban Berg Violin Concerto: UK premiere
Alban Berg's Violin Concerto received its world premiere on 19 April 1936. It was commissioned by American violinist Louis Krasner, who performs the solo part in this UK recording, made some weeks later, with Anton Webern conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra. 'There is an excruciatingly difficult double-stopping cadenza of ...
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ArticleGilles Apap on playing a Mozart cadenza
French violinist Gilles Apap (born 21 May 1963) talks about meeting Yehudi Menuhin and playing his own cadenza for Mozart's Concerto no.3 in G major K216. The performance begins at 1:54 and the cadenza at 4:28.
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ArticleLong-serving LA Philharmonic bassist Richard D. Kelley dies at the age of 76
US double bassist Richard D. Kelley, who performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for more than 50 years, died on 16 April at the age of 76. He had joined the orchestra in 1956 aged 19, when Eduard van Beinum was its music director. During his 57-year ...
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ArticleMenuhin's guide to the violin
The legendary violinist explains his theories on the skills of playing
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ArticleTitanic bandleader's letter sells for £93,000 at auction
A letter written by Titanic violinist and bandleader Wallace Hartley has been sold for £93,000. Hartley wrote the letter on board the Titanic just days before the liner's maiden voyage ended in tragedy in the North Atlantic on 14 April 1912. The letter, addressed to Hartley's ...
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ArticleDragonetti Double Bass Concerto – first movement
On 23 April 1846 Domenico Dragonetti was buried at the Roman Catholic chapel of St Mary, Moorfields, London. Here's the first movement of his Double Bass Concerto ('revised' by Eduard Nanny), with US bassist Gary Karr as soloist. This video allows listeners to follow the solo part ...
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ArticleVeteran US concertmaster William Steck dies at 79
US violinist William Steck has died at the age of 79. A veteran of the Philadelphia, Cleveland, Dallas Symphony and Atlanta Symphony orchestras, he was best known as concertmaster of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in Washington DC, which he led from 1982 to 2001. Born in ...
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ArticleRoyal Philharmonic Society honours Buskaid and Sphinx founders
The UK's Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) has awarded honorary memberships to Buskaid founder Rosemary Nalden and Aaron Dworkin, the founder of the Sphinx Organisation. British violist Nalden (pictured) founded Buskaid in 1992 to raise money for a string project in South Africa. Since 1999 she has ...
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GalleryInside a string factory
Have you ever wondered how strings are made? The string industry is incredibly competitive so images of the more specialised machinery are highly sensitive, but here are some not-top-secret pictures that Ariane Todes took recently when she was given a tour of the Super-Sensitive Musical String Company in Sarasota, Florida. ...
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FocusInside the top-secret world of string manufacturing
Ariane Todes gets an exclusive peek inside a string factory
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ReviewFranck: Violin Sonata in A major; Mélancolie; Prélude, fugue et variation op.18 (arr. Dumay/Lortie) Strauss: Violin Sonata in E flat major op.18; Auf stillen Waldespfad (arr. Heifetz)
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Compelling playing from one of today’s great violinistsMusicians: Augustin Dumay (violin) Louis Lortie (piano)Composer: Franck and StraussThese popular sonatas both derive from the chromatic sensuality of middle-period Wagner, but whereas the Franck’s aching seductiveness sits on a knife-edge between sacred ...
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ArticleLondon-based Fournier Trio wins 2013 Parkhouse Award
The Fournier Trio has won the 2013 Parkhouse Award in London. The award, given every two years, is for chamber ensembles of piano and strings whose members have been performing together for at least two years. The prize for the winning ensemble includes three concerts in major ...
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Follow-up experiment for blind testing study to assess instruments' projection
A controversial 2010 experiment, which attempted to find out how easily players could distinguish new violins from old Italians, is to have a follow-up. The study's authors have announced that the new experiment will take place in September at a venue on the outskirts of Paris, France. Instead of ...
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ReviewBlue Violin: A Jazz Legacy
The Strad Issue: M/ay 2013Description: Understated reinterpretations of jazz standardsMusicians: James Sanders (violin) Kevin O’Connell TrioComposer: VariousJames Sanders is a classical violinist who has spent two decades learning his craft as a jazzer, with this record the fruits of that labour. He’s chosen a set of standards ...
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ArticleTabea Zimmermann plays Schumann's great Märchenbilder
Our May issue is devoted to that versatile, under-appreciated instrument: the viola. Tabea Zimmermann is one of its leading champions today, with her teaching, performing and commissioning, and here she performs one of the highlights of the repertoire, Schumann's Märchenbilder.To download the May edition of The Strad click ...
