All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 135
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FocusWhat's in the August digital edition
With The Strad’s digital edition, you can jump from the cover or the contents pages straight to the articles you want to read. You can also link directly to pages on thestrad.com or to products in The Strad Library. Not only that, there’s a wealth of additional ...
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ArticleGidon Kremer plans concert to promote human rights in Russia
Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer has announced plans to hold a special concert in Berlin to promote awareness of the human-rights situation in Russia. Along with his own chamber orchestra Kremerata Baltica, Kremer has stated that cellist Nicolas Altstaedt will perform at the concert, as well as pianists ...
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ReviewSchubert: String Quartet in G major D887, Quartettsatz in C minor D703
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A tribute to the art of ensemble playingMusicians: Wihan QuartetComposer: SchubertEverything about this recording suggests long acquaintance and a great deal of thought. The great G major Quartet has a dramatic, operatic intensity to it, a sense of powerful narrative ...
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ArticleComedy moments: Victor Borge accompanies Anton Kontra
The comic pianist mugs his way through Monti's Czardas
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FocusThe Strad August edition Spotify playlist
Ariane Todes introduces 28 tracks specially chosen to accompany the new August issue of The Strad
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Newark students complete late maker's cello in two-week project
In a special project to benefit the UK-based Rowan Armour-Brown (RAB) Trust, a group of students from the Newark School of Violin Making have completed an unfinished cello by Brian Laurence, who died in 2012. Laurence, who was based in Doncaster, began making the cello in 1989 when he ...
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DebateSources of inspiration
If players and teachers were less cagey about where they discovered their ideas, Philippa Bunting argues, it would be more interesting for audiences and more valuable for their peers
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ArticleThe way they played: Leonard Rose
The cellist performs Bloch's Schelomo with Lorin Maazel and the Cleveland Orchestra
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ReviewBach: Suites for solo cello nos.1–3 (arr. double bass)
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Proof that bassists can be just as nimble and expressive as cellistsMusicians: Jory Herman (double bass)Composer: BachWhether as a result of the unassailable musical status of these suites, or because of an understandable desire to outsmart their cello-playing colleagues, it’s ...
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ArticleGreat teachers on film: Leonard Rose
Cellist Leonard Rose (1918-1984) was famous for having had a deep burnished tone and was naturally gifted in left-hand technique. This 1978 film, edited for viewing by Steven Honigberg, documents Rose's teaching theories for posterity. Click here to see Rose perform Bloch's Schelomo Subscribe to The Strad or download ...
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ArticleTwo violinists share top prize at Cooper International Competition
Kyumin Park, 16, from South Korea, and 18-year-old William Ching-Yi Wei, from Taiwan, were joint first-prize winners of the Cooper International Violin Competition in Cleveland, US.Park (pictured) and Wei each received $10,000. The second prize of $6,000 went to Ming Liu, 18, from China. All three violinists, who performed in ...
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ArticleBeyond classical: Kevin Burke
The Irish fiddler, and subject of Double Acts in The Strad's August issue, performs with Michael O'Domhnaill.
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ReviewViolin Lullabies
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A delightful disc of miniatures succeeds in its aim to sootheMusicians: Rachel Barton Pine (violin) Matthew Hagle (piano)Composer: Brahms, Ysaÿe, Rebikov, Beach, Schwab, Respighi, Gershwin, Falla, Fauré, Sibelius, Viardot-García, Hovhaness, Stravinsky, Ravel, Clarke, Schubert, Schumann, Durosoir, Grieg, Antsev, Strauss, Sivori, Béraud, Still ...
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ArticleThe way they played: Jacqueline du Pré
The cellist plays Brahms's Second Cello Sonata with Daniel Barenboim.
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ArticleStolen £1.2m Stradivarius violin recovered
UK police have recovered a 1696 Stradivarius violin, more than two and half years after it was stolen from Korean violinist Min-Jin Kym. The instrument, discovered intact with some very minor damage including a small crack on the front, was recovered in its case on 18 July, along with a ...
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ReviewBach: Violin Concertos in A minor BWV1041 & E major BWV1042, Harpsichord Concerto in E major BWV1053 (arr. Dantone for violin in D major), Concerto for two harpsichords in C minor BWV1060 (arr. Danton
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: New transcriptions hog the limelight in a disc of Bach violin concertosMusicians: Viktoria Mullova (violin) Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone (director/harpsichord)Composer: Bach, Bach (arr. Dantone)The real interest here lies in the two transcriptions that accompany the E major and A minor violin concertos. Arranged ...
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ArticleUS music camp to teach beginner strings to amputee children
A new music camp for amputee and limb-different children who want to learn stringed instruments or piano launches next week in Cincinnati, US.The Cincinnati Adaptive Music Camp will provide students with any adaptive devices, such as special fittings or instrument platforms, that they need to be able to ...
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ReviewDelius: Concerto for violin and cello, Violin Concerto, Cello Concerto
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Masterly accounts of Delius’s concertos for strings, together for the first time on discMusicians: Tasmin Little (violin) Paul Watkins (cello) BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andrew DavisComposer: DeliusTaken en masse, Delius’s three string concertos can seem like a knotted skein of rhapsody, especially given their ...
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ArticleThe way they played: Erica Morini
The Italian violinist plays the third movement of Bruch's First Violin Concerto.
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What makes a Stradivari valuable?
An article from The Strad, September 1931, looks at the reasons for the high price of Cremonese instruments
