All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 136
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FocusShould all performers learn how to teach?
Performance degree students should put all their energies into becoming great performers, and leave learning teaching skills to their music education counterparts – right? Wrong, say Cornelia Watkins and Laurie Scott, authors of From the Stage to the Studio: how fine musicians become great teachers. In an exclusive article in ...
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ReviewBeethoven: String Quartets op.18 nos.3–5
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: The engaging launch of a new Beethoven series from a veteran ensembleMusicians: Allegri QuartetComposer: BeethovenBeethoven’s op.18 string quartets may not match the formal experimentation and expressive extremes of his later quartets, but there’s a youthful invention that shows the young arrival to ...
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ArticleBeyond classical: Sarah Neufeld
The Arcade Fire violinist creates the music for Forcelessness, a ballet
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ArticleColumbus Symphony recruits new concertmaster
The Columbus Symphony in Ohio, US, has named Canadian Jean-Sébastien Roy as its new concertmaster. His appointment ends an 18-month search by the orchestra. Roy, who performed as guest concertmaster with the orchestra in the 2012–13 season, will lead the orchestra from the beginning of the 2013–14 season in October.Roy ...
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ArticleToby Saks (1942–2013)
Cellist and teacher Toby Saks died on 1 August at the age of 71. A soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue, she founded the Seattle Chamber Music Society in 1982 and served as artistic director of the Seattle Chamber Music Festival for more than three decades.Born in 1942, Saks began learning ...
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ArticlePerlman and Ashkenazy record Franck
Heated discussions about the volume of the violin in the recording provide fascinating insight into the recording process
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ReviewBeethoven: String Trios in E flat major op.3, G major op.9 no 1, D major op.9 no.2 & C minor op.9 no.3, Serenade in D major op.8
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Performances of Beethoven’s complete trios that succeed best in their good humourMusicians: Lendvai String TrioComposer: BeethovenThe Dutch, Swedish and British members of the Lendvai String Trio came together in 2004 while students at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and since ...
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BlogsA Brief Survey of Summer Festivals Without All the Bother of Joining a String Quartet – Part 1
American String Quartet violist Daniel Avshalomov begins his blog tour of US festivals with song and dance – both courtesy of larger-than-life choreographer Mark Morris – in Ojai, California
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ArticleViolinist, 17, wins Schleswig-Holstein competition
Munich-based violinist Louise Wehr has won the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival’s competition for young musicians, which this year was devoted to the violin. The 17-year-old received €5,000 as well as the €500 audience prize at the competition’s final on 3 August.Born in 1996, Wehr (pictured) performed Chausson’s Poème and Bach’s Partita ...
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ArticleConversations with great artists: Isaac Stern
The legendary violinist talks about his musical background and philosophies
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ReviewE. Dall'Abaco: Sonata movements J. Dall'Abaco: Capricci
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Successful accounts of music from an 18th-century Italian dynastyMusicians: Bruno Cocset (cello/viola/tenor violin) Les Basses RéuniesComposer: E. Dall'Abaco, J. Dall'AbacoJoseph Dall’Abaco’s capriccios are here interspersed among selected movements from the sonatas opp.1 and 3 by his father, Evaristo, transposed for a variety ...
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ArticlePittsburgh Symphony concertmaster joins Carnegie Mellon faculty
Noah Bendix-Balgley, concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO), is to join the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University School of Music in September 2013. The 28-year-old violinist (pictured), who has occupied the concertmaster’s chair since 2011, will coach student quartets. Bendix-Balgley was the first violinist of the Athlos Quartet from ...
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ArticleArgentina's first stringed-instrument gallery set for opening
A museum in Buenos Aires is to open a new permanent exhibition hall dedicated to stringed instruments in October. Officials at the Isaac Fernández Blanco Museum of Spanish–American Art believe that the new gallery will be the first such exhibition space in Argentina. Among the instruments to be displayed is ...
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DebateUse intellect, not instinct
Instead of simply focusing on technical prowess, performers should have as profound an understanding of music theory as composers do, argues cellist David Watkin, since it can only serve to develop their skills
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ReviewMendelssohn: String Quintets no.1 in A major op.18 & no.2 in B flat major op.87
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Vibrant readings of works from both ends of Mendelssohn’s short lifeMusicians: Leipzig Quartet, Barbara Buntrock (viola)Composer: MendelssohnSuch was Mendelssohn’s creative genius that when comparing works in the same genre it is not always immediately apparent whether one is listening to a work ...
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ArticleAdrian Shepherd (1939–2013)
Cellist and ensemble director Adrian Shepherd has died at the age of 74. For 20 years he served as principal cellist in the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO), but was best known as the founder of the chamber ensemble Cantilena, which mainly comprised players from the orchestra.Born in 1939 in ...
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ArticleConversations with great artists: Steven Isserlis meets Ida Haendel
In an interview recorded in 2012 at London's Wigmore Hall, Steven Isserlis is joined by violinist Ida Haendel to speak about her life in music, the place of music in her life and her views on the essential spirit of being a performer. 'I am the violin', ...
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BlogsScaling the wall in Beijing
The ninth Great Wall International Music Academy, which took place in Beijing in July, forged connections both musical and social between young musicians from east and west that will enrich their careers, says Nancy Pellegrini
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ArticleFernando Grillo in performance
Double bassist Fernando Grillo, who died on 26 July aged 67, performs two of his own works: Taiacis (1981/82) and Gstüss (1975).
