All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 138
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FocusAlbert Spalding: ‘The Greatest American Violinist'
The life of the US musician, born 125 years ago this month, is celebrated in our August issue. Here's an interview with Spalding at the start of his career
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ArticleBach's Chaconne on film: Jascha Heifetz
A 1970 recording shows the 69-year-old violinist on fine form
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ArticleBach's Chaconne on film: Maxim Vengerov
The Russian violinist performs the work with a Baroque bow
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ArticleYoung violinist stars in Filipino movie
A film about a seven-year-old violinist has become one of the Philippines’ most critically acclaimed releases of the year. Filmed in 2008, Boses (Voices) focuses on a mute boy’s friendship with a reclusive violin player, and how their shared love of the instrument helps them come to terms with the ...
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ReviewRecital
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: The iconoclastic violinist explores his musical rootsMusicians: Nigel Kennedy (violin) and ensembleComposer: VariousFor this album, Nigel Kennedy has chosen to revisit the music he grew up with – swing, Bach, reggae and more – and so perhaps it’s appropriate that he’s gone ...
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ArticleViolinist William Hagen awarded Dorothy DeLay Memorial Fellowship
American violinist William Hagen has won the Dorothy DeLay Memorial Fellowship competition at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Hagen, 20, was awarded a scholarship for the 2014 Aspen festival, where he will also give a performance with orchestra. Hagen, who hails from Utah, is a student of Robert Lipsett ...
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FocusThe wisdom of Bruno Giuranna – Part Two
The viola player and teacher offers his advice on mastering the instrument
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ReviewWolf: String Quartet in D minor, Intermezzo in E flat major, Italian Serenade in G major
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Sometimes grim but often powerful music from a troubled late RomanticMusicians: Hugo Wolf QuartetComposer: WolfHow convenient that the complete quartet music of Hugo Wolf fits neatly on to one CD (six seconds short of an hour on this one). The eponymous quartet ...
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BlogsViolinist Ivry Gitlis remembers George Enescu
Our October issue will focus on great players of the past, including interviews with people who knew them or revere them. Ariane Todes has just interviewed the inimitable Gitlis about his former teacher and gives a sneak preview
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ReviewBartók: Violin Concertos nos.1 & 2
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Highly successful accounts of two very different concertos from the same penMusicians: Isabelle Faust (violin) Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Daniel HardingComposer: BartókBartók’s two violin concertos exemplify the stylistic jolt that many composers experienced in attempting to bridge the creative chasm between ...
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ArticleBBC to cut Nigel Kennedy 'apartheid' statement
The BBC has confirmed it will remove a statement made last week by violinist Nigel Kennedy at a Proms concert for its TV broadcast on 23 August. The statement, made from the stage of the Royal Albert Hall, came at the end of a concert by Kennedy and ...
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BlogsA Brief Survey of Summer Festivals Without All the Bother of Joining a String Quartet – Part Two
American String Quartet violist Daniel Avshalomov continues his blog tour of US festivals in the clean mountain air of Crested Butte, Colorado
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ArticleBach's Chaconne on film: Gidon Kremer
The Latvian violinist explores the instrument's full range of colour in this masterwork.
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ArticleStudy suggests that judgement of music competitions is led more by sight than sound
New research into how music competition performances are evaluated suggests that what judges see matters more than what they hear. Scientists at University College London set out to test the general consensus that sound is the most important element in judging a musical performance. The findings were published in the ...
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FocusDoes success in music competitions really matter?
Violin laureates share their stories with The Strad
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BlogsDo violin competitions face extinction?
A day trip to Switzerland yielded some provocative conversations about the future of string music contests for Ariane Todes
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ReviewImages. Marais: Pièces for viola da gamba and theorbo
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Beautifully characterised performances of Marais’s gamba piecesMusicians: Mieneke van der Velden (viola da gamba) Fred Jacobs (French theorbo)Composer: MaraisPublished between 1686 and 1725, Marais’s five books of bass viol pieces reflect the changing tastes of his time, not least because ...
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ArticleWebsite launched for orchestral 'music and wellness' scheme
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) has launched a website providing information and resources for organisations looking to devise ‘music and wellness’ programmes. The site brings together advice and experience gained from the PSO’s own programmes, which began in 1999. The programmes involve working with music therapists in facilities such as ...
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ArticleNew London festival combines improvised music with art, theatre, dance and film
Cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson (pictured), viola player Max Baillie and all-string group the 12 Ensemble are among the performers at a new ten-day festival in east London next month. The ‘i = u Festival’ will bring together music with dance, art, theatre and film as it explores improvisation ...
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ArticleBach's Chaconne on film: Viktoria Mullova
The Russian violinist brings Baroque flair to her interpretation of the work
