All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 143
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ArticleFrench quartet wins Trondheim contest top prize
The Van Kuijk Quartet has won first prize and the audience prize at the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition in Norway. The French ensemble, which formed in 2011 and studies with the Ysaÿe Quartet in Paris, received €15,000 and a concert booking at the Trondheim Chamber Music Festival 2014. Second ...
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FocusPractice Diary: The Miró Quartet - part two
In the November issue, second violinist William Fedkenheuer explains how the four players prepare for a recording of Schubert's Quartettsatz. Here he goes into more detail regarding tempo and intonation
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ArticleSwiss luthier Pierrick Sartre wins gold in Pisogne
The gold medal at the 4th International Violin Making Competition of the Associazione Nazionale Liuteria Artistica Italiana (ANLAI) in Pisogne, Italy, has been won by Swiss luthier Pierrick Sartre. Silver went to Oh Dong Hyun, from South Korea, and Andreas Haensel, from Germany, took bronze. Extra medals were awarded to ...
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ReviewBrahms: Violin Sonatas no.1 in G major op.78, no.2 in A major op.100 and no.3 in D minor op.108
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Brahms playing that is perhaps too self-regarding for comfortMusicians: Sergey Khachatryan (violin) Lusine Khachatryan (piano)Composer: BrahmsSergey and Lusine Khachatryan present Brahms’s First Sonata as seen through the eyes of the daydreaming Schumann, with the music often wistful, frequently sad, and on occasion ...
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ArticleGreat string players of the past: Kreisler
Silent film of the violinist offers a tantalising glimpse into his technique
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ReviewBritten: Cello Suites no.1 in G major op.72, no.2 in D major op.80 & no.3 in C minor op.87
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Mixed results in a centenary tribute to BrittenMusicians: Antoine Pierlot (cello)Composer: BrittenFrench cellist Antoine Pierlot offers persuasive accounts of Britten’s three solo suites in a clear recording taken from a live concert. There are some movements, however, in which a more discernible line ...
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FocusWhat happened at the 2013 China International Violin and Bow Making Competition
With an array of experts in attendance, Beijing's international violin and bow making competition was an engrossing affair. Nancy Pellegrini hears a range of views on the industry, and China's growing position within it
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ArticleViolin master toolmaker Brian Hart dies
Brian Hart, an industrial toolmaker who found success creating bespoke clamps and implements for violin makers, has died at the age of 77. Hart started his career making tools for engineering components but later switched to creating devices for stringed instrument, becoming known as a clamping guru for his range ...
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Otherworldly sounds: The Casals Festival in Perpigan
While pondering the fluctuating nature of musical trends and the idea of an underlying interpretative truth, our reviewer from September 1951 finds Pablo Casals to be a perfectly natural performer
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FocusPeace, enchantment and the enduring legacy of Casals
In this report from the Bach Festival at Prades published in The Strad July 1950, writer Christina Thoresby describes the love and respect felt towards the Catalan cellist – one of our great players of the past in the October issue
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FocusThe Beatles and strings – part one
Love Me Do, the Beatles' first single, was released in October 1962. We marked its 50th anniversary with an investigation by Kate Mossman into how the Fab Four brought string music into their work
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ArticleSydney violinist Grace Clifford sweeps the board at Kendall Competition
Violinist Grace Clifford has won a clutch of prizes at the Kendall National Violin Competition in Australia. The 15-year-old took the first prize, as well as the audience choice award, the Richard Pollett Sonata Prize and prizes for the best performance of a solo sonata and partita by Bach. Clifford ...
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ReviewDvorák: Cello Concerto in A major (orch. Burghauser), Serenade for Strings
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A brave attempt to revive the composer’s abandoned first concertoMusicians: Musica Viva/Alexander Rudin (director/cello)Composer: DvorákListening to this early concerto, one can almost hear Dvorák asking ‘Why?’ Why, when he left it unorchestrated and unperformed, and told his students that he regretted its ...
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ArticleCelebrity violins to go under the hammer this month
Instruments owned by violinist Leila Josefowicz and renowned violin pedagogue Dorothy DeLay are set to be auctioned this month.DeLay's 1778 Guadagnini features in Tarisio's New York sale, which ends on 17 October. DeLay, who died in 2002 at the age of 84, purchased the violin in 1969 from Rembert Wurlitzer ...
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ArticleJuilliard uses $60m donation to establish fellowships
Students entering New York’s Juilliard School in 2014 could benefit from a new scholarship programme for classical music students, paid for with a $60m gift made to the school – the largest single donation in its history.The Kovner Fellowship Programme will cover the full cost of attendance – including full ...
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ArticleMulti-million pound development for Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel
String students training at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium are to benefit from a new multi-million pound building due for completion in 2014.The Music Chapel, which is known for its elite intake and its holistic approach to music tuition, announced that the new construction will effectively form a ...
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ArticleTwo winners share first prize at Thailand International String Competition
First prize at the Thailand International String Competition in Bangkok has been won jointly by violist Patcharaphan Khumprakob, 21, from Thailand, and violinist Wang Hao, 22, from China. Each received Bt30,000 (£600). Khumprakob was also awarded the jury prize for excellence.In the middle age category Thailand’s Muang Luanghvisut, 17, won ...
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BlogsTwists and turns – and a deserving first prizewinner in Munich
For the first time in its history, women alone made the solo instrument finals at the International ARD Music Competition – and there was only one first prizewinner. Heather Kurzbauer reports
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ArticleAnimato International Violin Competition extends deadline
The entry deadline for the Animato International Violin Competition in Australia has been extended to 31 October.The contest is open to violinists under the age of 18 (born after 1 January 1995) and will run from 22–24 November at the Old Museum Building in Brisbane. The first prize winner receives ...
