All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 144
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ArticleJohannesburg violinist claims gold at Artscape Youth Music Competition
A 15-year-old violinist from Johannesburg has taken the top laurels at the 2013 Artscape National Youth Music Competition for pianists and orchestral instrumentalists.Frances Whitehead from Dunkeld, Johannesburg, received ZAR25,000 and a gold medal as overall winner. She also won the string category prize and the award for the best performance ...
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ReviewGhedini: Violin Sonatas in A major & E flat major, Bizzarria, Due poemi
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Welcome complete recording of an Italian composer’s violin musicMusicians: Emy Bernecoli (violin) Massimo Giuseppe Bianchi (piano)Composer: GhediniGiorgio Federico Ghedini (1892–1965) was one of a large number of composers active during the first half of the last century whose music is so poetically ...
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ArticleMedical scans reveal secrets of world's oldest cello
Researchers at the National Music Museum in South Dakota, US, have used hospital scanning equipment to gather information on the construction of what is thought to be the oldest surviving cello, the 'King', made by the 16th-century Cremonese luthier Andrea Amati (c.1505–1577).Matthew Zeller, a graduate research assistant at the museum ...
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ArticleJacques Thibaud: La Fontaine d'Aréthuse
Jacques Thibaud perform Szymanowski's La Fontaine d'Aréthuse with Tasso Janopoulo at the piano. Filmed in 1936.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial.
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ArticleGreat string players of the past: Joseph Szigeti plays Prokofiev
Joseph Szigeti performs an excerpt from the Andante of Prokofiev's Sonata no.2 for violin and piano in D major, op. 94b with Arthur Balsam, from The Art of Joseph Szigeti, VAI DVD 4269. Szigeti is one of the players featured in our special edition October issue, guest edited by Steven Isserlis. ...
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GalleryFrom Stradivari's workshop
Stradivari's tools, moulds and templates have been transplanted from the Museo Stradivariano in Cremona and are now on display in the city's new Museo del Violino – alongside instruments from Cremona's most important collections. To navigate through the gallery, click on any picture and use the left and right ...
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BlogsA twist on tradition
Peter Somerford visits Cremona's new Museo del Violino to see if rare violins and state-of-the-art technology make a welcoming combination
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ReviewEnescu: Complete Works for Violin and Piano vol.1: Violin Sonatas in A minor ‘Torso’, no.2 in F minor op.6 & no.3 in A minor op.25 ‘dans le caractère populaire roumain’, Impromptu concertant
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Highly successful performances of music from Enescu’s youth and maturityMusicians: Axel Strauss (violin) Ilya Poletaev (piano)Composer: EnescuIn common with many composers working in a post-Romantic idiom, George Enescu struggled initially to find his own stylistic niche, as is exemplified by the early ...
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ArticleDaniel Müller-Schott awarded Aida Stucki Prize
The German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott is the recipient of the Aida Stucki Prize, worth €10,000 and bestowed by the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. The sponsorship award offers recipients performance and educational opportunities.The Foundation praised Müller-Schott for ‘his outstanding contribution to the cello repertoire’. The statement read: ‘He is unpretentiously devoted to ...
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ArticleBeethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata on film: Efrem Zimbalist
Precious 1926 footage of the Russian violinist Efrem Zimbalist performing the last movement of Beethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata with the pianist Harold Bauer. Read about the legendary violin players in our Violin Heroes bookazine. Listen to how other great violinists tackled Beethoven's great masterwork: Joshua Bell Dylana Jenson Gidon Kremer Nathan Milstein Anne-Sophie ...
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ArticleAtlanta Symphony Orchestra principal double bassist Ralph Jones dies
Ralph Jones, who recently retired as principal double bassist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, died on 9 October aged 68 following a long battle with cancer.Jones was part of the orchestra for over 40 years. He joined in 1970 and served as principal bass from 1977 until his retirement at ...
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ArticleInternational organisation set up to promote music education and cultural understanding
Violinist Tasmin Little is among the artists lending their support to a new organisation being launched this month to promote and music education and cultural dialogue across the Mediterranean and the Middle East.EMMA for Peace, or the Euro Mediterranean Music Academy, is supported by UNESCO and seeks to create a ...
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FocusFrom the archive: a female concertmaster comes out from the shadows
An article from The Strad, 1935, pays credit to pioneering violinist Marie Wilson
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ArticleBeethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata on film: Dylana Jenson
The American violinist Dylana Jenson – praised as a youngster by no less a figure than George Szell – performs Beethoven's masterwork aged 13, with pianist Alain Planes.Listen to how other great violinists tackled Beethoven's great masterwork: Joshua Bell Dylana Jenson Gidon Kremer Nathan Milstein Anne-Sophie Mutter Pinchas Zukerman ...
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ArticleCellists invited to free day of cello events at UK's Birmingham Conservatoire
Cellists of all ages, levels and walks of life are invited to a free day of workshops, performances and masterclasses at the UK’s Birmingham Conservatoire on 27 October.The college’s annual Cello Day is open to anyone who plays the cello, from music students to hobbyists and amateurs. The event will ...
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ReviewPart Two
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A successful follow-up to a jazz–classical group’s disc debutMusicians: Basquiat Strings: Emma Smith, Vicky Fifield (violin) Jennymay Logan (viola) Ben Davis (cello) Richard Pryce (double bass) Seb Rochford (drums)Composer: VariousLed by London-based improvisatory cellist Ben Davis, Basquiat Strings caused a stir in ...
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ReviewSaariaho: Chamber works for strings vol.1: Tocar, Vent nocturne, Calices, Spins and Spells, Nocturne, Nymphéa
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Individual quartet members come to the fore in a disc of contemporary soundsMusicians: Meta4, Anna Laakso (piano) Marko Myöhänen (electronics)Composer: SaariahoIt’s hard to imagine more passionate, committed or meticulously crafted accounts of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s exquisitely strange chamber music for strings ...
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ArticleViolinist Noah Bendix-Balgley purchases 1732 Bergonzi once owned by Nigel Kennedy
American violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, leader of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, has purchased a 1732 violin by the Italian maker Carlo Bergonzi, a close associate of the workshops of Stradivari and Guarneri.The violinist spent over a year searching for a new instrument and tried out more than 50 violins ...
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ArticleBeethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata on film: Gidon Kremer
The Latvian violinist performs with Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich. Listen to how other great violinists tackled Beethoven's great masterwork: Joshua Bell Dylana Jenson Gidon Kremer Nathan Milstein Anne-Sophie Mutter Pinchas Zukerman Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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GalleryThe Ostrovsky technique of hand formation - or tendinitis?
A series of advertisements from The Strad, 1914, shows a system for strengthening the hands that looks more like a torture tool. No less than Efrem Zimbalist recommended it as 'epoch-making': more probably, pain-making.
