All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 152
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ReviewBrahms: Viola Sonata in F minor op.120 no.1. Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821 (arr. viola). Franck: Violin Sonata in A major (arr. viola)
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A viola disc making a good case for ‘borrowing’ sonatas from other instrumentsMusicians: Tabea Zimmermann (viola) Kirill Gerstein (piano)Composer: Brahms, Schubert, FranckThese sonatas were written for other instruments, but two of them have long been incorporated into the viola’s repertoire, and most violists ...
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ArticleSigiswald Kuijken performs Bach's Cello Suite no.1, Courante, on the violoncello da spalla
Belgian violinist, violist and conductor Sigiswald Kuijken's recording of the Bach Cello Suites was published in The Strad, July 2009, containing the following extract: 'Sigiswald Kuijken decided some years ago that the instrument for which Bach wrote his Cello Suites was neither the instrument we know today nor ...
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter performs Bach's Sarabande in D minor BWV1004
Anne-Sophie Mutter, The Strad's December issue cover star, has spent 37 years on the concert stage, having made her performing debut in 1976 at the Lucerne Festival, playing Mozart’s D major Violin Concerto. To mark nearly four decades of music-making, The Strad has brought together some of ...
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ArticleGothenburg Symphony airport pop-up performance
Travellers passing through Göteborg Landvetter Airport in Sweden got more than surround-sound when they tried out four new ‘music chairs’ installed in the airport’s terminal building. The chairs, which have been commissioned by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (GSO), contain a sound system and screen, allowing passengers to ...
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ArticleGothenburg Symphony airport pop-up performance
Travellers passing through Göteborg Landvetter Airport in Sweden got more than surround-sound when they tried out four new ‘music chairs’ installed in the airport’s terminal building. The chairs, which have been commissioned by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (GSO), contain a sound system and screen, allowing passengers to ...
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Kim Kashkashian: ‘The emotional landscape of Hindemith's music is a joy to enter'
Paul Hindemith did more than any other composer of his era to champion the viola as a solo instrument. Fifty years after his death, the American violist Kim Kashkashian reflects on the rewards and challenges of his music
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ArticleThe Strad December 2013 issue is on sale now
The December issue of The Strad is now on sale. In this edition the German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter discusses her many-stranded approach to bringing classical music to the new generation, plus there is a chance to win one of ten copies of Mutter’s new Dvorák Violin Concerto ...
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FocusAsk the Experts – the new advice column from The Strad
Do you have a burning question about any aspect of the string world but have never known whom to ask?
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GalleryFrom the archive: a cello by Daniel Parker
This cello made by the 18th century English maker Daniel Parker appeared in the September 1930 issue of The Strad, accompanied by the following text (extract): No lions menaced our Daniel, his danger coming from humbler, duller creatures. Rarity of examples and the inflexibility of orthodoxy were the factors which ...
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ArticleTop lots from Skinner Auctioneers' November auction
Skinner Auctioneers has released the results of its November auction in Boston, US. Among the top lots for stringed instruments was a Nicolaus Gagliano violin (pictured) from Naples made in 1720, which fetched $168,000 on an estimate of $120,000–$140,000, and a modern violin from the School of ...
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ArticleJohnson String Instruments and Carriage House Violins merge
Two US violin shops based in Massachusetts, Johnson String Instruments and Carriage House Violins, have announced that they are to merge. The new company, Carriage House Violins of Johnson String instrument, will operate from the current Carriage House Violins shop premises at Newton Upper Falls. Carriage House ...
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ReviewPolish Violin Music. Works by Zarzycki, Noskowski, Drozdzewski, Górecki, Paderewski, Lutoslawski & Lipinski
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A fascinating traversal of a century and a half of virtuoso music from PolandMusicians: Kinga Augustyn (violin) Efi Hackmey (piano)Composer: Zarzycki, Noskowski, Drozdzewski, Górecki, Paderewski, Lutoslawski & Lipinski Five of these short works here receive world-premiere recordings. Aleksander ...
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ReviewEnescu: Piano Quintet op.29, Piano Trio in A minor, Aria and Scherzino
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Rare chamber works in scintillating performancesMusicians: Schubert Ensemble, Remus Azoitei (violin)Composer: EnescuEnescu wrote much music that he never heard or never had published, and manuscripts of long-lost chamber works still appear from time to time. Of the three pieces here, only the ...
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ArticleHow adaptive children are learning to play strings
In the December 2013 issue, Ohio-based string pedagogue Jennifer Petry explains how she helped set up a summer music camp in Cincinnati for young string players with limb differences. You can read her essential teaching tips here. This video is an example of what talented young ...
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FocusAdrian Anantawan on teaching kids with limb differences
Canadian violinist Adrian Anantawan was born without a right hand. He began studying the violin at the age of nine and attended the Curtis Institute of Music, where his teachers were Ida Kavafian and Yumi Ninomiya Scott. He has also studied with Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and ...
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Do you encourage viola students to bring chamber music parts to lessons?
Teacher Talk: your string teaching questions answered by our panel of experts
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ArticleChina's Sihao He wins Gaspar Cassado Competition
Sihao He, from Shanghai, has won first prize and around $15,000 at the Gaspar Cassado International Violoncello Competition in Hachioji, Japan. The 20-year-old performed Schumann's Cello Concerto in A minor op.129 in the final round at the Hachioji City Art & Cultural Hall, accompanied by the Tokyo ...
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ArticleViolinist Adrian Anantawan at TEDxCambridge
Canadian violinist and educator Adrian Anantawan believes that when it comes to disability we often look at limits when we should be asking how we might we enable the environment so that everyone can play. In our online interview he discusses adaptive playing and teaching children with limb ...
