All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 153
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ArticleBowdoin Music Festival names string-playing brothers as new directors
Violist Phillip Ying and his brother, cellist David Ying, are to take over as co-artistic directors of the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine, US, from the close of the festival's 50th anniversary season in 2014. The Yings succeed founder artistic director Lewis Kaplan, who launched ...
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ReviewGlière: Complete Duets with Cello: Eight Duets for violin and cello op.39, Ballade for cello and piano op.4, Ten Duets for two cellos op.53, Twelve Album Leaves for cello and piano op.51
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Committed accounts of duos for various combinationsMusicians: MartinuRummel, Alexander Hülshoff (cello) Friedemann Eichhorn (violin) Till Alexander Körber (piano)Composer: Glière As Reinhold Glière was a student of Arensky and Taneyev, it’s little wonder that he was steeped ...
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ArticleGaspar Cassado Competition winner Sihao He plays Bach
Sihao He, who recently won the Gaspar Cassado International Violoncello Competition, plays Bach's Cello Suite no.3 in C major BWV1009 at Brevard Music Center in North Carolina, US. Our Gaspar Cassado Competition news story contains a video of Sihao performing at the competition. Subscribe to The Strad or download our ...
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ArticleViola player and pedagogue John White dies
Tully Potter pays tribute to a violist who influenced a generation of British players
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DebateDo top ten lists miss the whole point of music?
The compulsion to rank performers by number denies the subtlety and diversity of their craft, argues Ariane Todes
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter performs Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
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. The Strad celebrates Mutter's remarkable career by bringing together some of the finest filmed ...
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
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 the ...
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ArticleCremonese luthiers shape their craft
This photograph by Italian artist Ettore Favini is one of a series called Ipotesi di Finito #4 – Dare forma alla cultura – a collaborative project involving people who work in libraries, museums, theatres, palaces and other cultural locations in Cremona. For each photo site, the artist asks ...
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FocusA luthier's tribute to Nelson Mandela
Inspired by South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize winners, luthier Brian Lisus made a quartet of instruments that could spread a message of reconciliation and help some of the world's poorest children to make music. Peter Somerford traces its evolution
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ReviewHandel's Concerti grossi op.6
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A novel approach to instrumentation can’t make up for lacklustre playingMusicians: Arcadia Ensemble/Kevin Mallon (violin/director)Composer: HandelThis take on Handel’s op.6 concerto grosso set from this Toronto-based period-instrument ensemble not only includes the composer’s oboe parts for nos.1, 2, 5 and 6, but also ...
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GalleryFrom the archive: a violin by Pietro Guarneri of Venice, 1737
This instrument by Petrus Guarnerius, Venice, 1737, is published in The Strad, January 1928. The following extract is taken from text accompanying the photographs: Known by the name of Petrus of Venice, to distinguish him from his uncle of the same name who worked for many years in Mantua, our ...
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ReviewKuusisto: Violin Concerto op.28, Leika op.24. Corigliano: Violin Concerto ‘The Red Violin’
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Passionate accounts of two modern violin concertosMusicians: Elina Vähälä (violin) Lahti Symphony Orchestra/Jaakko KuusistoComposer: Kuusisto, Corigliano Jaakko Kuusisto originally conceived his Violin Concerto for himself, but then handed it over, and dedicated it, to Elina Vähälä. It follows a ...
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ReviewD. Matthews: Music for Solo Violin vol.1: Three Studies op.39, 15 Fugues op.88, Winter Journey op.32
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Solo violin works that run the gamut of technique and expressionMusicians: Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin)Composer: D. MatthewsThis disc represents roughly half of David Matthews’s output for solo violin and highlights the composer’s insight into writing for the instrument, despite not being a player himself. ...
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter performs Beethoven's Triple Concerto
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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FocusGerman cellist Maria Kliegel on her mission to meet Nelson Mandela
She tells Naomi Sadler why she spent two years on a quest to present the late former South African president with a musical homage
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Focus10 things you need to know about the string world
Your rough guide to the string music business
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter performs Mozart's Sonata K547
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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ArticleBassist designs scordatura pedals for real-time retuning
A young US double bassist and composer is developing a pedal system to allow bass players to change the pitch of strings while playing. Carter Callison, a doctoral student and Manson Composition Fellow at London's Royal Academy of Music, has raised $8,000 through crowdfunding website Kickstarter ...
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ArticleMusicians forced to take instruments without cases on board flight
Three members of the French string quartet Quatuor Voce were requested to remove their stringed instruments from their cases before taking them on board a flight, the ensemble reported on Twitter. The musicians were at Paris's Orly Airport booked on a flight with the Spanish airline Vueling ...
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ReviewMunch Suite. Pieces for solo violin by Müller, Kernis, Seabourne, Paus, Kleiberg, Kukal, Hakim, Firsova, Martinsson, Kahane, Tzanou, Nelson, Kovác, Thommessen & Petitgirard
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: An appealing presentation of modern music and fine artMusicians: Henning Kraggerud (violin)Composer: Müller, Kernis, Seabourne, Paus, Kleiberg, Kukal, Hakim, Firsova, Martinuson, Kahane, Tzanou, Nelson, Ková?, Thommessen & PetitgirardThe organisers of Norway’s Vestfold International Festival in 2010 commissioned 15 new solo violin pieces for ...
