All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 154
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter performs Brahms's Violin Sonata no.2
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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ReviewTwentieth-century sonatas for cello and piano. Works by Bridge, Delius, Ireland, Rubbra, Clarke & Keys
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Consummate playing that mines a rich seam of British cello repertoireMusicians: Alexander Baillie (cello) John Thwaites (piano)Composer: Bridge, Delius, Ireland, Rubbra, Clarke & Keys This release of 20th-century British cello sonatas, recorded over a six-day period ...
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ReviewPerle: String Quartets no.2 in D minor op.14, no.5 & no.8 ‘Windows of Order’, Molto adagio
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Music for quartet from an American twelve-note pioneerMusicians: Daedalus QuartetComposer: Perle The music of highly regarded American composer George Perle (1915–2009, perhaps best remembered for his writings on Alban Berg) is not heard frequently on the ...
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ArticleBerlin declares viola 'Instrument of the Year 2014'
An annual citywide festival in Berlin that spotlights underrepresented musical instruments will turn its attention on the viola next year with a series of concerts, workshops and events at locations across the German capital. The year-long event, simply called ‘Instrument of the Year’, launched in 2011 with ...
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ArticleGothenburg Symphony launches airport ‘music chairs' with flashmob 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 ...
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter performs Massenet's Méditation from Thaïs
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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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter performs Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
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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ReviewProkofiev: Violin Sonatas no.1 in F minor op.80 & no.2 in D major op.94b, Three Pieces from Romeo and Juliet op.64 (arr. Grjunes)
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Accounts of Prokofiev that don’t quite hit the markMusicians: Vadim Gluzman (violin) Angela Yoffe (piano)Composer: Prokofiev Angela Yoffe introduces Prokofiev’s First Sonata in world-weary mood, but Vadim Gluzman eventually lifts the gloom with a delicate and wispy tracery. There are recordings of ...
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Focus12 inspiring quotes about string playing
2013: twelve great issues of The Strad; twelve great cover stars. Here are some of the pieces of wisdom and inspiration they shared with us: 1 ‘It's a very artificial situation to be on stage. I grew up with music at weddings and dance houses – a much ...
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GalleryFrom the archive: a violin by Giuseppe Guarneri ‘filius Andreae’ from 1718
This illustration of a violin by Giuseppe Guarneri ‘filius Andreae’ from 1718 was published in The Strad, October 1939. The following text is extracted from an article accompanying the photographs: This violin bears unmistakable signs of having been constructed in a hurry. The purfling, for instance, was obviously hastily prepared; ...
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ArticleThe Carducci Quartet performs Mendelssohn's String Quartet no.6
The Carducci Quartet performs Mendelssohn's String Quartet no.6 in F minor op.80 at Kings Place in 2012. An interview with Matthew Denton and Emma Denton, the quartet's first violinist and cellist respectively, is published in The Strad, December 2013 (see Double Acts back page feature). Subscribe to The ...
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ArticleBrussels Philharmonic string players to benefit from new instrument investment scheme
The Brussels Philharmonic has set up a new instrument foundation to help investors and philanthropists purchase musical instruments to be played by the orchestra’s musicians. The Brussels Philharmonic Foundation has been created with stringed instruments in particular in mind, being on average the most costly of orchestral ...
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ArticleEastern Europeans dominate at third Toru? International Violin Competition
Four Eastern Europeans and two South Koreans made it to the final round of this year’s International Violin Competition in Toru?, Poland, which ran from 23 November–2 December. The top prize of €12,000 went to Polish violinist Anna Malesza (pictured), a student of Marcin Baranowski at the Academy ...
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ReviewRöntgen: Cello Concertos nos.1–3
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Three Romantically melodic concertos played with style Musicians: Gregor Horsch (cello) Netherlands Symphony Orchestra/David PorcelijnComposer: RöntgenJulius Röntgen (1855–1932), all but forgotten today, was a key player in German and Dutch musical life in his long and productive career. Although ...
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ArticleSigiswald Kuijken performs Vivaldi's Concerto for Violoncello da Spalla in D
Belgian violinist, violist and conductor Sigiswald Kuijken will perform and direct Vivaldi's Concerto for Violoncello da Spalla in D with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London on 25 March 2014. Click here to read the news story. Subscribe to The Strad ...
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ArticleExtinct stringed instrument to make its London debut
A small-scale cello that sits against the shoulder and is played like a violin will make its London debut as part of a programme from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) on 25 March at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre. The 18th century violoncello da ...
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ArticleStolen ‘ex-Kym' Stradivarius violin fetches £1.385m at auction
The Stradivarius violin belonging to London-based violinist Min-Jin Kym that was stolen at a Pret a Manger sandwich bar in London’s Euston Station in November 2010 and later recovered by police, has sold for £1.385m ($2.27m) at auction. The sale price exceeds the £1.2m valuation attached to ...
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ArticleSistema Scotland to launch Big Noise project in Aberdeen
Sistema Scotland, the five-year-old youth music programme based on Venezuela’s El Sistema, has announced plans for its third children’s orchestra project in Scotland. Big Noise Torry will be based in the Torry area of Aberdeen and involve children from several local schools. The aim is to have ...
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ArticleBig Noise Raploch performing with the BBC SSO
In the spring of 2011 members of Raploch's Big Noise orchestra played side by side with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at City Halls in Glasgow. None of the children from this, the UK's first El Sistema-inspired orchestra, had played for more than two and a half ...
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GalleryThe secret history of the world's oldest cello
How CT scanning reveals the hidden past of Amati's 'King' cello Researchers at the National Music Museum in South Dakota, US, are using hospital CT 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 ...
