All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 160
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ArticleVadim Repin
Vadim Repin was born in Novosibirsk, Western Siberia in 1971. His association with the violin came about by chance when his mother took him to a music course to study the accordion, but the only place left was on the violin course. A child prodigy, he won ...
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ArticleRuggiero Ricci
Born in California to Italian parents, the American violinist Ruggiero Ricci started the violin aged seven, studying with Louis Persinger and Elizabeth Lackey. He gave his first public performance aged 10 in San Francisco, where he played worked by Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski, and soon afterwards he made ...
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ArticleTabea Zimmermann
Born in Lahr, Germany, Tabea Zimmermann began learning the viola at the age of three before studying with Ulrich Koch at the Musikhochschule Freiburg and subsequently with Sándor Végh at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg. Her career was launched by winning in quick succession the Geneva, Maurice ...
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ArticleDanish violin maker Lise Jørgensen dies aged 51
Danish violin maker and restorer Lise Ingeborg Jørgensen has died aged 51 following a long battle with cancer. Jørgensen became interested in violins while at school, and at 19 began training at the Pauli Merling Violin workshop in Copenhagen under the guidance of maker and restorer Poul ...
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ArticleViolist Maxim Rysanov performs Bach Cello Suites
Russian-born violist Maxim Rysanov performs Bach's Cello Suites nos. 1, 4 and 5. In the January issue, the viola player discusses practising Bach's Cello Suites arranged for viola. Click here to read about his detailed warm-up regimen. Rysanov's recording of Bach's Cello Suites nos. 2, 3 ...
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DebateAre the achievements of El Sistema the tip of the iceberg?
The results of Sistema-based social programmes are almost impossible to quantify – but as Jonathan Govias argues, the potential of ‘the system' is boundless
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ArticleZoë Keating performs Lost from her album Into The Trees
California-based cellist Zoë Keating performs her composition Lost from her album Into The Trees.Read our cover interview with Zoë Keating in the January 'Fresh Thinking' issue of The Strad.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial.
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ReviewLigeti: Violin Concerto, Lontano, Atmosphères, San Francisco Polyphony
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: A sonically impressive account of a masterly violin concertoMusicians: Benjamin Schmid (violin) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu (conductor)Composer: LigetiConductor Hannu Lintu goes as far as to refer to Ligeti as a Romantic composer in his informative booklet notes to this beautifully delivered ...
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ReviewPaganini: The Twenty-four Caprices op.1
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: Unusually exploratory performances of a well-known set of virtuoso studiesMusicians: Ilya Gringolts (violin)Composer: PaganiniModern pedagogy (and strings) make the challenges of these Caprices more surmountable today than in Paganini’s times, but few recordings search out the musical depths as convincingly as the ...
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FocusCellist Gary Hoffman on Brahms, bowings, fingerings, and finding the perfect tempo
The cellist, who gives our January Masterclass, shares his deeply philosophical approach to the instrument
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ArticleZoë Keating's Sun Will Set - video
The video to Canadian cellist Zoë Keating's piece Sun Will Set, from her album One Cello x 16: Natoma.Read our cover interview with Zoë Keating in the January 'Fresh Thinking' issue of The Strad.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free ...
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ArticleViolinist Augustin Hadelich to make Walt Disney Concert Hall debut
He replaces Christian Tetzlaff, who has pulled out of the LA Phil concerts due to illness
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ArticleThe Strad Features Index available to download
Looking for a specific article published in The Strad magazine? You can now download The Strad features indexes from the past four years, 2010 to 2013, by clicking on the PDFs below. Each index includes every article published in The Strad magazine and supplements that year, and ...
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ArticleGary Hoffman performs Bruch's Kol Nidrei
Gary Hoffman gives a Masterclass on Brahms's Third Cello Sonata in our January issue. Here he performs Bruch's Kol Nidrei with the Indiana University orchestra in a 75th birthday tribute to János Starker.Read some of Gary Hoffman's cello insights here and download the digital edition of the January ...
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ArticleThe Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments to celebrate Will Kemp's 100-mile dance
The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments will celebrate the antics of the 16th-century Shakespearean actor Will Kemp this month when it recreates his famous nine-day dance from London to Norwich with a programme of music performed on contemporary instruments - including reconstructions of rare and obsolete ...
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ArticleZoë Keating performs JoCo Cruise Crazy 3
The Strad January issue cover star Zoë Keating performs her composition JoCo Cruise Crazy 3.To read the interview, download the digital edition of the January issue here or subscribe to The Strad.
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GalleryThe Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments
Founded by Clare Salaman in 2010, the Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments perform folk songs and dances, Medieval, Renaissance and Classical music from the 13th to the 18th centuries, and newly composed works on instruments including hurdy gurdy, viola d’amore, viola da gamba and harpsichord. The group takes its ...
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ArticleGary Hoffman performs Brahms's Piano Quintet in F minor
Cellist Gary Hoffman, who gives a Masterclass on Brahms in our January 2014 issue, here performs the fourth movement of the composer's great Piano Quintet in F minor with a stellar team of violinists Pinchas Zukerman, Ida Kavafian, violist Paul Neubauer and David Golub on piano, in ...
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ReviewProkofiev: Violin Concertos no.1 in D major op.19 & no.2 in G minor op.63, Sonata for two violins in C major op.56, Sonata for solo violin in D major op.115, Violin Sonatas no.1 in F minor op 80 & no.
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2014Description: An outstanding collection of Prokofiev’s complete music for violinMusicians: James Ehnes, Amy Schwartz Moretti (violin) Andrew Armstrong (piano) BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea NosedaComposer: ProkofievGianandrea Noseda quietly raises the orchestral curtain on a performance of Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto that is arguably the ...
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ArticleViolinist Nemanja Radulović signs an international contract with DG
The 28-year-old Serbian recorded a Paganini album for DG France last year
