All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 184
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ReviewEastern Promise: European violin sonatas
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: Three new albums of violin sonatas from central and eastern EuropeMusicians: Katrin ten Hagen (violin) & Christina Wright-Ivanova (piano); Frédéric Bednarz (violin) & Natsuki Hiratsuka (piano); Hideko Udagawa (violin) & Boris Berezovsky (piano)Composer: Prokofiev, Janácek, Bartók, Szymanowski, Shostakovich, KhachaturianIn ‘Eastern Impressions’ (ARS ...
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ArticleKarine Georgian performs Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations
Cellist Karine Georgian, who contributes a Practice Diary to The Strad's July 2014 issue, performs the cadenza and final two variations of Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yuri Simonov. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition ...
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ReviewCarter: String Quartets nos.1–5
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: A masterly completion of a much-lauded cycle of quartet performancesMusicians: Juilliard QuartetComposer: CarterThe Juilliard Quartet’s recordings of the first four of Elliott Carter’s thorny yet hugely influential string quartets have every right to be considered definitive – the Juilliard players worked closely with Carter on ...
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NewsStudy finds childhood musical training enhances cognitive brain function
Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital say a minimum of two years of private lessons boosts ‘executive functioning'
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ArticleHilary Hahn performs Korngold's Violin Concerto
Hilary Hahn performs Korngold's Violin Concerto with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Kent Nagano. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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NewsViolinist Ziyu He wins 2014 Eurovision Young Musicians competition
The 15-year-old performed Bartók's Second Violin Concerto in the final
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: the ‘Louis Spohr’ Guadagnini violin
This illustration of a violin by G.B. Guadagnini was published in The Strad, July 1930. The following text is extracted from an article accompanying the photographs: This instrument is one of the very finest specimens of the Turin work of Guadagnini in existence. It was privately possessed for many years, ...
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ArticleArto Noras performs Dvorák's Cello Concerto
Arto Noras, who has contributed a Masterclass on Penderecki's Suite for Solo Cello to The Strad's July 2014 issue, performs the first movement from Dvorák's Cello Concerto with the RTVE Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sergiu Comissiona.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a ...
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ReviewHytta: Draumsyn
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: Ancient and modern meet on a disc that brings new sounds to old instrumentsMusicians: Anne Hytta (Hardanger fiddle/viola d’amore/vielle)Composer: HyttaAnne Hytta is one of a number of players of Scandinavian traditional stringed instruments to be taking the folk music of the region in ...
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NewsViolinist and sex abuse victim Frances Andrade was in ‘incredible despair', inquest hears
The 48-year-old musician took her own life after giving evidence against former Chetham's School of Music teacher Michael Brewer
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ArticleItzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman perform Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante
Violinist Itzhak Perlman, who is interviewed in The Strad's July 2014 issue, performs Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, K364 with violist Pinchas Zukerman. Zubin Mehta conducts the Israel Philharmonic.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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News1710 ‘Ivashkin' Guarneri cello loaned to Canadian Korean artist Soo Bae
The instrument was previously on permanent loan to the late Russian cellist Alexander Ivashkin
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ArticleBaiba Skride performs Eichberg's 'Qilaatersorneq'
Baiba Skride, who appears on the cover of The Strad's July 2014 issue, performs Søren Nils Eichberg's Violin Concerto 'Qilaatersorneq' at the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition 2001 in Brussels, for which she was awarded first prize. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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ReviewPavans and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland. Works by Dowland, Purcell, Lawes, Jenkins, Morley & Locke
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: A skilled intermingling of melancholy and high spiritsMusicians: John Holloway, Monika Baer (violin/viola) Renate Steinmann, Susanna Hefti (viola) MartinuZeller (bass violin)Composer: Dowland, Purcell, Lawes, Jenkins, Morley & LockeJohn Dowland’s seven Lachrimae Pavans punctuate this CD, always gently moving, given impetus by the ...
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NewsCharles Castleman appointed professor of violin at Miami's Frost School of Music
The violinist is currently a professor at the Eastman School of Music in New York
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NewsUniversity of Michigan appoints violinist Danielle Belen to its string faculty
The musician is a seasoned pedagogue and member of the Colburn School violin faculty
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ReviewKhachaturian: Violin Concerto in D minor. Shostakovich: String Quartets no.7 in F sharp minor op.108 & no.8 in C minor op.110
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: The Canadian violinist in fine form as both soloist and quartet leaderMusicians: James Ehnes (violin) Ehnes Quartet, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/Mark WigglesworthComposer: Khachaturian,ShostakovichIf Khachaturian’s super-heated Concerto is normally sustained at a high emotional setting with its rapier-like thrust indulged to the maximum, James ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman on practising
'If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly. If you learn it quickly, you forget it almost immediately' Violinist Itzhak Perlman, who is interviewed in The Strad's July 2014 issue, answers questions about practice. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part ...
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Santo Serafino, Venice, 1737
This illustration of a violin by Santo Serafino was published in The Strad, May 1930. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: With Santo Serafino one has an exceptional instance among the great masters of instrument-making, of the development of beauty of appearance in his productions, ...
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ReviewLanggaard: String Quartets vol.2: Rose Garden Play, String Quartets in A flat major & no.4 ‘Summer Days’
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: A welcome volume in a new survey of the Danish composer’s quartetsMusicians: Nightingale QuartetComposer: LanggaardRued Langgaard (1893–1952) composed ten major works for string quartet, most of which date from the decade between 1915 and 1925. His Fourth Quartet (actually his eighth) appeared ...
