All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 186
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ArticleTamsin Waley-Cohen performs Vaughan-Williams's The Lark Ascending
Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen, who has written a Practice Diary for The Strad's August 2014 issue, performs Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending with The Orchestra of the Swan. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single ...
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NewsViolinist Shlomo Mintz named Queensland Symphony Orchestra soloist-in-residence
The artist will join the orchestra as its inaugural resident soloist in 2015
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NewsISM's Protect Music Education secures £17m in extra funding for UK children
The Incorporated Society of Musicians' project was launched in April in response to proposed government cuts
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NewsJoshua Bell renews music director contract with Academy of St Martin in the Fields
The violinist has signed a three-year extension until summer 2017
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ReviewNordic Cello Soul. Sibelius: Andantino in C major, Andantino molto in F minor, Lulu Waltz in F sharp minor, Theme and variations. Lidholm: Quattro pezzi. Grieg: Intermezzo in A minor, Cello Sonata in
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: No revelations in this exploration of some byways of Nordic cello musicHampus Linderholm (cello) Mats JanssonMusicians: Hampus Linderholm (cello) Mats Jansson (piano)Composer: Sibelius, Lidholm, GriegEarly works by major composers are often hit or miss. Unfortunately, Sibelius’s juvenile cello works are entirely unexceptional: ...
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NewsJapanese student wins violin category of International Bach Competition
Seiji Okamoto triumphed at the final, held in Leipzig, Germany on 18 July
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ArticleViolinist Joshua Bell busks in a Washington DC metro station
It's been a few years since star violinist Joshua Bell performed Bach incognito in a Washington DC metro station - an experiment organised by the Washington Post to discover 'in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? ...
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ReviewPurcell: 10 Sonatas in Four Parts
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2014Description: Gems from the English Baroque played with grace and dexterityMusicians: The King’s Consort/Robert KingComposer: PurcellThe cover photograph of scattered diamonds feels entirely apt once you listen to the disc, for each of these works is indeed a jewel. Gathered together for ...
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ArticleHenschel Quartet performs Beethoven's String Quartet no.9
The Henschel Quartet, which has contributed a masterclass feature on Schulhoff's Five Pieces for String Quartet to The Strad's August 2014 issue, performs the first movement of Beethoven's 'Razumovsky' String Quartet no.9 in Tokyo. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of ...
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NewsViolinist Hilary Hahn cancels all performances for six weeks
The star performer is suffering from an inflamed muscle
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BlogsSally Beamish on writing her war-themed Violin Concerto
With the work's imminent London premiere by Anthony Marwood at the BBC Proms on 1 August, the composer remembers its ‘difficult birth'
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NewsViolinist and pedagogue Ik-Hwan Bae has died aged 57
The South-Korean-born artist taught at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music
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ArticleLisa Batiashvili performs Bach's Concerto for Violin and Oboe
Violinist Lisa Batiashvili, who has written 5 tips for playing Bach for The Strad's website, performs the composer's Concerto for Violin and Oboe, BWV1060R with her husband, oboist François Leleux, and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Christian Zacharias. Subscribe to The Strad or download our ...
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NewsLipinski Stradivarius violin thief receives three-and-a-half-year prison sentence
Universal Knowledge Allah admitted supplying the Taser used to attack Milwaukee Symphony concertmaster Frank Almond
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ReviewYsaÿe: Sonatas for Solo Violin op.27
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2014Description: Performances of substance from a young Chinese violinistMusicians: Tianwa Yang (violin)Composer: YsaÿeThere’s always the danger that violinists will get caught out by the mould-breaking technical invention of Ysaÿe’s visionary six solo sonatas. Or that, having surmounted their almost insuperable challenges, the ...
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ReviewBeethoven: Complete String Quartets vol.3: Quartets in C minor op.18 no.4 & in F major op.59 no.1 (Rasumovsky), Grosse Fuge in B flat major op.133
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: Beethoven with drive that barely lets upMusicians: Cremona QuartetComposer: BeethovenThere’s no shortage of bite or energy in the third instalment of the Cremona Quartet’s survey of Beethoven’s string quartets. The instruments speak with crisp articulation and the players don’t hold back in ...
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NewsViolinist Frances Andrade ‘failed' by mental health services, says coroner
The 48-year-old musician took her own life after giving evidence of sexual abuse against former Chetham's School of Music teacher Michael Brewer
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: a cello by C.G. Testore
This illustration of a cello by Carlo Giuseppe Testore was published in The Strad, July 1913. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: The very interesting violoncello featured this month belonged at one time to Piatti, who sometimes played upon it in public and thought very ...
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NewsMusic competitions are rife with corruption, says cellist Julian Lloyd Webber
The British musician claims many competitions exist ‘only as a way for teachers to promote their own pupils'
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ArticleGidon Kremer performs Kreisler's Liebesleid
To mark the official centenary of the beginning of the First World War today, here's violinist Gidon Kremer performing Kreisler's Liebesleid with pianist Martha Argerich. Kreisler fought and was wounded in the first year of the Great War, and subsequently performed concerts throughout America, despite prejudice against ...
