All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 203
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FocusHow to master staccato bowing, by cellist Xavier Phillips
The French cello soloist and chamber musician explains how, with practice and patience, the challenges of staccato playing can be overcome
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ReviewKuhlau: Violin Sonatas vol.1: Sonatas in E flat major op.64, in F major op.79 no.1, in A minor op.79 no.2 & in C major op.79 no.3
The Strad Issue: December 2014Description: Largely successful accounts of sonatas by the German—Danish composerMusicians: Duo Šstrand/SaloComposer: KuhlauPursuing their mission to disseminate Danish music, Christina Šstrand and Per Salo champion four sonatas by native German Friedrich Kuhlau, who took Danish citizenship in 1813. The works date from the ...
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ReviewMoór: Cello Concerto no.2 in C sharp minor, op.64, Concerto in D major for two cellos and orchestra op.691, Prelude in E major op.123
The Strad Issue: December 2014Description: Beautiful playing of neglected repertoireMusicians: Péter Szabó, Ildikó Szabó (cello), Miskolc Symphony Orchestra/Zsolt HamarComposer: MoórIn 1910 Pablo Casals made his Viennese debut playing the second cello concerto of his friend, the irascible Hungarian Emanuel Moór. Casals and Moór had met in 1905 ...
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NewsViolinist and Concord String Quartet founder Mark Sokol has died aged 68
The artist was also a professor at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music
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BlogsWas violinist Kyung Wha Chung right to berate a coughing child during her recital?
The artist was reportedly unimpressed at the amount of audience noise during her London comeback this week, writes Charlotte Smith
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù violin, 1736
This illustration of a Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù violin was published in The Strad, July 1915. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:This instrument has the most beautiful tone. It measures 13 ¾ inches in length of body, upper bouts 6 9/16 inches across, lower bouts ...
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NewsRussian cellist Rustem Khamidullin wins 2014 Gisborne Competition in New Zealand
The 25-year-old competed against international players of multiple orchestral instruments
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NewsSwiss youth orchestra denied access to Singapore Airlines flight with their instruments
Despite completing the outward journey to Hong Kong without incident, the LGT Young Soloists were told by airline staff that policy prohibits violins and violas as carry-on baggage
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NewsViolinist-turned-Olympian Vanessa-Mae appeals against four-year skiing ban
The artist called the International Ski Federation’s ruling of score manipulation ‘nonsensical’
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ArticleSamba violins rehearse for the League of X-traordinary Musicians
Violinists rehearsing for Igudesman & Joo's 'League of X-traordinary Musicians' at the Vienna Konzerthaus on 31 December 2014 demonstrate impressive dance moves.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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ArticleMischa Maisky performs Haydn's Cello Concerto no.1
Mischa Maisky performs the third movement Finale from Haydn's Cello Concerto no.1 in C with Kremerata Baltica in November 2006.Watch Maisky in a less conventional performance of AC/DC's Thunderstruck with 2Cellos.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase ...
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ReviewPaganini: 24 Caprices op.1
The Strad Issue: December 2014Description: An effective attempt at ‘authentic’ Paganini let down by poor intonationMusicians: Roberto Noferini (violin)Composer: PaganiniI have reviewed some excellent recordings of Paganini’s op.1 in my time, but this is the first to come my way using gut strings and an early 19th-century ...
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BlogsArranging Debussy’s La Mer for piano trio by Sally Beamish
The arrangement has been recorded by Trio Apaches for Orchard Classics
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ArticleViolinist Joshua Bell performs Summer from Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Violinist Joshua Bell performs the Summer Presto from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.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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NewsCellist David Watkin named Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Head of Strings
The Eroica Quartet musician is an experienced educator and scholar
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ReviewPanufnik: String Quartets nos.1—3. Lutoslawski: String Quartet
The Strad Issue: December 2014Description: Two contrasting strands of 20th-century Polish musicMusicians: Tippett QuartetComposer: Panufnik, LutoslawskiA striking aspect of the iridescent sound world of Lutoslawski’s String Quartet, given the high degree of aleatoric freedom involved – within episodes, individual gestures are left deliberately uncoordinated – is how ...
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GalleryThe Campanula, featuring 16 sympathetic strings
The Campanula, a 20-stringed instrument named after the bell flower, was given a rare outing at the Musical Instrument Museum in Berlin during November, performed by Berlin Philharmonic cellist Georg Faust. The concert of Bach and Mozart followed the first Campanula Festival, held in the small town of ...
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FocusViolin professor Maya Glezarova turns 90: former students pay tribute
Mikhail Kopelman, Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Liana Gourdjia recall their studies with the doyenne of the Russian School of violin playing
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NewsSingapore Airlines apologises to Swiss musicians for denying access with their instruments
Youth orchestra, the LGT Young Soloists, were told by airline staff that policy prohibits violins and violas as carry-on baggage
