All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 210
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GalleryFrom the Archive: Antonio Stradivarius ‘Goddard’ violin, Cremona, 1686
This illustration of the ‘Goddard’ Stradivarius violin was published in The Strad, May 1964. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:This Stradivarius was made at the period when – to quote Messers Hill – Stradivarius ‘reached the plentitude of his powers as a craftsman’.The Strad is ...
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ArticleBBC documentary investigates the life and work of Stradivarius - part 2
Clemency Burton-Hill investigates the life and work of Antonio Stradivari in a BBC documentary from 2013, including close-up analysis of his ‘Serdet’, ‘Viotti’ and ‘Messiah’ violins. Violinist Jennifer Pike also takes part. Watch part one of the programme.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part ...
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NewsInternational Boris Goldstein Violin Competition responds to criticism
The event was accused of favouring students of its founder and jury chair, Zakhar Bron, writes Rebecca Schmid
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ArticleJascha Heifetz performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
Legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz makes short work of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto first movement. 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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ArticleViolinist Jascha Heifetz performs Mozart aged eleven
Legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz performs Mozart's Gavotte in G from Idomeneo, transcribed by Leopold Auer, aged just eleven. The performance was recorded on wax cylinder in 1912. Read The Strad's first mention of the young Heifetz, published in October 1912. Subscribe to The Strad or download our ...
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NewsMunich will not be granted a new concert hall
The city’s existing Philharmonie im Gasteig will instead be renovated to improve its acoustics
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ArticleViolincopter: how to make a violin soar
One of the web's more bizarre videos... What do you get if you combine a violin with a helicopter? A violincopter of course! Watch Alejo Pesce's instrument fly...Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click ...
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NewsEduardo Ríos wins Sphinx Competition $50,000 first prize
The annual Detroit contest, including senior and junior divisions, is open to black and Latino US string players
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ReviewPrayer. Bloch: From Jewish Life (orch. Palmer), ‘Nigun’ from Baal Shem no.2 (orch. Purich), Méditation hébraïque, Schelomo. Shostakovich: From Jewish Folk Poetry (selection, arr. Bronner). Casals: Son
The Strad Issue: February 2015Description: Idiomatic playing on a disc centred on Bloch’s Hebrew worksMusicians: Sol Gabetta (cello) Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Candida Thompson, Orchestre National de Lyon/Leonard Slatkin, Amsterdam Sinfonietta Cello EnsembleComposer: Bloch, Shostakovich, CasalsSol Gabetta has truly got under the skin of Bloch’s Hebraically inspired compositions, understanding their ...
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ArticleCellists Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber perform Piazzolla
Julian Lloyd Webber and his wife Jiaxin play The Little Beggar Boy by Piazzolla with pianist Pam Chowhan in 2013.The performance feature's Lloyd Webber's 'Barjansky' Stradivarius cello, which the artist is now to sell following his retirement from performing.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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NewsJulian Lloyd Webber to sell his Stradivarius cello
The cellist was forced to retire from performing last year due to a neck injury
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NewsKristen Bruya appointed Minnesota Orchestra principal double bass
The musician was formerly assistant principal bass of the Toronto Symphony
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ReviewBrahms: String Sextets no.1 in B flat major op.18 & no.2 in G major op.36
The Strad Issue: February 2015Description: Performances that could have benefited from greater depthMusicians: Sine Nomine Quartet, Nicolas Pache (viola) François Guye (cello)Composer: BrahmsThis Lausanne-based ensemble provides a pleasant disc of Brahms’s essays in the string sextet medium. Things begin well enough with op.36, arguably the more successful ...
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ReviewDvorák: Cello Concerto in B minor op.104, Romantic Pieces op.75 (arr. Müller-Schott), Silent Woods op.68 no.5, Rondo in G minor op.94, Slavonic Dance op.46 no.8, Songs My Mother Taught Me op.55 no.4
The Strad Issue: February 2015Description: Interesting couplings go some way to making up for an over-earnest concerto performanceMusicians: Daniel Müller-Schott (cello) Robert Kulek (piano) NDR Symphony Orchestra/Michael SanderlingComposer: DvorákWith well over a hundred recordings of Dvorák’s Cello Concerto in the catalogue – many from fine cellists – ...
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ArticleGlenn Donnellan plays his electric baseball bat violin
National Symphony Orchestra violinist Glenn Donnellan plays the American national anthem at a Washington Nationals game on his 'Electric Slugger', an electric violin he made himself from a Louisville Slugger baseball bat. Skip to 1.30mins for the beginning of his performance.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital ...
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ArticleSydney Symphony Orchestra presents Visions of Vienna
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra's 'Greatest Hits from Vienna' concert, conducted by Ola Rudner, was captured at various angles by 14 cameras and projected live onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House on 4 February 2015. The performance was enjoyed not only by live audiences in Sydney, ...
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ReviewFranck: Violin Sonata in A major. Grieg: Violin Sonata no.3 in C minor op.45. Dvorák: Romantic Pieces op.75
The Strad Issue: February 2015Description: Masterly accounts of three Romantic masterpiecesMusicians: Renaud Capuçon (violin) Khatia Buniatishvili (piano)Composer: Franck, Grieg, DvorákThis is a strong performance of Franck’s Violin Sonata. The first-movement Allegretto, for all its undoubted poetic sensitivity, is forthright and forward-moving, with firm direction and shape. Khatia ...
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NewsValery Gergiev announces Tchaikovsky Competition 2015 judges
A number of today's leading names will join the violin, cello, piano and voice panels this summer
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NewsVideo: violinist Hilary Hahn wins 2015 Grammy Award for ‘In 27 Pieces’ album
Hahn shares the Best Chamber Music prize with her piano collaborator Cory Smythe
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NewsCellos are too big to be transported in the cabin, says airline
Air Canada refused to sell Richard Harwood an extra ticket for his cello as it exceeded the requisite dimensions, according to the musician
