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NewsThe Strad March 2015 issue is out now
Danish violinist Nikolaj Znaider and fellow soloist-conductors, including Joshua Bell and Maxim Vengerov, explain the attraction of the podium
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ReviewVaughan Williams: Violin Concerto, The Lark Ascending. Elgar: Introduction and Allegro, Serenade for Strings
The Strad Issue: February 2015Description: A disappointing revival of a little-known concertoMusicians: Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin) Orchestra of the Swan/David CurtisComposer: Vaughan Williams, ElgarWritten for Jelly d’Arányi (who, the composer thought, took scant advantage of her six-month exclusive performing period), Vaughan Williams’s Violin Concerto has few champions even ...
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BlogsViolinist Nikolaj Znaider on the importance of practising basics
The Strad’s March 2015 cover star advocates shorter bursts of more concentrated practice
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ArticleJoshua Bell performs Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Joshua Bell, who talks to The Strad about the art of conducting, performs and directs Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for the Pharos Arts Foundation in Nicosia, Cyprus.The Strad's March 2015 issue, out now, investigates the increasing number of string players ...
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BlogsViolinist Joshua Bell on the art of conducting
In 2011 the Grammy Award-winning artist became music director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, where he conducts from the concertmaster’s chair
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ArticleRo-Bow † a self-playing 'kinetic sculpture' violin
Following our look at the Mills Violano Virtuoso† a self-playing violin invented in the early 1900s † engineer Seth Goldstein has invented the Ro-Bow, which moves bow, violin and mechanical fingers via electromagnetic technology. Read about the Campanula† featuring four playing and twelve sympathetic ...
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ReviewMozart: String Quartet no.21 in D major K575. Ives: String Quartet no.2. Verdi: String Quartet
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: March 2015Description: A brilliant young quartet in contrasting works from three centuriesMusicians: Schumann QuartetComposer: Mozart, Ives, VerdiThis is the Schumann Quartet’s eagerly awaited follow-up to its outstanding 2013 debut disc of Beethoven, Bartók and Brahms. Lithe, tonally transparent, sparklingly articulated, finely vibratoed, ...
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News24-year-old Friederike Starkloff named NDR Radiophilharmonie concertmaster
The violinist replaces Volker Worlitzsch with the Hanover orchestra
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ReviewJohanna Martzy Vol.3. Works by Vivaldi, Szymanowski, Martinu¯, Ravel, Bartók, Brahms, Falla, Mozart, Bach & Suk
The Strad Issue: February 2015Description: Welcome exposure for the artistry of a neglected Hungarian virtuosoMusicians: Johanna Martzy (violin) Adolph Hallis, István Hajdu (piano) Stuttgart Radio Orchestra/Hans Müller-Kray, Netherlands Radio Orchestra/Willem van Otterloo, New York Philharmonic/André Cluytens, Cleveland Orchestra/George SzellComposer: Vivaldi, Szymanowski, Martinu¯, Ravel, Bartók, Brahms, Falla, Mozart, ...
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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov on blending your sound with other instruments
You have to forget sometimes that you play the violin. Use it to express the sound of the music and to integrate with the orchestra'Violinist Maxim Vengerov gives a masterclass on Britten’s Violin Concerto at the Royal Academy of Music, London. The full 50-minute video is available to ...
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BlogsFinding your perfect stringed instrument
Jean-Jacques Rampal of Vatelot–Rampal Luthiers, Paris, tells Pauline Harding about the challenges of matching musicians with their ideal musical partners
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ReviewC.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos in A minor, B flat major & A major Wq170–2
The Strad Issue: March 2015Description: Contemporary cadenzas shed new light on Carl Philipp EmanuelMusicians: Konstantin Manaev (cello) Berlin CamerataComposer: C.P.E. Bach‘Polystylistic’ is not a word one would expect to apply to a disc of C.P.E. Bach concertos, however revolutionary his writing may have been. The addition of ...
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ReviewRomance oubliée. Sitt: Albumblätter op.39. Glazunov: Elegy op.44. Vierne: Two Pieces. Vieuxtemps: Élégie op.30. Wieniawski: Rêverie. Liszt: Romance oubliée. Kreisler: Romance; Aucassin et Nicolette. K
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: March 2015Description: Zimmermann takes a break from Hindemith with a selection of viola lollipopsMusicians: Tabea Zimmermann (viola) Thomas Hoppe (piano)Composer: SItt, Glazunov, Vierne, Vieuxtemps, Wieniawski, Liszt, Kreisler, KodályIn contrast to her Hindemithian labours of the last couple of years, for this recording ...
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NewsAustralian Chamber Orchestra teams with Spotify to release live recordings
The six concert performances will be released throughout 2015
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ArticleDavid Oistrakh performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
Legendary violinist David Oistrakh gives a full-bodied performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Gennadi Roshdestwenski in 1963. 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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NewsEaling Strings director Alan Mann dies aged 71
Alan Mann, co-founder of Ealing Strings music shop in London, has died aged 71. For more than four decades he attended to the instruments of string players from around the globe; regular customers based in the British capital included Gyorgy Pauk, Robert Smissen, Paul Silverthorne and Thomas Gould.Born ...
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Article2Cellos perform Hysteria by Muse
2Cellos † Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser † perform their arrangement of Hysteria by rock band Muse, filmed in a mental hospital in Pula, Croatia. Watch the duo perform their arrangement of AC/DC's Thunderstruck with fellow cellists Mischa Maisky and Giovanni Sollima at Cello Biennale Amsterdam 2014. ...
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NewsA bow hair disaster
A violinist is taken by surprise when the majority of her bow hair suddenly detaches from the point - midway through a performance of Kreisler's Tambourin Chinois.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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NewsStudy finds classical music has a calming effect on dogs
Research was undertaken by the Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the University of Glasgow
