All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 219
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ReviewUnder the Stars. Works by Spencer, Bull, Debussy, Elgar, Bizet/Hubay, Hubay, Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, Kreisler, Fauré, Brahms, Shostakovich and Siem
The Strad Issue: April 2015Description: Starry violinist dazzles and charms in a disc of encore piecesMusicians: Charlie Siem (violin) Munich Radio Orchestra/Paul GoodwinComposer: Spencer, Bull, Debussy, Elgar, Bizet/Hubay, Hubay, Dvorˇák, Tchaikovsky, Kreisler, Fauré, Brahms, Shostakovich and SiemThis disc features a generous mix of virtuoso fireworks and sweetmeats ...
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NewsGerman musical instrument sales increase despite decline in string sector
The figures from the Society of Music Merchants record a seven percent increase in 2014
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ArticleViolinist Gil Shaham plays Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen
Gil Shaham performs the Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen in Japan in 2007. Watch the violinist perform Bach's Gavotte en rondeau as an encore. 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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BlogsRecreating Vivaldi’s violino in tromba marina
La Serenissima director and violinist Adrian Chandler describes the process of resurrecting the unusual instrument in preparation for a series of performances
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NewsObituary: British cellist Jennifer Ward Clarke
Born June 20 1935, the artist and teacher was a leading figure in the period instrument movement
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NewsRobin Scott joins Ying Quartet as first violinist
The American musician also becomes a faculty member of the Eastman School of Music, where the ensemble is the string quartet in residence
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GalleryQuad City Symphony Orchestra launches ‘100 Years, 100 Cellos’
The Quad City Symphony Orchestra, which this year celebrates its 100th anniversary, has launched '100 Years, 100 Cellos', aimed at raising funds for its music education programmes. One hundred cellos have been transformed by artists from the Quad-City area † the region of four counties in northwest ...
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ReviewA War Concert: Transcriptions by Jascha Heifetz. Works by Ponce, Kreisler, Gershwin, Foster, Debussy and Castelnuovo-Tedesco
The Strad Issue: April 2015Description: A re-creation of Heifetz’s concerts to provide entertainment at the front lineMusicians: Lucio Degani (violin) Andrea Rucli (piano)Composer: Ponce, Kreisler, Gershwin, Foster, Debussy and Castelnuovo-TedescoEntertaining troops at the various points of conflict during the Second World War was the contribution made by ...
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ArticleCellist Mstislav Rostropovich performs Popper's Dance of the Elves
Legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich sets his fingers flying in Popper's fiendishly fast Dance of the Elves. Watch Rostropovich give a masterclass on Dvorák's Cello Concerto. 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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ArticlePut your ears to the test: can you pick the Stradivarius violin?
Can you pick the Stradivarius in our audio clip of six violins? Our first Strad Sunday on 12 April 2015 featured an informal blind test of six violins on the Barbican concert stage, each played by London Symphony Orchestra leader Roman Simovic. In random order, these were: ...
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NewsThe Strad May 2015 issue is out now
Our 125th birthday issue includes features on how recording changed string playing and the Amati 'King' cello
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ReviewShostakovich: Preludes op.34 (selection). Rachmaninoff: Eleven Romances (all transc. Urasin)
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: May 2015Description: Eloquent, expressively performed transcriptions of piano preludes and songsMusicians: Boris Andrianov (cello) Rem Urasin (piano)Composer: Shostakovich, RachmaninoffEnterprising, imaginative and brilliantly executed, this CD is almost faultless, even if the recorded sound is perhaps a bit too resonant for my taste. ...
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ArticleNova Philharmonic performs Smetana's Dance of the Comedians † with comic results
Real gaffe or carefully staged joke? It's not immediately apparent † though perhaps the clue's in the title † in this performance of Smetana's Dance of the Comedians by the Nova Philharmonic in Slovenia. The incident occurs around the 3:40 mark.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital ...
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Article12-year-old violinist Daniel Lozakovitj performs Saint-Saëns's Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Swedish violinist Daniel Lozakovitj, who at the age of 13 has signed to British agency Enticott Music Management, gave an impressively mature and polished performance Saint-Saëns's Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso at the age of 12 with the Talich Philharmonia Prague Orchestra on New Year's Day 2014.The young artist, ...
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NewsViolinist Bin Huang appointed associate professor of violin at Eastman School of Music
The Chinese-born musician herself studied at the institution in Rochester, New York
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ReviewJongen: Violin Concerto in B minor op.17; Adagio symphonique in B major op.20; Fantasia in E major op.12. Lazzari: Rapsodie in E minor
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: May 2015Description: Graffin makes the best possible case for some long-neglected scoresMusicians: Philippe Graffin (violin) Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra/Martyn BrabbinsComposer: Jongen, LazzariHyperion’s Romantic Violin Concerto series reaches volume 18 with a heartwarming programme of unjustly neglected music, played by Philippe Graffin with ...
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NewsEntries for Menuhin Competition London 2016 open today
Next year’s contest will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the great violin prodigy
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NewsSan Francisco cello theft suspects caught on video
A man and a woman stole a cello worth $8,500 from a parked car on 11 April 2015
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ReviewMendelssohn: Piano Trios: no.1 in D minor op.49; no.2 in C minor op.66
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: May 2015Description: Power and symphonic sweep in Mendelssohn’s two triosMusicians: Aquinas Piano TrioComposer: MendelssohnCaptured in opulent sound of unusual depth that gently cushions the music’s semiquaver brilliance, the emotional kinship between Mendelssohn and the Schumann–Brahms tradition has rarely been so powerfully conveyed. ...
