All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 225
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a Matteo Gofriller cello, Venice 1700
This illustration of a Matteo Gofriller cello was published in The Strad, July 1972. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: During the 18th century the number of cellos made in Italy was very small in comparison with the output of violins. Matteo ...
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NewsLindsay Quartet founding violinist Peter Cropper has died aged 69
The British musician was also founder and artistic director of Sheffield’s Music in the Round
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ArticleJi Young Lim performs Brahms's Violin Concerto
Ji Young Lim performs the first movement of Brahms's Violin Concerto in the finals of the 2014 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in which she came third.The violinist has just been named the winner of the 2015 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium, after performing the same work in ...
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NewsRape trial of former head of strings Malcolm Layfield begins in Manchester
The violinist, who denies the charge, was formerly head of strings at the Royal Northern College of Music and taught at Chetham's
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ArticleCuarteto Quiroga performs Brahms on decorated Stradivarius instruments
The musicians of the Quiroga Quartet perform the second movement of Brahms's Second String Quartet on a unique set of decorated Stradivarius instruments belonging to the Madrid Royal Palace.The musicians were named the Palace's first artists in residence in 2013, allowing them access to the Strads – the ...
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Article1,000 cellists perform in Japan
On 24 May 2015, 1,000 cellists came together in Sendai, Japan to support the victims of the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. This was the fifth Japanese mass cello event since 1998, when the first such concert took place in aid of the victims of the Hanshin-Awaji earthquake.See ...
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NewsChineke! Foundation aims to form Europe’s first professional all-black orchestra
The organisation will also launch a junior orchestra and lobby government to improve music education in schools
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ReviewHétu: Complete Chamber Music for Strings
The Strad Issue: June 2015Description: Chamber works by a French-trained Canadian composerMusicians: New Orford Quartet, Steven Dann (viola) Colin Carr (cello) Timothy Hutchins (flute)Composer: HétuThis vividly recorded CD gathers the complete chamber music for strings – spanning almost half a century – of Canadian composer Jacques Hétu ...
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NewsRenowned American violin maker Luiz Bellini dies aged 79
Brazilian-born US luthier Luiz Bellini died on 4 June at the age of 79. Musicians such as Yehudi Menuhin, Gidon Kremer, David Nadien, Glenn Dicterow and Berl Senofsky all owned and played Bellini instruments during their careers.Born on 25 November 1935 in SÁo Paulo, Bellini originally trained as ...
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ArticleCarpenter Trio perform on Stradivarius instruments
The Carpenter Trio - violist David Aaron Carpenter and violinists Sean Avram Carpenter and Lauren Sarah Carpenter - perform Astor Piazzolla's Oblivion on a 1715 Stradivarius viola, the 1727 'Vesuvio' Stradivarius violin and the 1714 'Joachim-Ma' Stradivarius violin. All three instruments are on display in the Museo del ...
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FeaturePractical tips for launching a chamber ensemble
If you want to establish a chamber group, playing well is only the beginning. Tully Potter offers some practical advice to help groups make an impression and stay ahead
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FeatureAmerican cellist Jeffrey Solow on studying with Gregor Piatigorsky
Cellist Jeffrey Solow spent five remarkable years in the elite cello class of Gregor Piatigorsky at the University of Southern California. Here he remembers lessons with the great master
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ReviewLiszt: Duo Sonata on Polish Themes; Epithalamium; The Three Gypsies; Two Elegies; Valse-Impromptu (arr. Hubay); Grand duo concertant on Lafont’s ‘Le marin’
The Strad Issue: June 2015Description: Polish players explore Liszt’s little-known chamber musicMusicians: Voytek Proniewicz (violin) Wojciech Waleczek (piano)Composer: LisztPolish duo Proniewicz and Waleczek have produced a nicely shaped selection of Liszt’s still relatively unexplored chamber music. The two chunkiest items frame the programme. The first is a ...
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ArticleDouble bassist Gary Karr performs 'Failing'
Double bassist Gary Karr gives an admirable performance of Johnson's 'Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass'. The work requires Karr to talk to his audience from a script, while performing increasingly complicated material - with the idea that at some point the musician will 'fail' ...
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NewsBeijing Customs commits to stamping out the importation of illegal ivory
The Chinese government also plans to cease the processing and domestic sale of ivory
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ReviewVivaldi: I Concerti dell’addio: Violin Concertos in C major RV189; in †¨E minor RV273; in F major RV286; in B flat major RV367; in B flat major RV371; in B minor RV390
The Strad Issue: June 2015Description: Late concertos from Vivaldi’s Viennese yearsMusicians: Fabio Biondi (violin/director) Europa GalanteComposer: VivaldiVivaldi composed his ‘Farewell’ Concertos in his twilight years while searching desperately for creative opportunities in Vienna. Drawn from a collection currently preserved in Brno, the works on this disc confirm ...
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NewsAndrea Burger wins 2015 Tokyo International Viola Competition
The violist receives a cash prize and concert opportunities
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman's first encounter with Jascha Heifetz
Your Symphonie Espagnole is very nice, but I would like to hear some scales...' Violinist Itzhak Perlman remembers his first meeting with the great Jascha Heifetz when he played to him as a 14-year-old student at the Juilliard School in New York. Watch Jascha Heifetz put students ...
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NewsFormer Chetham’s violin teacher Malcolm Layfield cleared of rape
The violinist, who had denied the charge, was also head of strings at the Royal Northern College of Music
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ReviewWalton: Viola Concerto. Schnittke: Passacaglia for Orchestra
Description: Touch-and-go in Bashmet’s Moscow premiere of Walton’s Viola ConcertoMusicians: Yuri Bashmet (viola) Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow State Philharmonic Society/Dmitri KitayenkoComposer: Walton, SchnittkeWilliam Walton’s Viola Concerto is one of those pieces that keeps getting slower over the years, but even so I was amazed at seeing ...
