All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 236
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BlogsMaking a bow - from start to finish
French bow maker Roch Petitdemange is filmed by Baptiste Buob while making a violin bow at the Museum of Violin and Bow Making in Mirecourt.Watch Baptiste Buob's film of violin maker Dominique Nicosia making an instrument in Mirecourt - a revealing half-hour insight into the complicated and precise ...
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News2015 ECHO Klassik awards for violinists David Garrett, Isabelle Faust and Nemanja Radulović
The violinists are among 58 winners honoured by the German record industry
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ArticleRoby Lakatos performs Brahms's Hungarian Dance no.5
Gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos puts his unique stamp on Brahms's Fifth Hungarian Dance.Lakatos gives a guide to gypsy fusion playing in The Strad's September 2015 issue, out now - download through The Strad App
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ArticleViolinist Nemanja Radulović performs Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy
Nemanja Radulović, who has been named Violin Newcomer of the Year at the 2015 ECHO Klassik awards, performs Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra at Thétre Antique d'Orange in France. The 30-year-old Serbian signed an international contract with DG at the beginning of 2014. ...
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Focus'Violin making has much further yet to go' - Peter Prier
Paul Prier's tribute to his father, the late Peter Paul Prier, founder of the Violin Making School of America
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ReviewBritish Works for Cello and Piano Vol.4. Bennett: Cello Sonata. Hoddinott: Cello Sonata no.2. Leighton: Partita. Lutyens: Constants
The Strad Issue: September 2015Description: Sterling advocacy for four sonatas of the past centuryMusicians: Paul Watkins (cello) Huw Watkins (piano)Composer: Bennett, Hoddinott, Leighton, LutyensThis brilliantly recorded disc showcases some works from the grittier side of British music from the second half of the 20th century. Each of ...
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ArticleViolinist Nicola Benedetti gives Ysaÿe masterclass
Benedetti gives a masterclass on Ysaÿe's Sonata no.5 at the Royal College of Music in London in February 2014
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NewsDmitry Smirnov wins 2015 Tibor Varga Violin Competition Sion Valais
The 21-year-old Russian also received the audience prize at the Swiss event
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NewsViolinist Viktoria Mullova releases album on same day as her bassist son
Misha Mullov-Abbado is the son of Mullova and conductor Claudio Abbado
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NewsSaint Paul Chamber Orchestra appoints new violist Hyobi Sim
The Curtis Institute and Juilliard School graduate is an active chamber musician
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ArticleViolinist Viktoria Mullova performs Prokofiev's Second Concerto
Viktoria Mullova performs the second movement of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto no.2 conducted by Jeffrey Tate. The violinist is releasing an all-Prokofiev album, including the Second Concerto, this week.
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ReviewBerlioz: Harold en Italie; Intrata di Rob-Roy Macgregor; Rêverie et Caprice
The Strad Issue: September 2015Description: Ehnes switches from violin to viola in Berlioz’s Byronic vistasMusicians: James Ehnes (violin/viola) Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/Andrew DavisComposer: BerliozBerlioz’s mighty ‘symphony with solo viola’ Harold in Italy is preceded on this carefully planned disc by the composer’s only work for violin, Rêverie et ...
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ArticleGary Hoffman gives Chopin Cello Sonata masterclass
It's possible play with a variety of ups and downs in the line, and to connect your musical ideas' Gary Hoffman gives a masterclass on Chopin's Cello Sonata at the Curtis Institute of Music. Read 6 practice and interpretation tips by cellist Gary Hoffman.
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ReviewKing of Instruments; Instrument of Kings. Darke: Violin Sonata no.1 in E minor. Pantcheff: Sonata for Violin and Organ. Sumsion: Violin Sonata in E minor
The Strad Issue: September 2015Description: Twenties sonatas by a pair of church-music composersMusicians: Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin) †¨Duncan Honeybourne (piano/organ)Composer: Darke, Pantcheff, SumsionHerbert Sumsion and Harold Darke are probably best known for their liturgical music. Their violin sonatas are early works, both for the composers and for the ...
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Michel Angelo Bergonzi, Cremona, 1756
This illustration of a Michel Angelo Bergonzi violin was published in The Strad, October 1960. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:Michel Angelo Bergonzi, the son of Carlo Bergonzi, was born in 1722 and died about 1770. He was the pupil of his celebrated father with ...
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ArticleViolinist Gil Shaham gives Mozart masterclass
Can you play that with twice as much bow? OK, now twice as much again!' Violinist Gil Shaham gives a masterclass on Mozart's Violin Concerto no.5 at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts. (Bear with the recording - at the half-way point, the camera angle and sound ...
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NewsViolinist, aged 10, expelled from school for carrying knife for ‘trimming bow hairs’
The student’s parents have requested that a judge overturn the expulsion to prevent ‘defamatory stigma’
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NewsDouble bassist arrested on suspicion of murder following death of concert pianist, according to reports
Bassist John Martin is accused of murdering his partner, Russian-born pianist Natalia Strelchenko in Manchester
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NewsCellist Yo-Yo Ma awarded Antonín Dvorák Prize
The virtuoso is recognised for his lifelong contribution to promoting and popularising Czech classical music
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman on musical prodigies
I was not a prodigy - I was age-appropriate for somebody with talent. If you close your eyes, a true prodigy sounds like they could be 25 years old - that was not me! But for a teacher, a true prodigy can be a worry...' Legendary violinist ...
