All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 250
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ArticleChristel Lee performs Bartók at the 2015 Sibelius Competition
Christel Lee performs the first movement of Bartók's Second Violin Concerto in the final of the 2015 International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition. The US violinist was named the competition winner and received €25,000.Watch: Christel Lee performs Sibelius’s Violin Concerto in 2014
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NewsMadeline Adkins appointed Utah Symphony concertmaster
The violinist begins her tenue in September 2016
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ReviewViola Dolorosa. Britten: Elegy; Lachrymae. Seabourne: PietÁ
The Strad Issue: December 2015Description: A finely wrought new addition to the viola and piano repertoireMusicians: Georg Hamann (viola) Akari Komiya (piano)Composer: Britten, SeabourneThe three compositions united under this recital’s somewhat masochistic title variously explore the mood of ‘deep sadness’ that Berlioz singled out as the viola’s ...
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ArticleThe Strad Technique: Michael Frischenschlager's Violin Scale System
Michael Frischenschlager, professor emeritus at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, explains his two-octave violin scale and arpeggio system for improving tone and intonation in The Strad's December 2015 issueStudents work in pairs, playing in harmony, and perform each exercise ppp and fff, in major and ...
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ArticleViolinist Robert Gupta on music as medicine
Music is medicine. Music changes us. As musicians we take something that exists within all of us at our very fundamental core - our emotions - and through our artistic lens, we are able to shape those emotions into reality'LA Philharmonic violinist Robert Gupta gives a TED Talk ...
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ReviewDuke: Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata; Etude for violin and bassoon; Hommage to Offenbach; Capriccio méxicano
The Strad Issue: December 2015Description: Broadway tunesmith turns to ‘serious’ music – with mixed resultsMusicians: Elmira Darvarova (violin) Kim Laskowski (bassoon) ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna/Scott Dunn (conductor/piano)Composer: DukeAll goes well until the final movement of Vernon Duke’s 1941 Violin Concerto, where he defaults to polystylistic ‘tema ...
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Michael Angelo Bergonzi, Cremona, 1757
This illustration of a violin by Michael Angelo Bergonzi was published in The Strad, January 1970. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:Five Bergonzis are known to have worked as violin makers in Cremona. Carlo, the founder of the family was active from the closing years ...
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NewsViolinist charged £200 for transporting her instrument in airline cabin
Ryanair is standing by its policy of charging for an extra seat for musical instruments exceeding its hand baggage dimensions
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NewsStefan Arzberger resigns as Leipzig Quartet violinist following arrest
The musician, who maintains his innocence, was charged by New York police with strangulation and burglary earlier this year
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FocusFormer Berlin Phil concertmaster Thomas Brandis on working with Herbert von Karajan
'I had to learn to play a little late or I would have been playing solo,' says the violinist, who served as Berlin Philharmonic concertmaster from 1962 to 1983
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ArticleRepairing a violin crack
Jonathan Cooper of Acoustic Artisans in Portland repairs a violin owned by Mark O'Connor.Minutes before the folk fiddler was due to give a concert in South Dakota, his violin fell from a table, leaving a crack along the entire top of the body and another on its base.Watch: ...
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NewsViolinist Itzhak Perlman awarded 2016 Genesis Prize, worth $1m
The musician is recognised for his professional accomplishments and as an advocate for people with disabilities
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ReviewInspiration. Dvorák: Serenade for Strings. Herbert: Yesterthoughts; Punchinello; Ghazel SUK Serenade for Strings; Love Song (arr. Schmidt)
The Strad Issue: December 2015Description: A new German ensemble is persuasive in mainly Czech musicMusicians: Metamorphosen Berlin/Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt (cello/director)Composer: Dvorák, HerbertJosef Suk’s Serenade for Strings is still cast in the role of Cinderella to the more popular works of that title by Tchaikovsky and Dvorák, which ...
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ArticleJohn Williams conducts Star Wars with the Boston Pops
Film composer John Williams conducts his Star Wars theme with the Boston Pops orchestra.Watch: Violinist Itzhak Perlman on working with John Williams on Schindler's ListWatch: Violinist Itzhak Perlman performs Schindler's List conducted by John Williams
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NewsJosé Maria Blumenschein appointed Vienna Philharmonic concertmaster
Currently concertmaster of WDR Sinfonieorchester in Cologne, the young violinist takes up his new role in September 2016
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ArticleLeonidas Kavakos performs Sibelius Violin Concerto
Leonidas Kavakos performs the third movement of Sibelius's Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in February 2015. Kavakos talks about his ever-deepening relationship with the Sibelius Concerto in The Strad's January 2016 issue - out Friday. Read: Leonidas Kavakos on modern violin ...
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ReviewBiber: Rosary Sonatas
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2016Description: Podger and friends are the ideal guides to Biber’s mysterious sonatasMusicians: Rachel Podger (violin) David Miller (theorbo/archlute) Jonathan Manson (cello/viola da gamba) Marcin ŠšwiÄ…tkiewicz (harpsichord/organ)Composer: BiberThe weird and the wonderful combine to compelling effect in Biber’s Rosary Sonatas. And Rachel ...
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NewsProposal for a new Centre for Music in London moves forward
The Centre, originally suggested by incoming London Symphony Orchestra music director Sir Simon Rattle, would have 'a transformative effect on public engagement with music'
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ArticleViolinist Midori on coping with stage fright
Violinist Midori speaks about dealing with performance nerves for Classical Chops.
