All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 260
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NewsApplications now open for Tarisio Trust Young Artist Grants 2016
The online instrument and bow auction house is offering five awards of $5,000 for innovative string-based projects
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NewsLaSalle Quartet violist Peter Kamnitzer has died aged 93
The musician, who performed with the ensemble for almost 40 years, was a German Jewish refugee of the Second World War
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ReviewBate: Cello Concerto. Bax: Cello Concerto
The Strad Issue: March 2016Description: Fine advocacy from an adventurous cellist of two concerto raritiesMusicians: Lionel Handy (cello) Royal Scottish National Orchestra/MartinuYatesComposer: Bate; BaxThis recording represents a milestone for two neglected British cello concertos of the last century: the recording premiere of Stanley Bate’s Concerto and only ...
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ArticleThe Strad Masterclass: violinist James Ehnes on Beethoven's Spring Sonata
Sometimes people seem to think it's more important that their interpretations be defensible than beautiful, and that's absurd' James Ehnes speaks about interpreting Beethoven to The Strad, and performs the composer's Romance no.1 with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop (above). The violinist continues The Strad’s new ...
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ArticleTabea Zimmermann performs Bartók's Viola Concerto
Tabea Zimmermann performs Bartók's Viola Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Semyon Bychkov in June 2010. Read: Violist Tabea Zimmermann on technique, teaching and competitions
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FocusViolist Tabea Zimmermann on technique, teaching and competitions
The German violist talks to Carlos María Solare about her teaching philosophies and the role of competitions in the development of young musicians
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ReviewScrapyard Exotica. Bates: Bagatelles. Fairouz: The Named Angels. Ueno: Peradam
The Strad Issue: March 2016Description: Samples, singing and other surprises in a collection of new worksMusicians: Del Sol QuartetComposer: Bates; Fairouz; UenoThis substantial recording project presents three works composed for the San Francisco-based Del Sol Quartet, a group dedicated to commissioning and performing new music. Each piece ...
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ArticleHow effective is a modern violin and Baroque bow in period performance?
Dr Tomas Cotik, violin soloist, Amernet String Quartet member and professor at the University of Miami, performs the Largo from Bach's Violin Sonata no.3 on his modern violin and a Baroque bow. He describes his decision to use this combination for the recording below:'I usually play a modern ...
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FocusCellist Mischa Maisky on studying with Piatigorsky and Rostropovich
Both great musicians taught Maisky that the cello is merely a means to an end
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ArticleCellist Mischa Maisky performs Rachmaninoff's Vocalise
Cellist Mischa Maisky performs Rachmaninoff's Vocalise with his daughter Lily Maisky at the Moscow Conservatory in 2008. Read: Cellist Mischa Maisky on studying with Piatigorsky and Rostropovich
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NewsViolinist Marc Bouchkov to receive 2016 Rheingau Music Festival award
The 24-year-old violinist will receive €15,000 in prize money
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NewsUK cellist Gywneth George dies aged 95
The Welsh musician was known for her collaborations with pianist Alberto Portugheis
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FocusHow t'ai chi can help cellists
Ross Harbaugh talks through some exercises designed to develop balance and technique
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ArticleViolinist Hilary Hahn on dealing with performance nerves
Violinist Hilary Hahn talks about harnessing performance nerves in an interview conducted by YouTube Symphony member Ben Chan.
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ReviewBeethoven: Romance in F major op.50. Berg: Violin Concerto. R. Fuchs: Nine Fantasy Pieces. Joachim: Hebrew Melodies
The Strad Issue: March 2016Description: Zukerman tapings from the 1990s finally see the light of dayMusicians: Pinchas Zukerman (violin/viola) Marc Neikrug (piano) London Philharmonic Orchestra/Zubin MehtaComposer: Beethoven; Berg; R. Fuchs; JoachimThe sequence of nine pieces from Robert Fuchs’s three books of Fantasiestücke is the best violin playing ...
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ReviewBrahms: Violin Concerto in D major op.77; String Quintet no.2 in G major op.111
The Strad Issue: March 2016Description: Weithaas leads from the front in the Brahms ConcertoMusicians: Antje Weithaas (violin/director) Camerata BernComposer: BrahmsCatalogue Number: AVI-MUSIC 8553328To direct the Brahms Concerto from the violin is challenging enough; to know that the concert is going out on a CD must be daunting ...
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NewsNotes for Schumann's Piano Trio no.1 bought for six-figure sum
Composer’s sketches previously owned by private US collection now available to public
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1692
This illustration of a violin by Antonio Stradivari was published in The Strad, May 1976
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NewsConductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt dies aged 86
Friends and colleagues honour early-music pioneer and founder of Concentus Musicus Wien
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NewsDirector announces cancellation of Rostropovich festival in Baku
Festival dedicated to the great cellist hit by financial problems
