All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 266
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NewsNew England Conservatory receives ‘Joachim-Ma’ Stradivarius violin from Si-Hon Ma estate
The 1714 instrument belonged to violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim from 1849 to 1890
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News2016 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition names three finalists
Led by president Nikolaj Znaider, the contest takes place from 16-22 April in Denmark
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ArticleViolinist Anne Akiko Meyers performs with broken foot
Anne Akiko Meyers suffered a fall on Friday while walking with her children, just a few hours before she was due to give her second of three performances of Mason Bates’s Violin Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington.The violinist, who believed at ...
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ReviewTake Two. Music by Bach, Biber, Cage, Dick, Falla, Giamberti, Gibbons, Holliger, Machaut, Martini, Milhaud, Sánchez-Chiong, Sotelo, Vivier and Zykan
The Strad Issue: April 2016Description: Characteristically questing playing from Kopatchinskaja and friendsMusicians: Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin/Baroque violin/voice) Reto Bieri (clarinet/ocarina/violin) Laurence Dreyfus (treble viol) Jorge Sánchez-Chiong (electronics/turntables) Anthony Romaniuk (harpsichord/toy piano) Matthias Würsch (darbuka) Pablo Márquez (guitar) Ernesto Estrella (voice)Composer: Bach, Biber, Cage, Dick, Falla, Giamberti, Gibbons, Holliger, ...
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ArticleParody video: how to be a classical musician
Step 4: Practise....for the rest of your life''Step 8: Avoid acquiring a pretentious European accent'CBC Music presents a tongue-in-cheek video guide on how to be a classical musician, produced by IFHT.Watch: Opera Five spoofs Air Canada’s musical instrument policy
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ArticleViolinist Frank Peter Zimmermann performs Bach's Chaconne
Frank Peter Zimmermann talks in The Strad's April 2016 issue about revisiting the Mozart Violin Concertos on disc, 20 years after his breakthrough recording - download on desktop computer or buy in print Read The Strad’s 7 ways to play perfect chords and see how other great violinists tackled the ...
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NewsViolinist Joshua Bell joins US cultural mission to Cuba
The delegation includes writers, artists and musicians and aims to ‘advance deeper cooperation around the common bonds of our heritages’
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NewsUS violin dealer Dan Schab dies in house fire
The 58-year-old cellist was the owner of Schab Violins
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ArticleYehudi Menuhin performs Bach at the age of 69
Yehudi Menuhin performs the Prelude from Bach's Solo Violin Partita no.3 in 1985 at the age of 69
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FocusFrom the Archive: a cello by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, 1724, 'Hausmann'
This illustration of a cello by Antonio Stradivari was published in The Strad, July 1977. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:The early history of the 'Hausmann' Stradivari is uncertain, but Hill believes that it came from Spain. It is thought that it then found its ...
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NewsThe Strad May 2016 issue is out now
Our Yehudi Menuhin centenary edition celebrates the violinist and visionary in interviews and pictures
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News2016 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition names joint first prize winners
Led by president Nikolaj Znaider, the contest took place from 16-22 April in Denmark
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ReviewBartók: 44 Duos for two violins
The Strad Issue: May 2016Description: French sisters round the edges off Bartók’s folksy violin duosMusicians: Sarah Nemtanu, Deborah Nemtanu (violins)Composer: Béla BartókBéla Bartók wrote his 44 violin duos primarily with education in mind, their technical and musical demands growing in complexity from the simple, foursquare openers to ...
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Article9-year-old Leia Zhu performs Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
9-year-old Leia Zhu performs the second and third movements of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Surgut Philharmonic conducted by Denis Kirpanev in April 2016.A student of Itzhak Rashkovsky, the young violinist won the International Russian Rotary Music Competition in Moscow in September 2015 – watch her performing Mendelssohn ...
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ArticleThe Strad Masterclass: Danjulo Ishizaka on the Grieg Cello Sonata
In the video above cellist Mischa Maisky and pianist Martha Argerich perform the first movement - Allegro agitato - of Grieg's Cello Sonata, op.36. Cellist Danjulo Ishizaka continues The Strad’s new marked-up sheet music series in association with Henle Verlag with the work's first movement – giving bowings, fingerings and ...
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ArticleFrançois Rabbath
François Rabbath was born in Aleppo, Syria into a musical family. Having began the double bass at the age of 13, Rabbath studied at the Paris Conservatoire and began his career accompanying Jacque Brel, Charles Aznavour, Michel Legrand among others. In 1963 he made his first solo ...
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ArticleNiccolò Paganini
Niccolò Paganini was born in Genoa, Italy, Oct 27, 1782 and is considered by many to be one of the greatest violinists of all time. The young musician first received lessons from his father and later from the most reputable teachers in Genoa. In 1801 Paganini travelled ...
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NewsFresh from signing to Warner Classics, violinist Kyung Wha Chung to open Verbier Festival
The 68-year-old Korean returned to performing in 2010 following a finger injury
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ArticleJames Ehnes performs on the Guarneri 'del Gesù' 'Lord Wilton' violin
James Ehnes performs Tchaikovsky's Melody, op.42 no.3 on the Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù' 'Lord Wilton' violin, 1742. The instrument was one of several great Cremonese violins associated with Yehudi Menuhin, who acquired it in 1978 from Jacques Francais in New York. On his death in 1999 it ...
