All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 269
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NewsJi Won Song wins Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition
Each of the three finalists performed Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto on 12 May in Augsburg, Germany
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NewsSecond International Piatigorsky Cello Festival launches in Los Angeles
The festival runs from 13 to 22 May 2016
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NewsDaniel Lozakovitj, 15, wins 2016 Vladimir Spivakov International Violin Competition
The Swedish player received an Italian violin as his prize
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GalleryFrom the Archive: A violin by Giuseppe Gagliano of Naples, 1785
This illustration of a violin by Giuseppe Gagliano was published in The Strad, March 1978. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:The handsome Gagliano illustrated here is by Giuseppe, the second son of Nicolo whose models he followed. For some years Giuseppe shared a workshop with ...
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NewsCellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason wins BBC Young Musician 2016
The 17-year-old from Nottingham performed Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto no.1 in the final
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ReviewSpectrum. Janácek: Violin Sonata. Kreisler: Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta. Schubert: Violin Sonata in A major D574 ‘Grand Duo’. Stravinsky: Divertimento
The Strad Issue: May 2016Description: Beilman gets under the music’s skin in a dazzling recitalMusicians: Benjamin Beilman (violin) Yekwon Sunwoo (piano)Composer: Janácek; Kreisler; Schubert; StravinskyWorking alongside his regular accompanist Yekwon Sunwoo, Benjamin Beilman immediately draws us into the elusive sound world of Schubert’s D574 Sonata via his ...
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NewsKent Nagano conducts 1,000 musicians in Berlin shopping mall
More than 900 amateur musicians descended on the ‘Mall of Berlin’ shopping centre in the German capital’s Leipziger Platz on Monday 16 May, where they were joined by 50 members of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for a surprise concert. Conducted by Kent Nagano, the musical flashmob performed works ...
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ArticleMasterclass with David Finckel: Brahms Piano Quartet no.1 in G minor
There has to be enough definition to these four-note phrases for the audience to make sense of the music' Cellist David Finckel leads the Zelda Quartet in a masterclass at The Juilliard School's Paul Hall. The quartet play the Allegro non troppo from Johannes Brahms' Piano Quartet ...
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ReviewMozart: Violin Concertos: no.2 in D major K211, no.5 in A major K219 ‘Turkish’; Sinfonia concertante in E flat major K3641
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: May 2016 Description: Zimmermann continues his new cycle of Mozart’s violin concertos Musicians: Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) Antoine Tamestit (viola)1 Bavarian Radio Symphony Chamber Orchestra/Radoslaw Szulc Composer: Mozart This is ...
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NewsResults announced for 2016 China international violin and bow making competition
Makers from the home country dominate results, with Polish, Hungarian and Italian entrants also represented
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NewsViolinist Itzhak Perlman cancels North Carolina concert in protest move
The musician has issued a statement calling for the repeal of 'discriminatory law'
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NewsSouth Korean luthier wins Wieniawski International Violin Making Competition
Poland, France, Spain and Italy were also represented in the final
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Premium ❘ FeatureHis master's pupil: how Erick Friedman struggled in the shadow of Jascha Heifetz
Erick Friedman, Heifetz's first student and a virtuoso in his own right, was frustrated by continual comparisons to his teacher. Dennis Rooney looks back at his life
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ReviewSaint-Saëns: Cello Concertos: no.1 in A minor op.33, no.2 in D minor op.119; Carnival of the Animals; Africa op.89; Wedding Cake op.76
The Strad Issue: May 2016Description: Saint-Saëns’s cello concertos are shown to be a game of two halvesMusicians: Truls Mørk (cello) Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier (pianos) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Neeme JärviComposer: Saint-SaënsBerlioz once accused Saint-Saëns of lacking inexperience. I think it’s fairer to say that he was patchy in ...
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NewsViolinists and cellists to receive 2016 Tarisio Trust grants
The scheme aims to encourage innovative projects based around string playing
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FocusSheet music: Abram Yampolsky's fiendishly difficult E major study
Could Yampolsky's variation on Kreutzer's Etude-Caprice be the best work ever for practising arpeggios? Rok Klopčič thinks so
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ArticleJennifer Stumm viola masterclass: Bartók Concerto
To me this piece is about contrasts between light and dark, speaking and singing, and tension and relaxation'Jennifer Stumm, Chair of Viola Studies at the Royal College of Music, presents a masterclass on the Bartók Viola Concerto at the 2014 SÁo Paulo Viola Day.Watch: Tabea Zimmermann performs Bartók's ...
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ArticleRay Chen's violin swapping Bach Double Concerto encore
Ray Chen gives an entertaining rendition of Bach's Double Violin Concerto alongside close friends and conductors Diego Matheuz and Christian Vasquez. Chen was performing a concert as part of the El Sistema programme in Venezuela. Watch: Ray Chen comedy videos compilation Watch: The Strad Masterclass: Ray Chen ...
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ReviewThe Soul of Lady Harmsworth: Violin solos by Ernst, Paganini, Sarasate, Tchaikovsky and Wieniawski
The Strad Issue: May 2016Description: Encore works finely performed on a beautiful instrumentMusicians: Kristóf Baráti (violin) Gábor Farkas (piano)Composer: Ernst; Paganini; Sarasate; Tchaikovsky; WieniawskiKristóf Baráti performs this mixed bag of violin encores with striking technical facility, innate musicality and fearless panache. His accounts of Sarasate’s Romanza andaluza ...
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NewsCalidore Quartet wins $100,000 prize at Michigan competition
The New York-based group took home 'the largest prize for chamber music in the world'
