All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 295
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News'Play' by composer Andrew Norman wins $100,000 Grawemeyer Award
The 45-minute orchestral work was composed for the Boston Modern Orchestra Project in 2013
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NewsMahler manuscript exceeds estimate to sell for record breaking £4.5m
The 232-page handwritten score was valued by the auction house 'in excess of 3.5m'
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ArticleVadim Repin performs Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto
Vadim Repin performs Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under Valery Gergiev in St. Petersburg in 1992. The performance was dedicated to David Oistrakh. Read: 6 pieces of advice for performers by violinist Vadim Repin Watch: Vadim Repin plays seven Stradivarius and Guarneri violins
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NewsBeethoven string quartet manuscript fails to sell at auction after row over authenticity
The handwritten manuscript, auctioned at Sotheby's in London, had been thrown into doubt by Beethoven scholar and Manchester University Professor Barry Cooper
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ArticleBartók: Sonata for Solo Violin, Kurtág: Signs, Games & Messages
The Strad Issue: December 2016Description: Smith turns up the heat in Hungarian masterpiecesMusicians: Simon Smith (violin)Composer: Bartók, KurtágCatalogue number: RESONUS RES 10167 György Kurtág builds grand, over-arching architecture by stringing together compressed fragments – concentrated gestures aimed at provoking concentrated listening. Bartók's Sonata for Solo Violin (1944) ...
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ArticleCould a brain stimulation tool used for sport improve the results of music practice?
Spanish pianist and actor Mario Marzo uses a Halo Sport brain stimulating device to boost the results of his practice with seemingly impressive results.The headphones use 'Neuropriming' to stimulate the brain during athletic training 'to improve strength, skill, explosiveness, and endurance'. Although designed for athletes, Marzo demonstrates that ...
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FocusHow to put on a successful children's Christmas concert
Children’s Christmas concerts demand organisation, preparation and sensitivity, but get them right and your young pupils will be exhilarated by their achievement – as will their parents, says Philippa Bunting
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FocusMasterclass: Augustin Hadelich on Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Part 1
In the first of a two-part article, Hadelich discusses timing, tradition and character in the acrobatic first movement. From the December 2016 issue
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NewsSteven Isserlis appointed Royal Academy of Music visiting cello professor
The British cellist will present regular masterclasses and work with students on ‘side-by-side’ ensemble projects
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Focus'Asking a student to listen is the most difficult task for any teacher,' says violinist Natasha Boyarsky
The veteran Yehudi Menuhin School and Royal College of Music professor, who counts among her former pupils Alina Ibragimova, Nicola Benedetti and Chloë Hanslip, shares five views on string teaching
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ArticleBerlin Philharmonic cellist Ludwig Quandt gives Debussy audition masterclass
You must maintain a good sound to the end of the bow, even when you are playing pp' - Ludwig QuandtBerlin Philharmonic first principal cellist Ludwig Quandt gives an orchestral audition masterclass on Debussy's La Mer. The cello student is Henry Shapard.The masterclass was one in a series ...
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ArticleBerlin Philharmonic violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley gives Mozart audition masterclass
I think you have to play a little more soloistically in an audition than you would in a section' - Noah Bendix-BalgleyBerlin Philharmonic first concertmaster Noah Bendix-Balgley gives an orchestral audition masterclass on the first movement of Mozart's Symphony no.40. The violin student is Ann Yu.The masterclass was ...
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ArticleA Land so Luminous - Causton: Threnody; Rituals of Hunting and Blooding; Non mi comporto male; Sleep; Night Piece, Hesketh: A Land So Luminous; Cautionary Tales; IMMH; Netsuke
The Strad Issue: December 2016Description: Devoted performances of new music by two 40-something composersMusicians: Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin) Mary Bevan (soprano) Aleksander Szram (piano) Continuum Ensemble/Philip HeadlamComposer: Richard Causton, Kenneth HeskethCatalogue number: PRIMA FACIE PFCD 051 British contemporary composers Kenneth Hesketh and Richard Causton make for an illuminating ...
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NewsViolinist Bethan Doci jailed for cancer fraud worth £350,000
The 38-year-old, also known as Bethan Morgan, told friends and colleagues that she needed money for cancer treatment, despite being fit and well
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ArticleFriedman: Piano Quintet in C minor, Rózycki: Piano Quintet in C minor
The Strad Issue: December 2016Description: Piano quintets from the twilight of the Romantic eraMusicians: Szymanowski Quartet, Jonathan Plowright (piano)Composer: Friedman, RózyckiCatalogue number: HYPERION CDA 68124 Written in Paris and Berlin in 1913, Ludomir Rózycki’s Piano Quintet is very much of the late Romantic style. It opens calmly ...
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ArticleViolin Sonatas & Pieces - Grieg: Violin Sonata no.2 in G major, Nielsen: Violin Sonata no.2, Sibelius: Four Pieces op.78, Stenhammar: Violin Sonata in A minor op.19
The Strad Issue: December 2016Description: The Skride sisters present an attractive Nordic recitalMusicians: Baiba Skride (violin) Lauma Skride (piano)Composer: Grieg, Nielsen, Sibelius, StenhammarCatalogue num ber: ORFEO C913 161A This thoughtfully planned recital is not titled ‘Music from Scandinavia’, as it well might have been – and that ...
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a viola by Carl G. Becker and Carl F. Becker, 1952
This illustration of a viola by 'Carl Becker and Son' was published in The Strad, November1984. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:Carl F. Becker is considered by makers worldwide to be a superlative craftsman and part of a family dynasty. His great-grandfather, Herman ...
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NewsViolinist Yebin Yoo wins New Zealand's Gisborne International Music Competition 2016
The 16-year-old performer takes home the top prize of NZ$9,000
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Focus6 ways to control bow pressure
How to use bow pressure to produce a fine, even tone, to vary texture and dynamics and to produce smooth bow changes from The Strad archive
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ArticleFrank Peter Zimmermann performs Brahms Violin Concerto
Frank Peter Zimmermann performs Brahms's Violin Concerto with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under conductor Mariss Jansons in Munich's Gasteig on April 17, 2015. Watch: Violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann performs Paganini’s God Save the King Read: Frank Peter Zimmermann regains access to ‘Lady Inchiquin’ Stradivarius violin
