All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 301
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ArticleQuintet dream team: Joshua Bell, Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky, Henning Kraggerud, Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich (piano), Mischa Maisky (cello), Joshua Bell (violin), Henning Kraggerud (violin) and Yuri Bashmet (viola) come together in a dream lineup to perform Shostakovich's Piano Quintet, op.57 at the 2008 Verbier Festival. Read: ‘I often have to battle negative thoughts on stage,’ says violinist Joshua Bell ...
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NewsDutch violinist Simone Lamsma leaves IMG for Solea Management
The artist joins violinist Daniel Hope, cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and violist Lise Berthaud at the company
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Blogs'Taking part in competitions improved my playing tremendously,' says violinist Ray Chen
The former winner of the Menuhin and Queen Elisabeth contests advises young musicians to stop thinking about prizes and instead to use competitions as vehicles for self-improvement
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NewsViolinist Ray Chen signs new recording deal with Decca Classics
The violinist, who is a former winner of the Menuhin and Queen Elisabeth competitions, will make his first recording for the label later this year
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GalleryElbphilharmonie concert venue opens in Hamburg
Last night marked the official opening of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. Guests, including German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, attended a concert in the Grand Hall performed by the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and choir of the Bayerischer Rundfunk under conductor Thomas Hengelbrock.Designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron and located ...
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ArticleKreisler: String Quartet in A minor. Schulhoff: Five Pieces for string quartet. Zemlinsky: String Quartet in E minor
The Strad Issue: January 2017Description: String quartets from the dying days of the Habsburg EmpireMusicians: Artis Quartet ViennaComposer: Kreisler, Schulhoff, ZemlinskyCatalogue number: NIMBUS NI 5942 This resourceful programme is a pendant to the Artis Quartet’s exploration of the neglected corners of Viennese quartet writing and to ...
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ArticleLocatelli: L’arte del violino op.3: Violin Concertos no.1 in D major, no.2 in C minor, no.4 in E major
The Strad Issue: January 2017Description: Persuasive readings of three of Locatelli's violin concertosMusicians: Lisa Jacobs (violin) The String SoloistsComposer: LocatelliCatalogue number: COBRA 0054 Dutch violinist Lisa Jacobs performs three of Locatelli’s twelve 1733 concertos L’arte del violino op.3 with bold characterisation, and meets their formidable technical challenges ...
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ArticleMacMillan: Violin Concerto; Symphony no. 4
The Strad Issue: January 2017Description: Magnificent playing from Repin in James MacMillan's 2010 concertoMusicians: Vadim Repin (violin) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Donald RunniclesComposer: MacMillanCatalogue number: ONYX 4157 With its mysterious German chanting, Shostakovich-like sarcasm and nods to seemingly everyone from Bernstein to Berio, James MacMillan’s 2010 Violin Concerto ...
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NewsMusician network Anipo aims to prevent instrument theft with electronic chip
The French organisation is encouraging musicians around the world to fit electronic chips to their instruments and bows and register them with the network
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a 1725 cello by Peter Guarneri of Venice
This illustration of a 1725 cello by Peter Guarneri of Venice was published in The Strad, April 1985. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:London's springtime sales once again afford a useful opportunity to study works from schools not often accessible to most of ...
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ArticleJanine Jansen performs Brahms Violin Concerto at 2016 Nobel Prize Concert
Janine Jansen performed Brahms's Violin Concerto with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gianandrea Noseda at the 2016 Nobel Prize Concert in Stockholm Concert Hall on 8 December 2016. The star violinist replaced tenor Jonas Kaufmann who cancelled his appearance at the event due to a ...
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FocusShould string teachers embrace the latest fashions and gadgets?
As consumers hunger for the latest fads, should string teachers embrace ‘the new’ as well? For Philippa Bunting, today’s innovations are inseparable from the old reliables
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NewsFire destroys 4,000 violins in Romanian musical instrument factory
The blaze, which caused damage worth RON 1m (€223,000), engulfed the violin storage section of the facility
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Article15-year-old violist Tabea Zimmermann performs at Geneva Music Competition in 1982
15-year-old Tabea Zimmermann performs Stamitz's Viola Concerto in D major, op.1 with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande at the final of the 1982 Geneva International Music Competition - which she won. Zimmermann will join violinist Antje Weithaas and cellist Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt as new professors at Germany’s ...
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FocusViolinist Anne-Sophie Mutter on authenticity in musical performance
We may never truly 'know' composers such as Mozart and Beethoven because we live in vastly different times, but that does not diminish the validity of 21st-century interpretations, the violinist tells Andrew Farach-Colton
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NewsViolinist Anne-Sophie Mutter receives World Economic Forum's Crystal Award
The German artist receives her award for 'advocacy in the field of music education', particularly through her Friends of Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation
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ArticleCellist Gary Hoffman gives Tchaikovsky masterclass 2016
In each case your shift is taking place on the new bow rather than the old bow, which means you're not anticipating the new position.' Gary Hoffman gives a cello masterclass at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel on Tchaikovsky's Pezzo capriccioso, op.62 on 9 May 2016. The ...
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NewsMan arrested for throwing mobile phone at orchestral musicians
The Madrid Community Orchestra was performing at National Auditorium of Music in Spain when the incident took place
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Premium ❘ FocusHow to develop an expressive vibrato
Just one beautiful note is all we need as a starter for a gorgeous vibrato, writes Phyllis Young
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ArticleMartinu¯: Sonatine. Milhaud: Sonata. Moszkowski: Suite in G minor
The Strad Issue: January 2017Description: Likeable trios for violins and piano make for a family affairMusicians: Koch TrioComposer: Martinu¯, Milhaud, MoszkowskiCatalogue number: ETCETERA KTC 1543 Three chamber works for the unusual combination of two violins and piano come courtesy of a family trio: father and daughter Philippe ...
