All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 303
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ArticleRuisi Quartet perform Vuillaume’s ‘Evangelists’ Quartet of instruments
The Ruisi Quartet performs Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume’s celebrated ‘Evangelists’ Quartet of instruments.Constructed from matching wood in 1863 and based on Stradivari models, the instruments have remained together as a group, held in private European collections since about 1970, and sold through Ingles and Hayday to an Asian collector in ...
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NewsElmar Oliveira International Violin Competition names 8 semi-finalists
Currently taking place at the Lynn Conservatory of Music in Florida, the contest offers a grand prize of $30,000, performance opportunities, management and public relations support
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NewsNew York Philharmonic String Quartet to make international debut
The new ensemble comprises principal players from the New York Philharmonic
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FocusPsychoanalysing Mozart
Are the frequent mood swings in Mozart's violin works a symptom of operatic composing, or of his affliction with a rare psychiatric disorder? Rok Klopčič offers some thoughts
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ArticleBrahms: Cello Sonata no.2 in F major; Violin Sonata no.2 in A major op.100 (arr.Wispelwey), Schubert: Violin Sonata in A major D574 (arr.Wispelwey)
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Wispelwey adopts and adapts Brahms and Schubert for the celloMusicians: Pieter Wispelwey (cello) Paolo Giacometti (piano)Composer: Brahms, SchubertCatalogue number: EVIL PENGUIN EPRC 0022 Assigning works written for one instrument to another is certainly one way of eschewing a museum ...
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ArticleFranck: Violin Sonata in A minor, Kurtág: Tre Pezzi op.14e, Previn: Tango Song and Dance, Schumann: Violin Sonata no.1 in A minor op.105
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Two players absorbed in the moment in a mixed violin and piano recitalMusicians: Augustin Hadelich (violin) Joyce Yang (piano)Composer: Franck, Kurtág, Previn, SchumannCatalogue number: AVIE AV 2347 Augustin Hadelich’s shimmering, silvery tone, chamber-scale intimacy of expression and Kremer-like refusal ...
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a tenor viola by Andrea Guarneri, 1664
This illustration of a 1664 viola by Andrea Guarneri was published in The Strad, June 1985. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:This magnificent tenor viola, 482 mm, by Andrea Guarneri of Cremona was sold in the 1940s by the Counts Canal family of ...
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ArticleViolinist James Ehnes performs Flight of the Bumblebee
Violinist James Ehnes and pianist Andrew Armstrong perform Jascha Heifetz's arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee in December 2015 to promote of Ehnes's 40th birthday tour. Watch: David Garrett sets Guinness World Record for Fastest Violin Player with Flight of the Bumblebee Watch: Cellist performs Flight ...
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NewsViolinist Elisa Citterio named Tafelmusik music director
Citterio takes up her new role in July 2017, and will open the Canadian period instrument orchestra's 2017-18 season
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BlogsIntermediary notes are unnecessary for shifting
One the great pedagogical minds of the 20th Century, Yuri Yankelevich (1909-1973) wrote an extremely detailed treatise on shifting that has now been published in English by Oxford University Press. Translator Masha Lankovsky takes a look at one of his conclusions
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NewsLeague of American Orchestras condemns Trump administration US travel ban
The organisation has issued a statement reacting to the Executive Order temporarily banning citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering America
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ArticleStrad Style: not your average violin making documentary
A new documentary charting the struggle by amateur luthier Danny Houck to make a copy of the 1743 'Il Cannone' Guarneri del Gesù has won the Jury Prize for Best Documentary and the Audience Award at the 2017 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.Made by violinist and ...
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Focus'Students should find the original score, not just rely on the Internet' - cellist Christophe Coin
For Christophe Coin, the French cellist, gambist and musical time-traveller, historically informed performance practice involves a combination of forensic-level investigation and leap-of-faith creativity, he tells Helen Wallace
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ArticleThe Cellist of Sarajevo - Wilde: Suite 'Cry, Bosnia-Herzegovina'; String Quartet no.1; Piano Trio; A Prayer for Bosnia
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: A veteran composer's searing response to the plight of the war-torn BalkansMusicians: Red Note EnsembleComposer: WildeCatalogue number: DELPHIAN DCD 34179 (2 CDs) This is music to memorialise, to bear witness and to remind us of our complicity. The pianist ...
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ArticleThe Strad Masterclass: Paul Silverthorne on Brahms Viola Sonata op.120 no.2
Whatever choices you make, remember Brahms's reply to a musician asking for advice: 'Play it how you like, but play it beautifully'' Paul Silverthorne speaks about performing Brahms’s Second Viola Sonata to The Strad, and performs the entire work in the video above. Silverthorne continues The Strad’s marked-up sheet music ...
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NewsElmar Oliveira International Violin Competition names 4 finalists
Currently taking place at Lynn Conservatory of Music in Florida, the contest offers a grand prize of $30,000, performance opportunities and public relations support
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NewsIraq-born Budapest Festival Orchestra cellist almost barred from US tour
The musician was initially informed by the US consulate in Budapest that he would not be authorised to enter America due to President Trump's temporary travel ban
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BlogsHow do I overcome the fear of not being good enough?
Brian Hodges and Diana Allan answer student questions on coping with stage fright
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BlogsHow to bring 'grain' to your sound - cellist and baritone Matthew Sharp
The British artist describes how to use the body to create a 'fearlessness of expression' and to give the sound meaning 'beyond surface preoccupations'
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ArticleLuthier Hans Benning remembers violinist Jascha Heifetz
One day he came into my shop, randomly picked up a bow and played about ten notes on it. 'It's mine,' he said. 'But Mr Heifetz,' I said, 'that's a cello bow!'' 'He was a deep thinking man. He would tell me, 'Hans, it's very lonely at ...
