All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 318
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VideoThe Strad Masterclass: violinist Vadim Repin on Chausson's Poème op.25
’There are light and hopeful moments, but also very sad moments of absolute hopelessness’ Violinist Vadim Repin speaks about performing Chausson’s Poème op.25 to The Strad, and performs the work in the video above with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta in 2011. Repin continues The Strad’s marked-up ...
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ArticleNicola Benedetti performs Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto in 2017
UK violinist Nicola Benedetti performs Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto with the Gothenburg Symphony conducted by Thomas SøndergŠrd in April 2017. Watch: Violinist Nicola Benedetti on the physicality of playing Watch: Violinist Nicola Benedetti gives Ysaÿe masterclass
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ArticleHow to balance the left-hand when playing chords and double stops
The Berlin University of the Arts and London Royal Academy of Music viola professor speaks about left arm set-up when playing multiple notes simultaneously
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ArticleViolinist Janine Jansen performs Kreisler's Marche Miniature Viennoise
Violinist Janine Jansen performs Kreisler's Marche Miniature Viennoise with pianist Magda Amara on Podium Witteman in May 2016. Read: Janine Jansen receives 1707 Stradivarius violin on ten-year loan Watch: Violinist Janine Jansen performs Brahms aged 13 Watch: Janine Jansen performs Brahms Violin Concerto
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ArticleCellist Steven Isserlis receives €25,000 Glashütte Original Music Festival Award
The artist will donate his cash prize to the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove, London Music Masters and Rhapsody in School programmes
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ArticleAizuri Quartet takes top string quartet prize at Osaka International Chamber Music Competition
The US group, which won third prize at the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, receives JPY 3m (£20,700) for its Osaka win
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ArticleUlysses Quartet violist told his instrument is too large to be stowed in ANA flight cabin
Violist Colin Brookes says his violinist colleagues were told their instruments could be stowed in the cabin on the ANA flight, but that his viola should be checked into the hold
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ArticleViolinist Nicola Benedetti receives Queen's Medal for Music
Established in 2005, the UK medal is awarded annually to 'an outstanding individual or group of musicians who have had a major influence on the musical life of the nation'
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ArticleSaint-Saëns: Cello Concerto no.1 in A minor op.33; Cello Sonatas: no.2 in F major op.123, no.3 in D major op. posth. (first recording)
The Strad Issue: May 2017Description: Poetic and well-balanced playing that’s full of colourMusicians: Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) Pascal Amoyel (piano) Lucerne Symphony Orchestra/James GaffiganComposer: Saint-SaënsCatalogue Number: HARMONIA MUNDI HMM 902210This cellist-orchestra-conductor-label collaboration has brought us Shostakovich, Dutilleux, Rihm and Dvorák, and it’s fascinating how the established dynamic throws ...
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ArticleSkog: Violin Concerto no.1; Nilsson: Violin Concerto no.1
The Strad Issue: May 2017Description: Making the best case for ultimately undemonstrative musicMusicians: Cecilia Zilliacus (violin) Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra/Anna-Maria Helsing, VästerŠs Sinfonietta/Fredrik BurstedtComposer: Skog, NilssonCatalogue Number: 1 DB PRODUCTIONS dBCD179Two accessible contemporary violin concertos by Swedish composers, given persuasive performances by their compatriot Cecilia Zilliacus, make for ...
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ArticleTchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major op.35; Lalo: Symphonie espagnole op.21
The Strad Issue: May 2017Description: Two virtuoso concertos given immaculate live performancesMusicians: Augustin Hadelich (violin) London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vasily Petrenko, Omer Meir WellberComposer: Tchaikovsky, LaloCatalogue Number: LPO 0094This CD is curiously compiled from two live concerts given nearly a year apart in London’s Royal Festival Hall. The link, ...
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ArticleTchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings; Sibelius: String Quartet in D minor op.56 ‘Voces intimae’
The Strad Issue: May 2017Description: Delicious moments in the ‘boosted’ string quartet soundMusicians: Orchestra of the Auvergne/Roberto Forés Veses APARTE AP139Composer: Tchaikovsky, SibeliusCatalogue Number: APARTE AP139In an age when Sibelius’s op.56 String Quartet is so often played without anything like the intimacy its title speaks of, you ...
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ArticleViolinist Hilary Hahn performs Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending
US violinist Hilary Hahn performs Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending with Camerata Salzburg at the George Enescu Festival in October 2013. Read: Violinist Hilary Hahn on practice and interpretation Watch: Violinist Hilary Hahn on owning the stage
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ArticlePublic outpouring of support for Venezuelan violinist whose instrument was broken during protest
Wuilly Arteaga has become known in Venezuela for performing his violin as a method of peaceful protest at the country's street demonstrations
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ArticleProkofiev: Cello Sonata in C major, Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor, Tchaikovsky: Romance; Meditation
The Strad Issue: May 2017Description: Rich and reflective interpretations of Russian cello repertoireMusicians: Nina Kotova (cello), Fabio Bidini (piano)Composer: Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, TchaikovskyCatalogue Number: WARNER CLASSICS 0190295924607 Nina Kotova brings a full, rich cantabile to the broad and masculine melody that opens Prokofiev’s C major Sonata. Her C-string ...
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ArticleStringed instrument collector and tropical fish expert Herbert Axelrod has died, aged 89
Axelrod was a violinist and philanthropist who was accused of misrepresenting the value and lineage of instruments in his collection
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ArticleManchester orchestras unite for performance in support of bombing victims and families
The Hallé, BBC Philharmonic and Manchester Camerata will perform under conductors Sir Mark Elder and Stephen Bell at the free event at Bridgewater Hall
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ArticleHow the sale of a rediscovered Guarneri 'del Gesù' violin is helping to promote female composers
Pianist Diana Ambache explains how she came to set up the Ambache Charitable Trust with proceeds from the sale of a 1735 Guarneri del Gesù violin, discovered in her late father's collection
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ArticleFrom the Archive: a violin by Alessandro Gagliano, 'Rotondo', 1710
This illustration of a violin by Alessandro Gagliano was published in The Strad, May 1987. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: Alessandro Gagliano worked in Naples from about 1700 to 1735. He is the first recorded Neapolitan violin maker, his work is relatively rare and ...
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ArticlePinchas Zukerman performs Brahms and Bach violin concertos
Pinchas Zukerman performs Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor followed by Brahms's Violin Concerto with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in celebration of Zubin Mehta's birthday in April 2016. Zukerman conducts from the violin for the Bach, while Mehta takes to the podium to conduct the Brahms. Read: ...
