All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 321
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ArticleShore: Ruin and Memory (Concerto for Piano and Orchestra); Mythic Gardens (Concerto for Cello and Orchestra)
The Strad Issue: June 2017Description: Two concert-hall concertos from a film-music heavyweightMusicians: Sophie Shao (cello) Lang Lang (piano) China Philharmonic Orchestra/Long Yu, 21st Century Chamber Orchestra1/Ludwig WickiComposer: Howard ShoreCatalogue Number: SONY CLASSICAL 88985348732If you liked the soundtrack for the film trilogy The Lord of the Rings, you ...
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ArticleThe Juilliard School reveals designs for its new Tianjin Juilliard School in China
The Juilliard School has unveiled the preliminary designs for its new Tianjin Juilliard School, due to open in China in 2019. Construction of the facility will be overseen by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the same firm that was responsible for the 2009 renovations of Juilliard's New York City campus and ...
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FocusHow do you choose instrumental repertoire for a student?
The Strad's panel of experts answer string teaching questions from readers as part of our Teacher Talk series
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ArticleRavel: Violin Sonata no.1 in A minor ‘Sonate posthume’, Prokofiev: Violin Sonata no.2 in D major, Strauss: Violin Sonata in E flat major
The Strad Issue: June 2017Description: A multi-sensory approach brings a vivid recital to colourful lifeMusicians: Tobias Feldmann (violin), Boris Kusnezow (piano)Composer: Ravel, Prokofiev, StraussCatalogue Number: ALPHA CLASSICS 253The colour palette at the heart of Tobias Feldmann’s Polychrome disc is an exacting, not to say synaesthetic, one, as ...
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ArticleSchumann: Violin Sonata no.1 in A minor op.105; Drei Fantasiestücke op.73, Brahms: Scherzo in C minor from the F-A-E Sonata, Bach: Violin Sonata no.4 in C minor BWV1017
The Strad Issue: June 2017Description: Live and studio performances from a legendary dynamic duoMusicians: Itzhak Perlman (violin), Martha Argerich (piano)Composer: Schumann, Brahms, BachCatalogue Number: WARNER CLASSICS 0190295937898The Schumann recording here is of a live performance in New York in 1998; the rest was recorded in a Paris ...
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ArticleSchubert: String Quartet in G major D887, Haydn: String Quartet in G minor op.20 no.3
The Strad Issue: June 2017Description: Theatrical playing that’s almost too intense but always interestingMusicians: Tetzlaff QuartetComposer: Schubert, HaydnCatalogue Number: ONDINE ODE 1293-2Extreme dynamics feature from the opening of Schubert’s G major Quartet – there is an alarming crescendo not far from the start. The sound has an ...
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ArticleCellists Thomas Mesa and Zlatomir Fung win 2017 Astral Auditions
The two cellists are among six young musicians chosen for the Astral Artists career development programme over the next four years
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ArticleMozart: Sonatas for keyboard and violin: no.12 in G major K27, no.16 in B flat major K31, no.17 in C major K296, no.23 in D major K306, no.32 in B flat major K454, no.36 in F major K547 ‘For Beginners
The Strad Issue: June 2017Description: Characteristically invigorating performances from two fine Mozartian’sMusicians: Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)Composer: MozartCatalogue Number: HYPERION CDA 68143 (2 CDs)This seasoned duo’s two-disc-for-one Mozart package takes in six works spanning more than 20 years from the two juvenile essays (K27, K31) of ...
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ArticleLeonidas Kavakos acquires 1734 ‘Willemotte’ Stradivarius violin
The violinist first encountered the instrument in 1994 and was reunited with it more than 20 years later through Florian Leonhard Fine Violins
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ArticleFrom the Archive: the Antonio Stradivari, 'Lord Norton', violin 1737
This illustration of a violin by Antonio Stradivari was published in The Strad, July 1987. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photograph: The violin is named after Lord Norton, who purchased it from George Hart shortly after the sale of the Gillot collection at Christies in ...
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ArticleViolinist Ana Chumachenco on body movement when playing
When you play you are moving around everywhere, but in the most important places for you to be free - the arms and torso - you are tense' Italian violinist Ana Chumachenco discusses body movement in Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto in a masterclass recorded at the Verbier ...
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ArticleInternational Society of Bassists names winners of Performance and Makers competitions
Aaron Olguin was awarded the Gary Karr Prize in the Solo Division of the Performance Competition, while Convention Favourite in the Makers Competition was awarded to Arnold Schnitzer
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ArticleMusic for Two Violas - Jacob: Sonatina, Druzhinin: Sinfonia a Due, Rubbra: Meditations on a Byzantine Hymn ‘O quando in cruce’ op.117a, Prokofiev: (arr. Vadim Borisovsky) Two movements from Romeo and
The Strad Issue: June 2017Description: All roads lead back to Tertis in music for duetting violasMusicians: Peter Mallinson (viola), Matthias Wiesner (viola), Evgenia Startseva (piano), Oliver Lowe (triangle)Composer: Jacob, Druzhinin, Rubbra, Prokofiev, Bridge, Pytor Bulhakov, KhatchaturianCatalogue Number: MERIDIAN CDE 84641It seems appropriate that two members of the ...
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ArticleMendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor op.64, String Octet in E flat major op.20
The Strad Issue: June 2017Description: Searching musicianship yields some satisfying answersMusicians: Lisa Ferschtman (violin), Het Gelders Orkest/Kees BakelsComposer: MendelssohnCatalogue Number: CHALLENGE CLASSICS CC72748Does the world need another recording of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto? Liza Ferschtman bravely asks the question herself in the CD booklet, before telling us of ...
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ArticleViolinist Hilary Hahn performs music for babies
In the video above Hilary Hahn gives a concert for babies on 28 April 2017 in association with the Auditorium of the National Orchestra of Lyon. The violinist announced in March that she would give concerts for parents and babies, having identified a gap in the market ...
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ArticleRemembering Bernard Millant 1929–2017
The esteemed bow maker, dealer, author and expert died in April aged 87. Jean-François Raffin, who worked with Millant and co-authored the celebrated three-volume work L'Archet with him, remembers his friend and colleague
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ArticleThe Strad July 2017 issue is out now
UK period ensemble the Chiaroscuro Quartet discusses Haydn's 'Sun' quartets and the dawn of the string quartet genre
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ArticleHartmann: Concerto funèbre, Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in D minor, Respighi: Antiche danze ed arie (Suite no.3), Schubert: Rondo in A major for violin and string orchestra D438
Bohren dispenses with the myth of the difficult second album
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ArticleWIN the Chiaroscuro Quartet's latest Haydn CD
In the July 2017 issue of The Strad, we talk to the four members of the Chiaroscuro Quartet – violinists Alina Ibragimova and Pablo Hernán Benedí, violist Emilie Hörnlund and cellist Claire Thirion – about their continuing fascination with the works of Franz Joseph Haydn, whose string quartets they are ...
