All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 322
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ArticleVibrato in slow motion - on violin and cello
As part of a series of studies on vibrato pitch centre (2004, 2005, 2014), researchers Rebecca MacLeod of the University of North Carolina and John Geringer of Florida State University asked 60 university string players and a former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic to perform a ...
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ArticleGlière: Deux pièces op.32, Deux morceaux op.9; Koussevitzky: Chanson triste op.2, Valse miniature op.1 no.2; Bruch: Kol nidrei; Brahms: Cello Sonata no.1 in E minor op.38
Virtuoso double bassist gives cellists a run for their money
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Article5 ways for musicians to receive concert and festival bookings
Erik Christian Peterson and Emily Ondracek-Peterson - co-artistic directors of the Crested Butte Music Festival and members of the Voxare String Quartet - share five attributes presenters look for when booking musicians
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ArticleMusician told to leave Aer Lingus flight for attempting to stow her violin in the cabin
Freelance musician and Alexander Technique tutor Aingeala De Búrca claims that she was removed from the flight from Bristol to Dublin this week when she attempted to stow her instrument in the overhead locker
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ArticleDvorák: Piano trios nos.3 and 4 ‘Dumky’
Beautifully balanced light and shade leave little wanting
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ArticleChiaroscuro Quartet and pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout perform Mozart
UK period ensemble the Chiaroscuro Quartet - violinists Alina Ibragimova and Pablo Hernán Benedí, violist Emilie Hörnlund and cellist Claire Thirion - performs Mozart's Piano Concerto no.12 with pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout in a video filmed by BR-Klassik. In The Strad's July 2017 issue the Chiaroscuro Quartet discusses ...
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ArticleViolinist Ruggiero Ricci's three commandments - by former student Matthew Trusler
The British violinist - founder of Orchid Classics and co-artistic director of the Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival - shares the three main lessons he learned from his former teacher Ruggiero Ricci
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ArticleFrom the Archive: a violin by Nathaniel Cross, 'Aldermanbury'
This illustration of a violin by Nathaniel Cross was published in The Strad, August 1987. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photograph: Born in 1689, when the only possible social mobility was downward, and humility and hard work were the only defence against the gutter and ...
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ArticleHow I cope with the pressures of life as a soloist - Jordi Savall
The viola da gamba player and conductor advocates concentrating on the little things rather than stressing about the whole
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ArticleStudents forced to leave Newark School of Violin Making over revoked visas
Lincoln College, which manages the Newark School, has been stripped of its licence to issue international student visas following a poor Ofsted report in 2016
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ArticleMidori to join Curtis Institute of Music violin faculty in 2018
The violinist, who has taught at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music for 14 years, will join the Curtis Institute full-time from the 2018-2019 academic year
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ArticleNorwegian Air refuses to transport violin and viola in the cabin despite favourable hand baggage policy
Violinist AlÄ«na Vižine and violist Zane Š turme claim they were forced to check their instruments into the hold on the flight from Copenhagen to Riga, even though airline policy states violins and violas can be carried as hand luggage
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ArticleCalder Quartet signs exclusive recording contract with Pentatone
The US group’s first album for the label will focus on Beethoven quartets
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ArticleViolist Paul Neubauer on working with conductor Leonard Bernstein
Current Juilliard School viola professor Paul Neubauer served for six years as principal violist of the New York Philharmonic, where he worked with such conductors as Leonard Bernstein and Mstislav Rostropovich
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VideoThe Strad Masterclass: violist Paul Neubauer on Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata
‘This is not bombastic Schubert. It is a gentle piece and it’s not about showing off - it’s about sharing music between friends’ ViolistPaul Neubauer speaks about performing the second and third movements of Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata to The Strad, and performs the work in the video above in an ...
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ArticleVienna Philharmonic audition masterclass - principal cellist Tamás Varga on Brahms
There are two separate statements in the opening: the first is hopeful and questioning; the second provides an answer' Vienna Philharmonic principal cellist Tamás Varga coaches Clara Abel on an excerpt from Brahms’s Symphony no. 2 in the Resnick Education Wing of New York's Carnegie Hall on ...
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ArticleCellist Ben Davies joins Birmingham Conservatoire string faculty
Davies has previously taught at the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Holloway University of London, Marlborough College, Wells Cathedral School and the Guildhall School of Music
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ArticleHaydn's music is much more unpredictable than Mozart's - the Chiaroscuro Quartet
For their new release the players of the Chiaroscuro Quartet have put their gut strings and period bows to work on Haydn's kaleidoscopic op.20 'Sun' quartets - the second of two recordings. Helen Wallace meets the musicians during rehearsals.
