All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 328
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VideoNuno Santos Violin - A Violin In The Most Unlikely Places
Portuguese violinist and surfer Nuno Santos has been taking his violin out into the giant waves at Nazaré – or rather a series of violins, since they don’t always survive intact. The Strad doesn’t condone putting a violin in the sea, whether it is cheap and mass-produced or not. However, ...
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NewsNew violin created to commemorate first world war poet Siegfried Sassoon
The instrument is made from the same branch as Wilfred Owen violin made in 2014, from a sycamore in the grounds of the hospital where they met
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VideoMarc Sabbah plays Vieuxtemps' Capriccio 'Hommage à Paganini' for solo viola
From a live concert recording in Hoepertingen, Belgium, on 24 June. New Yorker Marc Sabbah, 29, is currently based in Brussels, where he performs with the National Orchestra of Belgium. He has taken first prizes at the Amsterdam National Viola Competition in 2013, the 2016 Rising Stars Grand Prix in ...
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ReviewHolt: Third Quartet, Dennehy: The Weather of It, Gilbert: Haven of Mysteries
The Strad Issue: August 2017Description: Exciting performances of new music captured live in London Musicians: Jack Quartet, Doric Quartet, Carducci Quartet, Guy Johnston (cello)Composer: Holt, Dennehy, GilbertCatalogue Number: NMC NMCD216 Wigmore Hall shows its commitment to developing chamber music repertoire with Bracing ...
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ReviewJust a Motion in the Air - Krenek: Vocalise; Viola Sonata op.117; Sonata for viola solo op.92 no.3; Songs, Schumann: Adagio and Allegro op.70; Märchenbilder op.113; Songs
A disc of two contrasting halves, both eloquent and rewarding
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ReviewLeclair: Violin Concertos op.7, no.1 in D minor, no.3 in C major, no.4 in F major, no.5 in A minor
Virtuoso French Baroque concertos given charismatic readings
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GalleryFrom the archive: the 1717 Montagnana viola once belonging to Lionel Tertis
These photographs were published in the September 1988 issue of The Strad. The following text is from the article they accompanied, in which Tully Potter examines the recent lineage of the instrument, including interviewing current owner Roger Chase
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Video17-year-old Moné Hattori plays Ysaÿe Sonata no.2, (4th mvmnt, 'Les Furies')
Japanese violinist Moné Hattori, who won the inaugural Boris Goldstein International Violin Competition in 2015, joined the International Classical Artists roster earlier this year. The artist management agency posted this video last week. Hattori plays a 1743 violin by Pietro Guarneri of Venice.
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ReviewSerenade - Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence; Valse sentimentale op.51 no.6 (arr. Schmidt); October op.37 (arr. Schmidt); Nocturne op.19 no.4; Serenade in C major op.48
Deliciously rich and full-fat accounts of high Romantic repertoire
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FocusRalph Kirshbaum discusses the personal significance of the Elgar Cello Concerto
In the ‘Sentimental Work’ column in the August 2017 issue of The Strad, the US cellist and pedagogue tells how the Elgar Concerto has played a part in some of his most memorable and emotional concerts
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VideoThe Violinist Leonidas Kavakos - excerpt from Deutsche Welle documentary
In this clip from the 2015 documentary The Violinist Leonidas Kavakos broadcast on Deutsche Welle, he makes a visit to Florian Leonhard Fine Violins to try out some instruments. Both Kavako’s previous Stradivari, the 1724 ’Abergavenny’, and his current 1734 ’Willemotte’ acquired earlier this year, have come via the London-based ...
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ReviewMaestro Corelli's Violins - Montanari: Concerto no.1 in D minor op.2; Concertos op.1: no.6 etc., Mossi: Concerto grosso in E minor op.4 etc.
Three Corelli contemporaries explore the concerto grosso style
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NewsProtest violinist Wuilly Arteaga released from custody in Venezuela
Violinst trained in El Sistema, who has become familiar face of anti-government protests, was arrested three weeks ago
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NewsThe Strad September 2017 issue
is out nowCelebrated American violin tutor Dorothy DeLay remembered by former students, including Itzhak Perlman and Philippe Quint
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ReviewMozarteum Double Bass Sound - works by Bottesini, Bruch, Bragato, Findelsen, Bertold Hummel, Françaix, Chihara, Piazzolla, Egilsson, Hoock, Metcalfe and Tabakov
A remarkable, multifaceted exploration of the 21st-century double bass
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NewsViola player ‘humiliated’ by experience at British Airways check-in
Violist Rachel Roberts has called for a boycott of British Airways by musicians following a recent experience at the check-in counter at Dublin Airport
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NewsEllinor D'Melon plays Mozart Violin Concerto no.5, 3rd movement
In this video, 15-year-old Ellinor D’Melon plays the Mozart’s Violin Concerto no.5 (3rd movement) with Freixenet Symphony Orchestra of the Queen Sofía College of Music in Madrid under conductor Zubin Mehta. D’Melon was born in Kingston, Jamaica, beginning violin lessons at the age of two and a half. She then ...
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VideoStéphane Grappelli live in 1978
In this video from 1978, legendary French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli plays live on Canadian television talk show 90 Minutes Live
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VideoPekka Kuusisto plays Finnish folk song
In this second instalment of Pekka Kuusisto’s folk song videos from his home in Finland, the violinst plays a minuet from the village of Tuikka (Tjöck) in Ostrobothnia, a region of western Finland.
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ReviewShostakovich: Cello Concerto no.2, Martinů: Cello Concerto no.2
A near-ideal balance between light and shade in these two concertos
