All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 332
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NewsCosima Soulez-Larivière wins inaugural Bartók World Competition
Twenty-year-old, educated at Menuhin School in England, takes first prize in all-female final
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VideoEivind Holtsmark Ringstad plays Vieuxtemps' Élégie
Norwegian violist Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad is a current BBC New Generation Artist and a former winner of the Eurovision Young Musician competition (2012). Here he plays Vieuxtemps’ Élégie op.30 with pianist David Meier. Holtsmark Ringstad plays a 1768 Guadagnini viola on loan from Dextra Musica, the musical instrument scheme ...
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FocusFrom the archive: A violin by G. B. Guadagnini, 1743, in the context of booming auction results
This photo was published in the January 1989 issue of The Strad as part of a round-up of London auction sales the previous November – Robert Lewin, a contributor to the Strad for over 40 years, diagnosed ‘violin fever’
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ReviewFeldman: Patterns in a Chromatic Field
The Strad Issue: September 2017Description: Listen very carefully and this eerily quiet music will draw you inMusicians: Rohan de Saram (cello) Marianne Schroeder (piano) Composer: Feldman Catalogue Number: HAT HATNOWART 2204 (2 CDs) Written in 1981, Patterns in a Chromatic Field is ...
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VideoHenning Kraggerud's Musical Calendar
In this video, recorded over the course of 2016, Norwegian violinist and composer Henning Kraggerud and his then nine-year-old daughter Alma play his Musical Calendar. Composed as a Christmas gift to friends and family in 1992, the Musical Calendar features a duet for each month of the year. All the ...
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ReviewGrieg – Violin Sonatas: no.1 in F major op.8, no.2 in G major op.13, no.3 in C minor op.45
The Strad Issue: September 2017Description: An intoxicating, exhilarating recording of lesser-known Grieg Musicians: Maya Levy (violin) Matthieu Idmtal (piano) Composer: Grieg Catalogue Number: PAVANE ADW 7585 Although Grieg’s C minor Sonata (no.3) has been a staple recital favourite for many years, its younger siblings ...
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VideoLuthiers Stefan-Peter Greiner and Mark Jennings at IMS Prussia Cove
The materials on day one With sounds of rehearsals in the background, luthiers Stefan-Peter Greiner and Mark Jennings remove the mould from the violin they are working on collaboratively while resident at the International Musicians Seminar (IMS) at in Cornwall, England. ‘The project will help the musicians ...
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NewsThe Strad October 2017 issue is out now
Frank Peter Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit and Christian Poltéra on learning to work as one in the Trio Zimmermann
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BlogsBecoming a better and happier musician through mindfulness and yoga
Violinists Elena Urioste and Melissa White’s musical lives have been transformed by yoga, finding both body and mind freer and more resilient against the rigours of life as a professional musician
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FocusTrio Zimmermann discuss how forming the group has changed them as musicians
A decade after its founding, Trio Zimmermann has put the string trio back in the spotlight. How does this all-star ensemble function, and can it save the string trio from obscurity? Andrew Mellor went to meet its members
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VideoNigel Kennedy talks about his devotion to Aston Villa F.C.
’One time I took two years off the violin to watch the Villa, and I used to watch the Villa, the Villa reserves and the Villa youth team, every week … some people would call it wasting your life.’ In this video from Deutsche Welle’s English language football YouTube channell ...
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FocusFrom The Strad Calendar 2018: Giuseppe Guarneri ‘filius Andreae’ cello, c.1710
Based in Cremona, the Friends of Stradivari network brings together instruments owned by collectors and stringed-instrument enthusiasts from around the world. The Strad Calendar 2018 celebrates twelve of these treasures, starting in January with this cello. Text by John Dilworth
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NewsZhuhai International Mozart Competition enters violin finals
Young musician competition has announced winners for two of three age groups
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FocusReverse engineering: explaining a Cremonese mystery by making the insides of the arches first
In his search for the secrets behind the classic arching technique of the Cremonese makers, Torbjörn Zethelius uncovered some revealing insights in this article from The Strad August 2006 issue. He will be returning to the topic in the November 2017 issue with observations from the intervening decade
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ReviewNowakovski: String Quartet no.1 ‘Songs of Forgiveness’; Blood, Forgotten1; String Quartet no.2 ‘Grandfather Songs’; Lullaby: O Sleep for Me, Sleep
The Strad Issue: September 2017Description: Ancestral sorrows explored in contemporary string quartetsMusicians: Emily Ondracek-Peterson (violin), Voxare Quartet Composer: Nowakowski Catalogue Number: NAXOS 8.559821 The Polish heritage of American composer Mark Nowakowski (b.1978) is a guiding spirit in these chamber works. The subtitles ...
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ReviewProkofiev: Violin Concertos nos.1 and 2
The Strad Issue: September 2017Description: Tremendously stylish versions of these acerbic Russian concertosMusicians: Matthew Trusler (violin), BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Grant Llewellyn Composer: ProkofievCatalogue Number: ORCHID CLASSICS ORC 100070 If it’s become fashionable in recent years to miniaturise and prettify the Prokofiev ...
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VideoFrank Peter Zimmermann plays violin transcription of Rachmaninoff Prelude no.5
Frank Peter Zimmermann appears in the October issue of The Strad as part of the Trio Zimmermann, but here he is as soloist, playing Ernst Schliephake’s violin transcription of Rachmaninoff’s Prelude op.23 No. 5 in G Minor.
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NewsPatricia Kopatchinskaja awarded $100,000 Swiss music prize
Government-sponsored prize selects violinist for its top music honour, the Grand Prix suisse de musique
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ArticleFlying high: an El Sistema inspired music education programme in China
Inspired by Venezuela’s El Sistema, China’s Wings of Music aims to bring dignity and self-belief to some of the country’s most deprived children. Nancy Pellegrini reports in this article from 2013
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NewsZoë Keating reunited with cello after over 24 hours of it lost in airport luggage system
Drama plays out on Twitter for innovative cellist, travelling to London from Düsseldorf for Kings Place concert
