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NewsTwo new members among big changes for Fine Arts Quartet in 72nd season
Milwaukee based chamber group is changing both viola and cello, while also ending its University of Wisconsin residency after 55 seasons
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VideoViktoria Mullova plays encore by her son, Misha Mullov-Abbado
Filmed on 12 December, this video shows Viktoria Mullova at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie playing an encore composed by her son, jazz bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado. The work, ‘Brazil’, was premiered by the violinist in 2014 as part of her ‘Stradivarius in Rio’ project.
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VideoChiaroscuro Quartet: A tribute to our suitcases and British Airways
It sounds like the members of the Chiaroscuro Quartet, led by Alina Ibragimova, have been having some airline trouble – although for a change this isn’t related to taking their instruments as hand luggage but rather the disappearance of their hold luggage.
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FocusFrom the archive: an interview with Amnon Weinstein in 1991
This photo of an experimental viola design was included in an article by Shmuel Segal in the October 1991 issue of The Strad on the Weinstein workshop in Tel Aviv. Amnon Weinstein has more recently been noted for his ‘Violins for Hope’ project
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VideoAmit Peled on 'A Cello Named Pablo'
This video from Washington DC based WDCW news features cellist Amit Peled talking about a new children’s book about him and the Goffriller cello once played by Pablo Casals Watch: Video: how I came to play Pablo Casals’s 1733 Goffriller cello, by Amit Peled
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ReviewMadeleine Mitchell: Violin Muse – contemporary violin music
The Strad Issue: December 2017Description: Nicely paced collection of contemporary violin music Musicians: Madeleine Mitchell (violin) Cerys Jones (violin) Nigel Clayton (piano) BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Edwin Outwater Works: POOLE Rhapsody PUW Violin Concerto ‘Soft Stillness’; D. MATTHEWS Romanza; S. HARRISON Aurea Luce; WEIR Atlantic ...
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ReviewAnne Akiko Meyers: Fantasia
The Strad Issue: December 2017Description: Opulent performances of violin works spanning a hundred yearsMusicians: Anne Akiko Meyers (violin) Philharmonia Orchestra/Kristjan Järvi Works: RAUTAVAARA Fantasia; SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto no.1 op.35; RAVEL Tzigane Catalogue Number: AVIE AV 2385 As little as a decade ago, the First Violin ...
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ReviewEric Grossman: Ferdinand Ries, Sonatas for Violin and Piano, vol.2
The Strad Issue: December 2017Description: Sonatas written in Beethoven’s mighty shadow are worth discovering Musicians: Eric Grossman (violin) Susan Kogan (piano) Works: RIES Violin Sonatas: in B flat major op.16 no.2; in E minor op.38 no.1; in A minor op.38 no.2 Catalogue Number: NAXOS 8.573717 Ferdinand ...
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ReviewHenning Kraggerud: Between the Seasons
The Strad Issue: December 2017Description: A cool Nordic wind blows through these SeasonsMusicians: Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra/Henning Kraggerud (violin) Works: VIVALDI The Four Seasons; KRAGGERUD Preghiera, Postlude in B flat minor (Equinox), The last leaf – Magnus in Memoriam, Victimae Paschali Catalogue Number: SIMAX PSC1356 This ...
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ReviewRaphaela Gromes: Serenata Italiana
The Strad Issue: December 2017Description: Some attractive discoveries in this recital of fin-de-siècle Italian musicMusicians: Raphaela Gromes (cello) Julian Riem (piano) Works: BUSONI Serenata op.34; MARTUCCI Cello Sonata op.52; CASELLA Notturno e tarantella op.54; SINIGAGLIA Two Pieces op.16; CAPUIS Animato con passione; CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Paraphrase on ‘Largo ...
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ReviewGuy Johnston: Tecchler’s Cello – From Cambridge To Rome
The Strad Issue: December 2017Description: Music in celebration of a cello’s 300th birthdayMusicians: Guy Johnston (cello), Sheku Kanneh- Mason (cello), Magnus Johnston (violin), Tom Poster (piano), Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Carlo Rizzari Works: GJEILO Serenity; DAVID MATTHEWS Ein Celloleben; ...
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NewsThe Strad January 2018 issue is out now
Yo-Yo Ma’s initiative to encourage young players in Guangdong, and his enthusiasm for making all kinds of connections
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VideoCan you hear the difference between a cheap and expensive violin bow?
Violinist Esther Abrami visits Florian Leonhard Fine Violins to try three bows: a $40.000 François Voirin, a $90.000 Joseph Henry, and a $160.000 Dominique Peccatte - and compare them to one worth €500. The violin is a 1690 Stradivari.
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FocusYo-Yo Ma on making artistic connections and raising balanced musicians
This month Yo-Yo Ma returns as artistic director of his Chinese education initiative Youth Music Culture Guangdong, a programme that aims to create balanced, astute and connected musicians. Charlotte Smith explores the ideas behind the cellist’s approach
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NewsBritish Airways and musicians: an explainer
Recent coverage has served to confuse matters, with suggestions that the airline had changed its policy to effectively ban small instruments as hand luggage – this was never the case
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FocusThe Strad features index: online for the first time
A fully searchable document containing listings of 4652 articles published in the past 21 years
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FocusKian Soltani on his debut album and Robert Schumann
In this video from Deutsche Grammophon, cellist Kian Soltani, talks about his debut album, due for release in January 2018. Soltani signed with DG earlier this year and has recently won the Lucerne Festival’s Credit Suisse Young Artist Award and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival’s Leonard Bernstein Award
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VideoFranck Violin Sonata in A Major FWV8 (cello arrangement) Allegretto - Edgar Moreau
A preview to his upcoming album of French Cello Sonatas, this video features Edgar Moreau with pianist David Kadouch playing a cello arrangement of Franck’s Violin Sonata in A Major FWV8.
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VideoSirena Huang at TED2006
Many Strad readers will by familiar with Sirena Huang from recent competition success but the now 23-year-old violinist has been in the public eye for mroe than half her life. Her debut as a soloist with orchestra came at age nine and in this video (above) a couple of years ...
