All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 354
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VideoNazrin Rashidova plays Émile Sauret's Études-Caprices on the 'Sauret' Stradivari
Ahead of the release of the second volume of her recordings of the works, Nazrin Rashidova tells The Strad about the uniquely appropriate instrument she is using
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VideoYehudi Menuhin and Glenn Gould perform Bach
In this video, filmed for television in 1965, Yehudi Menuhin and Glenn Gould perform the Adagio from Bach’s Violin Sonata no.4 in C minor, BWV 1017
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ReviewGraham Fitkin, String Quartets: Sacconi Quartet
Inviting performances of engaging contemporary minimalism
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VideoPaul Tortelier performs Beethoven Cello Sonata no.3, first movement
In this video filmed in 1969 at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, legendary French cellist Paul Tortelier performs the first movement of Beethoven’s Cello Sonata no.3 with pianist Sergio Lorenzi.
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VideoCollaborative violin making - LIVE!
This is a live stream from the Violin Makers project at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK, during its Strings Festival. Luthiers Kai-Thomas Roth, William Castle, Marc Soubeyran and Tibor Szemmelveisz are collaborating on building two violins in seven days (2-8 March) - one is based on ...
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NewsViolin belonging to Einstein comes to auction in New York
Instrument gifted to scientist in 1933 is estimated to sell for between $100,000 and $150,000
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NewsPetition to save Indiana University's violin making and restoration programme
Responding to the retirement of the current director with no apparent replacement, students and alumni are concerned the Jacobs School of Music intends to quietly shut down the Violin Shop
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VideoPatricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta play Ravel duo
Filmed in a concert at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival 2014, this video features Austrian-Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta performing the third movement of Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello
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VideoThe Hagen Quartet plays the second movement of the Ravel quartet
The Hagen Quartet (Lukas Hagen and Rainer Schmidt, violins, Veronika Hagen, viola, Clemens Hagen, cello) perform the second movement of Ravel’s String Quartet in F at the Salzburg Mozarteum in 2000.
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FocusStrings in film: Leading screen composers discuss their use of the broad string palette
Strings have played a fundamental role in the history of film music, but exactly what makes them so effective at ‘tapping into the invisible’?
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ReviewTabea Zimmermann, Jörg Widmann, Dénes Várjon: Once Upon a Time – works by Schumann and Widmann
Fantasy and fairy tales are at the heart of a gripping recital
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VideoWhen a string snaps mid performance: Kristine Balanas at the Latvian Music Awards
Kristine Balanas breaks an E string in the closing bars of Wieniawski’s Polonaise Brillante no.1 in D major. The performance took place on 6 March at the Latvian Music Awards ceremony with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Guntis Kuzma. The concertmaster who swapped violins is Sandis Šteinbergs. Watch ...
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ReviewArod Quartet: Mendelssohn, works for quartet
Outstanding musicianship makes for an impressive recording debut
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ReviewClare Howick: British Violin Concertos - Paul Patterson, Kenneth Leighton, Gordon Jacob
Brilliant performances of highly distilled British concertos
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NewsEinstein violin smashes estimate to sell for over half a million dollars
Instrument gifted to scientist in 1933 makes $516,500 at Bonhams in New York
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NewsManhattan lawsuit over violin run over in parking garage
Degani violin claimed to be worth $85,000 destroyed when garage employee drove over it
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VideoViola tailpiece snaps during concert
This video has emerged from a concert which took place as part of the North Shore Chamber Music Festival in Chicago in June 2017. Violinist Vadim Gluzman and violist Paul Neubauer perform Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra conducted by David Danzmayr, when Neubauer’s tailpiece snaps, and a ...
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VideoRoyal Academy of Music reveals new opera theatre and facilities
The building project, which began in 2015 with the closure of the Sir Jack Lyons theatre, was funded largely through a £30m fundraising campaign
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FocusFrom the archive: a 1724 cello by Alessandro Gagliano
In this article from the May 2005 issue, John Dilworth examines a fine 1724 cello by Alessandro Gagliano, founding father of the Neapolitan violin making dynasty
