All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 368
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Video'Playing', a short film from St Mary's Music School, Edinburgh
Violinist Nicola Benedetti and cellist Steven Isserlis feature in this new short film showing them tutoring pupils from Scotland’s national music school, St Mary’s in Edinburgh. The teenage pupils on the brink of leaving the school are violinist Sophie Williams and cellist Hugh MacKay.
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FocusMaxim Vengerov: Me and my Strads
In conversation with Sota Nakazawa, Russian virtuoso Maxim Vengerov explains his love for Stradivari instruments, and his long relationship with them
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NewsNicola Benedetti joins ESTA UK as president
Scottish violinist is expected to sit for a three- to four-year term as head of European String Teachers Association’s UK chapter
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BlogsLayale Chaker on the violin as cultural chameleon
The Lebanese composer and violinist discusses the ease with which the violin can drift between genres – and why she has devoted her creative life to doing just that
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News15-strong double bass ensemble plays Joe Hisaishi medley
A double bass ensemble from the School of Music at Korea’s National University of Arts performs a medley of Studio Ghibli film themes by Joe Hisaishi, in an arrangement by Yang Joon Suk.
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ReviewJerusalem Quartet: Dvořák String Quintet and Sextet, with Veronika Hagen and Gary Hoffman
Perfectly matched music and musicians capture Dvořák’s glow
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ReviewAlina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien: Mozart Violin Sonatas, vol.5
Another outstanding Mozart release from this partnership
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ReviewPoul Ruders: Viola Concerto, Handel Variations. Lars Anders Tomter, Aarhus SO
Authoritative playing of music by a contemporary Danish composer
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ReviewSignum Quartet: Aus der Ferne – Schubert quartets and lieder arrangements
Schubert on strings, sweetly sung without words
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VideoNexus Chamber Music Chicago: A Seated Staccato
Two members of NEXUS, a Chicago based chamber music collective, share a somewhat laid-back version of violin showpiece Hora Staccato Brian J. Hong, violin, Alexander Hersh, cello
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NewsObituary: Dominik Połoński, 1977–2018
Polish cellist who kept playing one-armed after a brain tumour surgery incapacitated his left side, succumbs to return of disease at the age of 41
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NewsWashington International String Competition names 2018 winners
Event dispenses total of $40,000 to young string players, with three joint winners on violin, viola and cello
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GalleryIn focus: violin by G.B. Rogeri
In this article from the October 2009 issue, Philip Kass untangles Rogeri, Rugeri and the last Amati in taking a closer look at a late 17th-century violin by the first
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NewsApplications open for triennial Sendai International competition
Gidon Kremer named as returning jury member in seventh edition of Japanese event taking place in June 2019
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NewsNew record set for G.B. Guadagnini at London auction
The ‘Sinzheimer’ violin pushes past $2m mark in Tarisio auction, breaking previous record for maker set in 2016
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BlogsPutting students and professors in chamber music groups together is invigorating for both
In the run-up to the Guildhall School’s first chamber music festival, cello professor Ursula Smith reflects on the mutual benefits of its unique approach
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ReviewCaroline Goulding: Concertos by Korngold and Mozart
Prizewinning violinist’s debut concerto disc doesn’t disappoint
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VideoSignum Quartet: Arrangement of Schubert's song 'Du bist die Ruh'
From the album ‘Aus Der Ferne’, featuring Schubert quartets and lieder arrangements. The album was praised by The Strad’s reviewer, with this particular track exemplifying the quartet’s ‘readings’ greatest beauty … the intimate emotional trinity they intertwine of dignity, fragility and pain’. Read: In the studio with the Signum Quartet ...
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NewsIndianapolis concertmaster Zach DePue resigns
The orchestra announced the departure of the former Time For Three violinist who became one of the youngest concertmasters when appointed in 2007
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FocusLife lessons: Julian Lloyd Webber
The British cellist and now conservatoire principal talks about the challenges facing music education, and his adventures in finding new repertoire
