All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 392
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ReviewChiaroscuro Quartet: Schubert String Quartets, no.14 ‘Death and the Maiden’, no.9 in G minor
Light and shade abound in performances of brisk, fierce beauty
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VideoEvan Price plays Django Reinhardt
Improvisation no.2 by jazz guitar legend Django Reinhardt is here arranged for solo violin and performed by Evan Price. ‘The bow technique is of uncertain origin but was made famous by hot jazz violin great, Joe Venuti,’ writes Price. This performance appears on Price’s 2017 album ‘Dialogues’. Audio recording: ...
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VideoRay Chen: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
The violinist performs a seasonal favourite. Produced by Daniel Jang
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NewsBritish violinist is appointed in Hannover
Catherine Myerscough’s tenure was confirmed after an eight-month probationary period
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VideoHilary Hahn does the Ling Ling Workout
First she played Paganini while hoola-hooping. Now Hilary Hahn has accepted an even meaner TwoSet Violin challenge, which, amongst other things, involves playing Sibelius’s Violin Concerto with the A string tuned down a semitone.
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FocusAlisa Weilerstein's top 5 tips on maintaining a natural stage presence
The American cellist talks about physical gesture, articulation and the value of taking things slowly
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FocusHair’s breadth: postcard from the Shanghai Isaac Stern Violin Competition
In its second edition, the $100,000 competition was decided by a tiny margin, and showcased many impressive performances along the way. Strad editor Charlotte Smith attended the finals
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VideoGary Karr performs Andrés Martín's 'The Heart Knows No Borders'
Double bass soloist Gary Karr performs a work by composer Andrés Martín with the Baja California Orchestra and the Bass Orchestra of the XIII Encuentro Latinoamericano de Contrabajos. The composer conducts the performance which took place on 30 November at the Centro Cultural Tijuana in Mexico.
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NewsWinner of MacArthur prize ditches LA Phil seat to focus on activism
Vijay Gupta is devoting himself to developing his nonprofit Street Symphony, which he founded in 2011
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ReviewPhilip Dukes; Anna Tilbrook; James Gilchrist: Vaughan Williams
Dukes matches his sound world exactly to Vaughan Williams’s string music
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FocusSteven Isserlis: What we can learn from the great players of the past
In his guest editorial for the Strad’s October 2013 issue, the cellist introduced a focus on what 21st-century artists can learn from some of the greatest players of the previous century
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NewsMichigan violin professor announces retirement amid allegations
Stephen Shipps was named in an article in The Michigan Daily alleging instances of sexual misconduct spanning nearly 40 years
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FocusBlank canvas: unvarnished 5-string instruments
These unvarnished five-string violins and violas are built by a Chinese maker using flamed maple and seasoned spruce. They feature extra-wide necks, extended pegboxes and adjusted bass-bars, and most have one-piece backs. Both designs are based on Stradivari models and include ebony fingerboards, nuts and saddles. While ...
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VideoChristian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt suffer double pageturning calamity
In this 2015 recital at the Sendesaal Bremen by violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt, sheet music starts to fly. The pageturner who saves the day is violinist Anna Reszniak
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NewsSteven Isserlis celebrates 60th birthday with concert and three awards
The concert featured a group of Isserlis’s closest musical friends including Joshua Bell
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ReviewRoger Reynolds: Aspiration
Irvine Arditti (violin), Paul Hembree (computer musician), Inauthentica/Mark Menzies
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NewsViolin taken in London burglary turns up a year later in Paris
The instrument, by British luthier Chris Johnson, was stolen from a Hampstead flat in December 2017
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FocusHow do you notate the music of aural tradition?
In this article from our December issue Violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen and cellist Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin from the Danish Quartet speak to Andrew Mellor about the difficulties of notating music passed down by aural tradition
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NewsThe Strad January 2019 issue is out now
Isabelle Faust on decoding Mozart’s musical language in her new violin sonatas album
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Focus5 singing string players
We profile some of the multi-talented string players who manage to sing while playing their instrument
