All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 406
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GalleryNew violin design to be demonstrated in Lisbon on 11 April
The ‘Santa Cecilia’ violin is being unveiled at the Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Musical Instruments
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NewsCellist whose playing saved her life in Auschwitz awarded German National Prize
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch has been awarded the prize for her decades of campaigning against anti-semitism
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VideoDuet on horn violin
In this video South Korean Violinist Yueun Kim, founding member of the Zaffre String Quartet and student of Midori Goto, tries out her pal’s horn-violin, with pleasing results.
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FocusSentimental work: Antje Weithaas on Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
The Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto presents a mixture of Eastern and Western influences to the German violinist – and only revealed its true secrets after a whole decade of resting
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NewsBarbican Quartet wins International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition
The British ensemble receives €10,000 and a special prize for the best interpretation of a work composed before 1830
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NewsTexas orchestra violinist dies onstage after medical crisis
Yu Zhao Gu was sitting beside his wife when he fell from his seat mid-performance – fundraiser launched to help with medical bills and funeral costs
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Video‘With Nicky’ 8: Recap – Playing Fast
A recap of last week’s video today on Nicola Benedetti’s journey of YouTube tutorials, in which the violinist goes back over one of the most important parts of developing the basics for the left hand: Playing Fast - Velocity Requires Flexibility. See the full series here
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News700 smiling Beethovens to festoon Bonn for 2020 anniversary
The statues, designed by Ottmar Hörl, will be installed in the composer’s birth city this spring
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ReviewMatthew Lipman; Henry Kramer: Bowen, Schumann, Knox, Shostakovich and Waxman
An impressive, lovingly presented recital of viola music
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NewsViolinist Gabriela Peña-Kim selected for LA Phil Resident Fellows Programme
She joins the scheme that prepares musicians from historically underrepresented populations for positions in major orchestras
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Blogs7 tips on starting a quartet – and keeping it going long-term
The Minguet Quartet began playing together as students in 1988, and the original line-up are still going strong 30 years later. Here’s how they do it.
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NewsQueen Elisabeth Competition announces starry jury panel
Midori, Vadim Repin, Jaime Laredo and Arabella Steinbacher among jurors for €25,000 top prize event in Brussels
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ReviewRaphael Wallfisch, John York: Brahms Cello Sonatas
A duo of nearly four decades’ standing celebrates with Brahms
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ArticleLess space, more bass: the Travel Bass
An answer to the logistical hassle of double-bass playing
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VideoBohemian Rhapsody for cello sextet
Amit Peled and the Peabody Cello Gang perform a new arrangement of Bohemian Rhapsody for six cellos. The five young cellists are students in Peled’s studio at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. They are Jiaoyang Xu, Mafalda Santos, Joseph Staten, Ismael Guerrero, and Tzu-Jou Yeh The arrangement, commissioned by ...
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NewsMeet the candidates: Sendai International Music Competition
The Japanese competition offers $27,000 first prize plus a package of concerts and other benefits
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VideoJames Oesi plays the Bourrées from Bach's Cello Suite no.4
In this video South African double bassist James Oesi plays the two Bourrées from Bach’s Cello Suite no.4. The performance was filmed at the Bimhuis Amsterdam in 2016 for ‘Vrije Geluiden’ (Free Sounds), a programme on Dutch public broadcaster VPRO. Oesie play an 1872 instrument by Giuseppe Baldantoni.
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VideoSearching for the True Beethoven
In this video from Bärenreiter publishing house the music editor Jonathan Del Mar gives us an insight into the painstaking process of scrutinising Beethoven’s original scores, and the secrets that lie within. With contributions from pianist Igor Levit, Sir Simon Rattle, the Pierrot Quartett and the Berlin Philharmonic.
