All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 409
-
BlogsAbsolute Bird: music inspired by birdsong
Violinist Alexandra Wood, Creative Director of City of London Sinfonia, introduces their Absolute Bird series in conjunction with the RSPB – a life-affirming project on and off the stage of the Southbank and Southwark Cathedral
-
NewsHome visit for Cremonese instruments from US National Music Museum
The Museo del Violino prepares to welcome instruments by Stradivari, the Amatis and others from collection housed in Vermillion, South Dakota
-
FocusMusical emissaries: The Shanghai Quartet
The players of the pioneering ensemble, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary, speak to Charlotte Smith about forming at a time when Western chamber music was barely understood in their native China
-
NewsJapan's new viola playing emperor
Emperor Naruhito, who began his reign on 1 May this year following his father’s abdication, is a keen amateur musician
-
FocusResonanzio resonance podium for double bass
Turning everyday practicality to musicians’ acoustic advantage
-
Video‘With Nicky’ 10: Inspiration
This week in her video series, Nicola Benedetti is taking a step back from practice to look at what can inspire us to channel more feeling, energy and commitment into our playing
-
VideoJungle Book Variations for solo viola
Max Baillie performs his own variations on the song ‘My Own Home’ from the Disney Jungle Book, ‘inspired by Paganini, Ysaÿe, Bach, and with a bit of bagpipe folkiness to pay homage to my Scots roots’.
-
ReviewDiotima Quartet: Bartók complete string quartets
An outstanding new set of Bartók’s complete quartets
-
ArticleGallery: A violin made out of shredded money
‘The Value of a Violin’ is on exhibition at the Design Museum Ghent during the Queen Elisabeth competition
-
VideoHilary Hahn gives masterclass on her new album
On 17th May, Hilary Hahn releases her new album: 6 partitas specially written for the violinist by the Spanish composer Antón García Abril. And for each piece on the new album Hahn has prepared a masterclass video for players and listeners alike, to share insider knowledge on interpreting, expressing, and ...
-
-
VideoRastrelli Cello Quartet plays Juliet as a Young Girl
In this video the Rastrelli Cello Quartet plays ‘Juliet as a Young Girl’ from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet in an arrangement by Sergio Drabkin
-
NewsQueen Elisabeth Competition 2019 announces semi-finalists
24 candidates will take part in the semi-final stage of the Brussels-based competition
-
News11-year-old cellist wins Tallinn Young Musician Competition 2019
Damodar Das Castillo also received a diploma for eminent style, as well as one for the best performance of a virtuoso piece.
-
VideoCello masterclass from Johannes Moser
As part of his residency with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, last week Johannes Moser gave three local cellists a masterclass on Elgar’s Cello Concerto, Gulda’s Cello Concerto and Squire’s ‘Tzig-Tzig’.
-
NewsViolinist, violist and string quartet selected as New Generation Artists
Johan Dalene, Timothy Ridout and the Consone Quartet are among the scheme’s 2019 intake
-
Focus5 views on Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
Five violinists share their insights into this pillar of the repertoire in these snippets of interviews featured in The Strad
-
ReviewTabea Zimmermann; Stéphane Degout: Berlioz
Meditative and majestic forays into Berlioz’s Byronic world
-
VideoAlbert Bisaso Ssempeke plays the Ugandan endingidi
Albert Bisaso Ssempeke, a royal court musician of the Kingdom of Buganda, performing a traditional Baganda wedding song on the endingidi
-
NewsPaganini's favourite violin heads to the Midwest
The famous ‘Il Cannone’ Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ will be spending a week on display in Columbus, Ohio, for its first visit to the US in 15 years
