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ArticleStrewn With Ribbons
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Lauren MacColl (fiddle) Chris Stout (viola) Su-a Lee (cello) Barry Reid (guitar) Mhairi Hall (piano) Composer: VariousInstrumentalist of the year at the 2009 Scots Trad Music Awards, Lauren MacColl has turned out a?remarkably assured second album. The title comes from a prophecy ...
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Afiara Quartet receives Young Canadian Musicians Award
The Afiara Quartet has won this year's Young Canadian Musicians Award, worth $25,000. The all-Canadian group, which was formed in 2006, is the graduate resident string quartet at the Juilliard School. In 2008 the Afiara won second prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich and first prize in ...
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Schermerhorn Symphony Center out of action after basement floods
The Schermerhorn Symphony Center was one of the Nashville landmarks affected by heavy floods that hit the city and surrounding areas last weekend. The building, which is home to the Nashville Symphony, has been closed for repairs after its basement level was completely flooded. The orchestra is working to find ...
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King Henry IV' Brothers Amati to join violins at National Music Museum
A Brothers Amati violin made in 1595 for the king of France is to go on display at the National Music Museum in Vermillion, South Dakota. The violin is decorated with the coat of arms of King Henry IV, ruler of France and Navarre, who was assassinated 400 years ago ...
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Luthiers from Germany and Italy win at Beijing violin making competition
Two of the three top awards at the first China International Violin Making Competition have gone to makers based in Europe. Ulrich Hinsberger from Biberach, Germany, won first prize in the violin category. South Korean-born Min-Sung Kim, who works in Cremona, took the top award in the cello category. The ...
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Dudamel pulls muscle during performance of Dvorák Cello Concerto
Los Angeles Philharmonic maestro Gustavo Dudamel pulled a muscle in his neck while conducting the orchestra and Alisa Weilerstein in a performance of Dvo?ák's Cello Concerto. The orchestra's associate conductor Lionel Bringuier had to step in for the second half of the concert last Thursday, but Dudamel was back on ...
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Volans and Saariaho string works win RPS Music Awards
Composers Kevin Volans and Kaija Saariaho were among the winners of the UK's Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards. Volans, who was born in South Africa, won the chamber-scale composition award for his piece viola:piano. Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho's Notes on Light, for cello and orchestra, won the large-scale composition category. ...
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Violinist Jack Liebeck named young British classical performer of the year
London-born violinist Jack Liebeck won the award for best young British classical performer at the Classical BRITs. Liebeck's first CD for Sony Classical - a recording of Dvorak's Violin Concerto, Violin Sonata and Sonatina - was released last year.
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Violin artwork pushes boundaries of taste and smell
An Ethiopian artist whose works explore themes of death and decay has put a violin at the centre of his latest installation. Mack Eshete's The Shepherd with the Violin is being exhibited at the Goethe-Institut in Addis Ababa, and features a figure with a violin surrounded by skinned sheep. According ...
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Violinist and pedagogue Eric Rosenblith dies
Violinist and teacher Eric Rosenblith has died at the age of 90. Formerly the head of strings at Boston's New England Conservatory, he had most recently taught at the Longy School. Born in Vienna, Rosenblith studied with Jacques Thibaud in Paris and Carl Flesch in London. After fleeing Paris ...
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Cellist Martin Lovett to receive lifetime achievement award from London Cello Society
Cellist Martin Lovett will receive a lifetime achievement award at the Royal Academy of Music on 10 October. The presentation is part of a day of concerts and workshops organised by the London Cello Society. The evening concert honouring Lovett features Guy Johnston and the Sacconi Quartet in a programme ...
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RPS and BBC Radio 3 launch hunt for unjustly neglected British music
The UK's Royal Philharmonic Society is searching for British chamber music pieces that deserve a second hearing. Its new Encore project will select twelve works to be performed and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2011 and 2012. The pieces must have been written by a living British composer, have ...
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European violin makers dominate prize board at Mittenwald competition
The winners of the sixth Mittenwald International Violin Making Competition have been announced. The leading maker in the violin category was Haiko Seifert from Germany, although no first prize was awarded, so he took second place. The viola first place went to French maker Philippe Mahu. Peter Goodfellow from the ...
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ArticleBach: Sonatas and Partitas BWV1004–06
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Isabelle Faust (violin) Composer: BachThere is only one thing wrong with this beautiful CD, which is that half of Bach’s solo Sonatas and Partitas are missing. It is a situation that will surely be soon rectified with a second recording, ...
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ArticleCatoire: Violin Sonata no.1 op.15, Poème op.20 (Sonata no.2), Elégie op.26, Romanze op.1 no.4
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Laurent Albrecht Breuninger (violin) Anna Zassimova (piano)Composer: CatoireGeorgy Catoire was Russia’s answer to the young Gabriel Fauré – a composer of exquisite taste rarely given to wearing his heart on his sleeve, yet whose work possesses a tenderness and rapture that continually ...
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ArticleBrahms: Violin Sonatas no.1–3
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) Lambert Orkis (piano)Composer: BrahmsIn the CD booklet Anne-Sophie Mutter dates her love of Brahms’s violin sonatas back to a performance she heard of them given by David Oistrakh when she was five. She has waited until now to record ...
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ArticleYsaÿe: Trio for two violins and viola*, String Trios nos 1 & 2†
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Tor Johan Bøen*† , Anders Nilsson* (violin) Are Sandbakken*, Juliet Jopling† (viola) Johannes Martens† (cello)Composer: YsaÿeIt has taken several years of research into manuscripts and sketches to arrive at the performing versions of Eugène Ysaÿe’s string trios used in these ...
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ArticleFauré: Violin sonatas no.1 in A major op.13 & no.2 in E minor op.108, Berceuse, Romance, Andante
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Olivier Thouin (violin) François Zeitouni (piano)Composer: FauréCanadian-born virtuoso Olivier Thouin, currently associate concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, possesses the ideal sound for Fauré’s endlessly supple, elegant writing. Even compared to such distinguished rivals in these timeless scores as Augustin ...
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ArticlePaganini: Caprices op.1 (arr. Zinn)
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Wihan QuartetComposer: PaganiniWilliam Zinn’s arrangements transform Paganini’s solo violin caprices into string quartets with fascinating, yet questionable outcomes; for Zinn has freely added his own material, whether as introductory bars (for no.24), harmonic, registral or articulation changes, ornamental elaborations, or harmonic and ...
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ArticleBach: Sonata no.1 in G minor BWV1001, Partita no.3 in E major BWV1006. Ysaÿe: Sonatas no.1 in G minor op.27 no.1 & no.2 in A minor op.27 no.2
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Liza Ferschtman (violin)Composer: Bach, YsaÿeThe programming of this disc is impeccable. Ysaÿe’s solo sonatas are consciously first cousins to Bach’s sonatas and partitas, and in these particular works, with G minor Ysaÿe drawing from Bach in the same key, and ...
