All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 455
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NewsRoyal Opera House to stream The Cellist online
The ballet will be made available on YouTube from Friday 29 May
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NewsVienna Philharmonic to begin performing for live audiences again from June
The orchestra’s Musikverein concert venue will open its doors to audiences on the basis of a number of social distancing regulations
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ArticleCellist Alisa Weilerstein on working with conductors
The American musician discusses performing concertos with conductors and how she navigates interpretative disagreements
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NewsBBC Proms announces alternative plans for summer 2020
The BBC Proms announces this summer’s festival will go ahead, but not as we know it
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NewsVerão Classico Festival and Academy in Lisbon to go ahead this summer
The team behind the Verao Classico Festival and Academy in Lisbon has announced that its 6th edition will go ahead as planned from 26 July to 4 August
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VideoHauser - one half of 2Cellos - debuts New Music Video for His Rendition of Handel’s ‘Lascia Ch’io Pianga’
Hauser’s new music video - filmed inside Budapest’s Museum of Fine Arts - for his version of George Frideric Handel’s ‘Lascia Ch’io Pianga’ from his debut solo album Classic. Of the track, Hauser says, ‘This is one of my favourite opera arias. Handel composed it for a tenor but ...
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NewsAcademy of St Martin in the Fields to broadcast monthly archive concerts for free
Beginning on 28 June, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields is to broadcast concerts once a month
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NewsBarbican announces rescheduled concerts for 2021
Concerts that were due to take place at the Centre between March and July 2020 have been rescheduled for 2021
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NewsHamburg’s Elbphilharmonie plans to reopen in September 2020
The Hamburg-based Elbphilharmonie is planning to reopen in September, with tickets sold on the basis of ’Book now, pay later’
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VideoWorking from home: Thomas Gould gives a fundraising concert
As part of a fundraiser for The Felix Project, which is supplying food throughout the COVID-19 crisis to groups including the homeless and NHS staff, the British violinist Thomas Gould performed a programme live with repertoire including: Bach’s Toccata and Fugue for Organ (transcr for violin), Telemann’s Fantasia No. 1, ...
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VideoViviane Hagner plays Bach in an empty Konzerthaus Berlin
In compliance with social distancing regulations, the German violinist Viviane Hagner plays Bach’s Violin Sonata No 1 in G minor in the empty Great Hall of the Konzerthaus Berlin.
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NewsCellist André Emelianoff, chamber musician and Juilliard teacher, has died
The American cellist has died at the age of 78
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FocusSarasate’s thoughts on New York
During a two-year concert tour of America, violinist Pablo Sarasate corresponded with his adoptive mother Amélie de Lassabathie in Paris. His surviving letters have been translated for the first time into English by Nicholas Sackman and Bastien Terraz, who present a digest of their contents
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VideoLondon City Orchestra plays Mahler - from separate homes
This is the start of the third movement of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, which the London-based orchestra was due to play at St John’s Waterloo on 4th April.
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NewsViolinist Coco Tomita wins string category finals of BBC Young Musician 2020
The 17-year-old violinist played music by Ysaÿe, Debussy/Heifetz and Hubay in the category finals, recorded in December
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NewsLawrence Power commissions new music to perform in empty venues
The violist has commissioned ten composers to write pieces for him to premiere in and on top of empty venues
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VideoVirtual Benedetti Sessions: Grand Finale
Three weeks of music-making come to a culmination in this concert from Sunday 31 May, which showcases all the participants of the Virtual Benedetti Sessions. Programme 4:32 Warlock: Capriol Suite Movement 6, ‘Mattachins’ 12:51 Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence, 4th movement 23:06 Paganini: Caprice No. 24 played by 12 masters of ...
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NewsTurkish viola player Ruşen Güneş has died
The 80-year-old, who lived in London, was a keen promoter of music from his homeland
