All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 46
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ArticleWoodbox Beats & Balladry
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Daniel Bernard Roumain (violin)Composer: Various Haitian–American composer–violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) uses four-, five- and six-string violins as part of his innovative, electro-fuelled sound world. The album opens with turntabling and a sassy beat, progressing stylistically through break-beats, acoustic ballads ...
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ArticleBurgon: Viola Concerto ‘Ghosts of the Dance’, Cello Concerto, Merciless Beauty
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Philip Dukes (viola) Josephine Knight (cello) Sarah Connolly (mezzo) City of London Sinfonia/Rumon GambaComposer: BurgonThanks to Geoffrey Burgon’s highly successfully career in film and television soundtracks, his concert music sits comfortably among those composers working in a modern tonality. Both concertos are ...
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ArticleSabrina-Vivian Höpcker (violin) Northwest German Philharmonic/Edwin Outwater, Göttingen Symphony Orchestra/Martin Brauß
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Bruch: Scottish Fantasy op.64. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor op.64Composer: Bruch, MendelssohnAlthough Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker has established a place for herself among today’s gifted young German violinists, I cannot understand why at this early stage in her career she has brought this ...
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ArticleQSF Plays Brubeck
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Quartet San FranciscoComposer: Brubeck This is hugely enjoyable. With his sophisticated, classically trained approach and unusual time signatures, Dave Brubeck translates well to a string quartet. You lose a lot of instrumental contrast, of course, but the losses are mostly ...
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ArticleCello Quartet – original works by Matz, Laboccetta, Golterman, Paque, Corrette, Grützmacher, Fitzenhagen, Wagenseil, Pahissa, Morera, Huguet & Casals
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Tritton Cello Ensemble Composer: Matz, Laboccetta, Golterman, Paque, Corrette, Grützmacher, Fitzenhagen, Wagenseil, Pahissa, Morera, Huguet & CasalsIt’s a pity that the Tritton Cello Ensemble, which boasts three Stradivari and one Gagliano, has largely restricted itself to original quartet works for this disc, ...
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ArticleCorigliano: Violin Concerto ‘The Red Violin’, Phantasmagoria – Suite from ‘The Ghosts of Versailles’
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Michael Ludwig (violin) Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra/JoAnn FallettaComposer: Corigliano This disc plunges you with carefree abandon into the highly coloured and expressive world of Corigliano. After the expertly performed suite from the composer’s opera The Ghosts of Versailles comes the ...
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ArticleSainsbury: Violin Concerto haydn. Wood: Violin Concerto*
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Lorraine McAslan (violin) BBC Concert Orchestra/Barry Wordsworth, Gavin Sutherland*Composer: Sainsbury, Wood Following on from her outstanding account of York Bowen’s Violin Concerto for Dutton with the late, much-missed Vernon Handley, Lorraine McAslan once again proves a highly persuasive ...
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Violinist Nick Eanet to leave Juilliard Quartet
The Juilliard Quartet's first violinist Nick Eanet is to leave the group because of health problems. Eanet, who made his debut with the quartet last September, is suffering from an acute but not life-threatening digestive ailment that makes extended touring too difficult. He will remain with the group next season ...
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Order of Canada for violinist James Ehnes
Violinist James Ehnes has been named a Member of the Order of Canada. The honour is given to recognise outstanding achievement and service to the nation. Ehnes, who was born in Brandon, Manitoba, in 1976, now lives in Bradenton, Florida. His previous Canadian awards include the 1997 Virginia Parker Prize ...
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Database of 115 years of BBC Proms performances goes online
The BBC Proms has launched an online archive of every performance in its 115-year history. The database features 7,168 concerts and users can search by composer, work, soloist, conductor, ensemble or date. The archive can be accessed at bbc.co.uk/proms/archive
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Restorer is robbed of two violins in central London
The thief who stole a double violin case in London's Carnaby Street last week might have had a shock when they examined their haul. Inside were two violins but both were being restored: one was in three pieces (with noticeable woodworm damage to the back), and the other was just ...
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US violinist Marié Rossano triumphs in Salt Lake City junior contest
American Marié Rossano has won the top prize at the Stradivarius International Violin Competition. The contest, for players aged 11 to 17, took place in Salt Lake City, Utah. Sixteen-year-old Rossano, who studies with Simon James and Brian Lewis, received $7,500 for her first prize. Andi Zhang of China won ...
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Finzi Quartet to play on matched set of Vuillaume instruments
The Finzi Quartet will be able to use the 'Evangelists', a matched set of Vuillaume instruments, for two years after winning a competition at the Wigmore Hall. The instruments are owned by the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation, and were previously loaned to the Modigliani Quartet. Vuillaume made the set in ...
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1620 Maggini violin joins Peabody Institute collection
The Peabody Institute at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University has added another violin to its instrument collection. A 1620 Maggini violin has been donated by Karl Kostoff, a former orchestral musician and a longtime employee of the university's Applied Physics Laboratory. Kostoff, 85, bought the instrument 40 years ago for $9,000. ...
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Korean violinist Jinjoo Cho wins in Buenos Aires contest
Jinjoo Cho has won the first prize at the inaugural Buenos Aires International Violin Competition. The 22-year-old from South Korea, who studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Paul Kantor, took home $15,000. Second place went to Nigel Armstrong from the US. Hyuk Joo Kwun from South Korea won ...
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BlogsTop violin teaching secret revealed
Editor Ariane Todes learns of a simple idea that offers a powerful teaching tool
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BlogsRunning violinists and dashing cellists
David Kettle goes in pursuit of masked string players at the opera
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Extreme cellists hike across Britain on 192-mile trek
Three cellists are hiking from the east coast of Britain to the west coast to raise money for charity. Clare Wallace, James Rees and Jeremy Dawson, who have been performing as the 'Extreme Cellists' since 2003, are carrying their cellos on the 192-mile route from St Bees in Cumbria to ...
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London Symphony Orchestra nets top violinists for 2010-11 season
The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) seems to be taking over where this summer's BBC Proms leaves off when it comes to violin-heavy seasons. Proms artists James Ehnes, Julia Fischer and Leonidas Kavakos will be among the 14 violinists performing concertos with the LSO during 2010 and 2011. The orchestra ...
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ArticleBrahms: Cello Sonatas no.1 in E minor op.38 & no.2 in F major op.99, Violin Sonata no.1 in G major (arr. Klengel)
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Torleif Thedéen (cello) Roland Pöntinen (piano)Composer: Brahms Ten years on from recording their Schumann and Chopin disc, Swedish partnership Torleif Thedéen and Roland Pöntinen at last give us some Brahms. This is repertoire ideally suited to the pair. ...
