All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 466
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NewsJan Vogler to launch new streaming platform DREAMSTAGE
DREAMSTAGE aims to help artists who have lost performing opportunities due to COVID-19
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NewsTwo Moors Festival to take place with social distancing this autumn
The festival will take place over two weekends on Dartmoor and Exmoor
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NewsClemency Burton-Hill recovering from brain haemorrhage
The BBC Radio 3 presenter, novelist and amateur violinist has said that music gave her hope for her recovery
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NewsFilmed Brecon Baroque festival to be aired in October
The festival will include several ticketed concerts and talks
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VideoPatricia Kopatchinskaja plays Beethoven at Gstaad Menuhin Festival
The Moldovan-born violinist gave this recital with pianist Joonas Ahonen at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy on August 15th. The programme included Webern’s 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7; Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’; and John Cage’s Nocturne. Read: ...
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VideoJanine Jansen performs Debussy’s Violin Sonata in G minor
Dutch violinist Janine Jansen and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet perform Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor at Carnegie Hall, New York. Watch: Janine Jansen rehearses Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Orchestre de Paris Watch: Violinist Janine Jansen performs Brahms aged 13
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NewsRaphaël Merlin to take up teaching post in Munich
The Ébène Quartet cellist has been appointed to the strings faculty at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
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NewsFormer queen appears alongside youth orchestra at reopened Concertgebouw
The European Union Youth Orchestra was joined by the ex-monarch after their concert in Amsterdam
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ArticleStudents should practise Bach’s Cello Suites with Schumann’s piano accompaniments - Leon Bosch
The virtuoso bassist and Trinity Laban Conservatoire professor explains how he introduces the works to his students
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NewsGCSE results day shows continual decline in music entries
There has been a steady decline in music entries at GCSE level in the UK for a decade
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NewsLondon Mozart Players launches online recitals for most vulnerable
Among the target audience are those living in care homes, those living with dementia or at home with carers
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NewsJulian Lloyd Webber to step down as principal of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
The cellist will retain links with the institution as emeritus professor, a role awarded to him in recognition of his leadership throughout the past five years
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VideoA comparison: Itzhak Perlman plays Mendelssohn in 1983 and 2011
In this video, which cuts between live performances filmed in 1983 and 2011, violinist Itzhak Perlman plays Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor with the New York Philharmonic under David Zinman (1983) and the San Francisco Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas (2011). Watch: Juilliard students ‘do’ Bolero with guests including ...
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NewsBenedetti Foundation announces plans for September
Plans include the Foundation’s first virtual chamber music weekend
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NewsCellist Amit Peled launches online cello academy sessions
‘The First Hour’ guides cellists through the first hour of a daily practice regimen
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NewsCadogan Hall to resume indoor live performances with audience
Live indoor performances with socially distanced audiences will take place at the Hall from Wednesday 30 September
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VideoLockdown conversation with Leon Bosch
Wigmore Hall presents a special documentary featuring double bassist Leon Bosch, whose early anti-apartheid activism saw him jailed as a teenager in South Africa. Read: Leon Bosch awarded honorary Fellowship of RNCM Watch: Leon Bosch: clear and resonant harmonics on the double bass
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FocusA video-gaming approach to practice will maximise your technical efficiency
How to use a competitive video gaming approach to plan out your practice, maximise your technical efficiency and play consistently accurately on stage
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VideoAnne-Sophie Mutter plays Hoe-down
Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist Lambert Orkis play the Hoe-down from Copland’s Ballet ’Rodeo’ (1943). Read: Anne-Sophie Mutter on fine and contemporary instruments Read: Sentimental Work: Anne-Sophie Mutter on Penderecki’s Metamorphosen Read: Anne-Sophie Mutter has tested positive for coronavirus
