All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 468
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NewsAcademy of St Martin in the Fields presents a series of autumn concerts with live audience
re:connect, an eight-concert series, begins on 12 September
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NewsCzech Philharmonic launches 125th season to capacity audiences
The season will launch on 23 September with a programme of Shostakovich and Mahler
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NewsIstanbul Music Festival to launch digitally
The festival will run between 18 September and 5 October 2020
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Article‘Young players today should be realistic about making a career’ - violinist Pinchas Zukerman
The violinist reflects on the prospects and attitudes of young musicians, as he remembers Isaac Stern in his 100th anniversary year
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ArticleMajor US agency goes bust
As Covid-19 prevents artists from making money, those who represent them are feeling the pinch too
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NewsAriana Nelson to join Carpe Diem Quartet
The cellist succeeds Greg Sauer, who has left after eleven years with the group
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NewsRule, Britannia! will now be sung at BBC Proms 2020
The UK music festival has reversed its decision to perform orchestral arrangements of Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory following heated criticism
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NewsRinat Ibragimov, the LSO’s Principal Emeritus Double Bass, has died
The double bassist was 60 years old
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NewsLondon Philharmonic Orchestra returns to Royal Festival Hall this autumn
The ensemble’s Autumn season will consist of 13 streamed concerts
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NewsDaniel Müller-Schott and Anne-Sophie Mutter receive Opus Klassik 2020 solo recording award
The award ceremony will take place on 17 October
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NewsObituary: double bassist Erich Hartmann
The oldest surviving member of the Berlin Philharmonic died, aged 100, in July
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VideoRooftop performance from The Weeklies
The Weeklies (a trio formed during the pandemic comprising guitarist Jordan Dodson, double bassist Louis Levitt and violinist Jonathan Miron) perform one of their new songs - “You and your sister” - as part of a rooftop streaming series in New York City. The concert was presented by ‘Arts ...
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FocusThe secrets of Giuseppe Ceruti’s making style
The Cremonese luthier Giuseppe Ceruti is often overlooked in favour of his more famous son, Enrico. Duane Rosengard examines two matching double basses by Giuseppe to discover the secrets of his making style
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Focus‘That pre-performance adrenaline rush made me feel alive again’ – Guy Johnston
Ahead of his streamed chamber music festival at Hatfield House, the British cellist shares his experience of performing for online broadcast during the lockdown
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VideoLockdown commissions 4: Lawrence Power plays Cassandra Miller’s ‘Daylonging, Slacktide’
In the fourth of his ten ‘lockdown commissions’ performances, filmed in and on top of iconic empty venues, violist Lawrence Power plays Cassandra Miller’s ’Daylonging, Slacktide’, filmed in and around Snape Maltings. This is what Miller says about the piece: ‘In March 2020, I found myself at Snape Maltings ...
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NewsMelbourne cellist wins Freedman Classical Fellowship during lockdown
Richard Narroway receives the $20,000 award, enabling him to set up a post-COVID national performance tour
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VideoPizzicato Polka at 2020 Proms
In this video the BBC Concert Ochestra under Bramwell Tovey played Johann Strauss’s Pizzicato Polka as part of a Viennese Night at the BBC Proms on 31 August 2020. Watch: Beethovenia: all nine symphonies reimagined Read: Rule, Britannia! will now be sung at BBC Proms 2020
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NewsEx-Shanghai Quartet violinist sues former colleagues for unfair dismissal
Yi-Wen Jiang is suing the Shanghai Quartet and Montclair State University, where the quartet is resident, following a comment on social media earlier this year
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NewsLive music and audience to return to the Barbican
Among the performers are the London Symphony Orchestra and the Kanneh-Mason family
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VideoCBSO gives a centenary concert
On 5 September 1920, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra gave its very first concert. 100 years later (to the very hour), the CBSO celebrated its 100th birthday with an online celebration. Simon Rattle conducted, CBSO’s conductors past and present give interviews and there was a guest appearance from Sheku ...
