All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 472
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VideoJanine Jansen gives socially-distanced performance of Mendelssohn
The violinist gives a socially-distanced performance of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in Munich’s Philharmonie im Gasteig on 25 September 2020, with the Munich Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev. Watch: Anne-Sophie Mutter gives a socially-distanced Beethoven performance Read: What does it feel like to play in a socially-distanced orchestra?
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FocusThe Strad Calendar 2021: Francesco and Giovanni Grancino viola c.1665
The varnish of the Grancino is most beautiful and wonderfully well preserved
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Blogs10 tips for profitably teaching music lessons online
Business coach Jennifer Rosenfeld shares her top recommendations for ensuring that your online instrumental teaching business is best poised for success - both financially and in terms of student impact
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NewsViolin stolen from Japan found in Italy 15 years later
The instrument, a 1675 Nicolò Amati, was stolen in 2005
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VideoMidori’s famous string-breaking moment
Aged just 14, the violinist broke not one but two E-strings in a performance conducted by Leonard Bernstein
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NewsFilm of Concerto Budapest and Kremerata Baltica wins Golden Lion at Venice TV festival
Among other works, the film featured the Hungarian premiere of Weinberg’s ‘Kaddish’ symphony
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VideoTwoSet Violin react to 2-year-old prodigy
Brett Yang and Eddy Chen of TwoSet Violin guide us through the first two years of a child prodigy’s progress. Read: ’One thing I’m grateful for is the amount of practice I did growing up’ – TwoSet Violin Read: ’It was one of the best moments of my life’ – ...
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BlogsHow I started teaching students in Mozambique over Zoom
Violinist Darragh Morgan shares his experience of teaching students 8000 miles away
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News400 orchestral players take part in musical protest in UK’s Parliament Square
The musicians played 20% of ‘Mars’ from Holst’s The Planets, reflecting the fact that freelancers can only claim 20% of their income
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NewsHungarian cellist Tamás Mérei has died, aged 47
The cellist played with conductors including Lorin Maazel and Christoph Eschenbach over his 20-odd year career
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NewsLondon Philharmonic Orchestra plays in National Gallery in COVID tribute to World War II concerts
Four video concerts, featuring orchestral players performing chamber music selected to match the gallery’s paintings, will be shown from 10 October
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FocusHow has COVID-19 affected the Italian lutherie business?
Violin makers worldwide were hit hard by the Covid-19 outbreak as the customers dried up – nowhere more so than in Italy. Peter Somerford speaks to some of the country’s makers to find out how the industry is gradually getting back on its feet
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VideoWest Wycombe Chamber Music Festival: opening concert
Owing to COVID-19, this year Lawrence Power has turned his West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival into a series of videos, released weekly online. Here is the first full concert, featuring Power alongside Pavel Kolesnikov, Vilde Frang, John Myerscough, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Annabelle Meare, Tim Crawford, Timothy Ridout and Sergio Bucheli. As ...
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FocusWhat is it like to play Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s own violin?
Christoph Koncz, principal second violinist of the Vienna Philharmonic, shares his experience
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NewsCzechs to shut down all cultural venues as COVID cases surge
The two-week closure is one of several measures taken by the Czech government, as coronavirus cases rise to Europe’s fastest rate per capita
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Focus‘I’ve always been fascinated about how the mind works’ – Midori
Toby Deller finds out how the Japanese-American violinist combined a Psychology degree with a busy solo career
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NewsJennifer Pike awarded MBE
The British-Polish violinist has been awarded an MBE for services to classical music
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VideoHenning Kraggerrud plays a Guarneri ‘Del Gesù’
In this music video the Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerrud plays the Guarneri Del Gesù violin from 1744 (the last year of the luthier’s life) – the violin featured in The Strad calendar 2021. Read: Pride of Norway: The Strad calendar 2021
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VideoLPO members play Dvorák at the National Gallery
In the first of their performances matching chamber music with paintings from the National Gallery, members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra bring together Antonín Dvořák’s ‘Terzetto in C major’, Op. 74, 1887, and three paintings that conjure up a sense of place through landscape, locals and traditions; two works are ...
