All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 479
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Blogs100 years of The Lark Ascending
Vaughan Williams’ much-loved work speaks with directness to everyone - musician or otherwise - writes Chris Hopkins, principal conductor of the English Sinfonia
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VideoNew Jacqueline du Pré opera set to tour
’We’ll Never Let You Down’ brings together music by three Dutch composers
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NewsUpdated guidance for musicians and music teachers in England
The latest advice from the Incorporated Society of Musicians on the first day of the new three-tier system
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NewsMusicians say they were dropped by Strictly after asking to be paid
According to band members, they were offered a ‘free lunch’ but no payment for appearing on the BBC programme’s spinoff show It Takes Two
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NewsEasyjet to charge extra for using overhead luggage lockers
The changes will be effective from 10 February
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Focus‘For me this recording is almost like an exorcism’ – Amandine Beyer on playing the music of C.P.E Bach
For Amandine Beyer and her Gli Incogniti period ensemble, the string symphonies of C.P.E. Bach represented an opportunity to record difficult but exhilarating repertoire. Charlotte Gardner recalls attending the 2019 sessions, as the album nears its release following Covid-19 delays
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NewsWigmore Hall to reopen to the public
Among the performers at the London venue in the lead up to Christmas are the Doric String Quartet and violinist Jack Liebeck
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VideoHilary Hahn plays the Sibelius Violin Concerto with no accompaniment
In this video, part of the series ‘Hahn Solo’, in which Hilary Hahn performs the solo violin part of some of her favourite concertos with no piano or orchestral accompaniment, the violinist plays Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. She hopes that, by hearing the parts separately, the audience will pick up on ...
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FocusHow did Yehudi Menuhin’s interpretations evolve over his lifetime?
The development of the great violinists from fresh young artists to profound musical thinkers can be charted through their recorded interpretations. Nathaniel Vallois uses his time in lockdown to examine changes in the playing style of some of the best-known names
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VideoYehudi Menuhin getting married
In this brief video, we can see footage from Yehudi Menuhin’s wedding to his first wife Nola Nicholas. The wedding took place at Caxton Hall in 1938, when Menuhin was 21 years old. Read: How did Yehudi Menuhin’s interpretations evolve over his lifetime?
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NewsViolinist Mary Louise Nanna has died
Nanna had played with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra for 54 years
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VideoSara Zeneli plays ‘il Cremonese’ Stradivari at the Museo del Violino
In this video the violinist Sara Zeneli plays Monti’s Csárdás on the 1715 A.Stradivari ‘il Cremonese’ in the Chamber Hall of the Museo del Violino in Cremona. Read: Innovative solutions: Postcard from Cremona Read: 1734 Stradivari violin ‘Willemotte’: Late… but worth the wait
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NewsISM report highlights devastating impact of COVID-19 on music education
The report reveals that almost 10% of primary and secondary schools are not teaching classroom music at all
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NewsLondon Symphony Orchestra to return to Barbican Hall
The programme consists of two performances of the same repertoire on every concert day
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VideoConcert Artists Guild winners cover Winter Wonderland
This arrangement of Winter Wonderland by Brandon Ilaw features the winners of the Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh competition. The performers include Geneva Lewis (violin/vocals), Ariel Horowitz (violin), Gabriel Martins (cello), Britton-René Collins (percussion), Ken Kubota (cello), Mitch Lyon (cello) and Brandon Ilaw (percussion/vocals). Read: Cellist and violinist win 2020 ...
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NewsSolem Quartet launches new socially-distanced concert series
Beethoven Bartók Now will be launching in Camberwell on 17 December
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NewsEos Quartet wins 2020 Orpheus Chamber Music Competition
The Italian foursome receives the CHF5,000 first prize at the Zurich competition
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NewsPay cuts planned for New York Philharmonic musicians and Metropolitan Opera workers
Both organisations have reported substantial losses following the cancellation of their entire 2020-21 seasons due to Covid-19
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NewsViolinist Hande Kueden joins Berlin Philharmonic
Born in Turkey, Kueden was previously deputy concertmaster of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
