All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 484
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VideoMusical pictionary with Hilary Hahn
TwoSet Violin pit their pictionary skills against Hilary Hahn Read: TwoSet Violin make a return Read: Brett Yang of TwoSet Violin to take a break Watch: TwoSet Violin present ten types of musicians during quarantine
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NewsBrussels’ Centre for Fine Arts to close after fire
Two firefighters were injured while saving the multi-purpose arts complex
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NewsFree live streamed concert series from New York’s Atterbury House announced
Violinist Lara St John presents the ’Atterbury House Sessions’ - a series of chamber concerts beginning this month and featuring musical colleagues - in celebration of the New York venue’s 150th anniversary
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ArticleTop UK musicians decry new costs of EU performances
Artists from Nicola Benedetti to Ed Sheeran and Simon Rattle to Iron Maiden have joined forces to call for government action
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VideoViolinist Charlie Siem performs for the virtual ‘All About Bach’ festival
Violinist Charlie Siem performs Bach’s Violin Partita no.3 in E major BWV 1006 and the Chaconne from Bach’s Violin Partita no.2 in D minor BWV 1004. The performance opens the virtual ’All about Bach’ Festival, running 8 January to 5 March 2021 - part of Only Stage Management’s free digital ...
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NewsGuarneri ‘filius Andreae’ violin at centre of Holocaust storm
The German foundation holding the instrument has failed to pay €100,000 compensation to the heirs of its former owner
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VideoGrand Teton Music Festival on Location: Houston
This instalment of the Grand Teton Music Festival on Location, recorded at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Houston, Texas, features Mozart’s Flute Quartet No. 1 in D major K.285; Reicha’s Wind Quintet in E flat major, Op.88 No.2; Farkas’s Early Hungarian Dances from the 17th Century; and Brahms’s Piano Quintet ...
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FocusWhat can we learn from CT-scanning the ‘Messiah’?
In 2016 the ‘Messiah’ Stradivari was the subject of an extensive CT scanning project. Francesco Piasentini and Gregg Alf examine the resulting data, discovering repair work in the neck, and attempt to determine how it had originally been set
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FocusWhich cello strings? Steven Isserlis, Alisa Weilerstein and others tell us what their choices are and why
Finding the ideal combination of strings is a process that can take a lifetime. Here, some of the world’s leading cellists – and two up-and-coming chamber musicians on the competition circuit – discuss their choices
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NewsOmobono Stradivari violin loaned for Biden’s inauguration ceremony
The violin, valued at just under $4 million, was played by the Irish violinist Patricia Treacy
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FocusHow I went about relearning to play the violin with two fingers
Despite losing the function of the third and fourth fingers of his left hand through focal dystonia and a shoulder injury, violinist Clayton Haslop was determined to continue playing. Here he shares his story
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NewsQuatuor Ébène establishes new string quartet class in Munich
The Ébène Quartet Academy will teach string quartet playing to a new generation of students
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VideoFilipe Quaresma plays Ligeti’s Cello Concerto
This video features the Ligeti Cello Concerto played by cellist Filipe Quaresma and the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra conducted by Pedro Carneiro at the Suggia Hall of Casa da Música Porto (Portugal). Watch: Rohan de Saram plays Xenakis
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VideoViolinist Itzhak Perlman performs Perpetuum Mobile by Franz Ries
Violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Rohan De Silva perform Franz Ries’s Perpetuum Mobile, op.34 no.5 at a state dinner in 2007. In the audience are Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, alongside then US President George W. Bush. Read: Never practise for more than five hours per ...
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ArticleYuri Bashmet: TikTok star?
The Russian violist considers how to tempt audiences back to the concert hall
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NewsBerlin survey paints worrying picture for freelance musicians
Almost a third of respondents see no light at the end of the tunnel regarding the Covid-19 pandemic
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NewsMusicians criticise easyJet’s changed policy on instruments
Violins and violas among those to be barred as hand luggage from 10 February onwards
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FocusJascha Heifetz the 16-year-old prankster
Jascha Heifetz’s US debut at Carnegie Hall in October 1917 sealed the 16-year-old’s reputation as an astonishing and unruffled performer - but for all his musical maturity, Heifetz was still just a teenager, as Dario Sarlo reveals
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ArticleWigmore chief counts costs of live streaming
A high-profile series of live-streamed concerts has been a good – but expensive – way to reach audiences, says Wigmore Hall artistic director John Gilhooly
