All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 487
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VideoMusical Postcard: Lunar New Year
A musical postcard from violist Hsin-Yun Huang to celebrate Chinese New Year. Music: Bloch Suite 1919 Dancer: Su-Chen Cuff Viola: Hsin-Yun Huang Piano: Lucas Amory Read: Why we should all be violists
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Focus3 questions for Liu Ming - new concertmaster of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
At just 25-years-old, Liu Ming is the orchestra’s second youngest concertmaster in its 141 year history. Here she shares a tip for being a good orchestral leader, and describes how the pandemic affected her approach to the role
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NewsKings Place to launch London Unwrapped, with concerts streamed from late February
The year-long series celebrates the musical diversity of Britain’s capital
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NewsMost shielding musicians feel they cannot return to work until vaccinated, research reveals
Almost all respondents do not believe that the Government has a clear plan on how to get them back to work safely
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VideoDan Flanagan plays Shadow Breaking: a piece inspired by a painting
In this video, violinist Dan Flangan plays Shadow Breaking, a new piece by Nathaniel Stookey. It’s part of a lockdown project for Flanagan, who has commissioned 16 composers to write solo violin pieces for him, each inspired by a painting in the violinist’s collection. The composers include Libby Larsen, ...
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NewsJean-Marie Gamard - former principal cellist of the Orchestre national de France - has died
The cellist was 78 years old
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VideoViolinist Anne-Sophie Mutter performs Mendelssohn aged 14
Anne-Sophie Mutter performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the Munich Philharmonic conducted by Gerd Albrecht in 1978 at the age of 14. Read: Anne-Sophie Mutter on Herbert von Karajan and John Williams Read: ‘Extremes of constant vibrato or none at all do not solve musical problems,’ says violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter
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NewsWigmore Hall unveils programme of 40 live-streamed concerts
More than 200 players will have the chance to play at the London venue over the next six weeks
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NewsChloe Hanslip to give free masterclasses at Hertfordshire Festival of Music
Classes are open to anyone of Grade 8 or Diploma level and are free of charge
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NewsFinalists announced in Jascha Heifetz violin competition
A jury chaired by Gidon Kremer will choose the winner at the finals in May
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NewsMusic industry welcomes UK Government’s commitment to save touring in Europe
The Minister for Digital and Culture has commited to working with music organisations to find solutions to the touring issue
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FocusTai Murray on expanding the classical repertoire
The violinist stresses the importance of profiling contemporary composers of every visual colour and every invisible one
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VideoViktoria Mullova plays Mozart in 1989
In this video the Soviet-born violinist Viktoria Mullova plays Mozart’s Violin Concerto No 5 with Das Württembergische Kammerorchester Heilbronn under Jörg Faerber in 1989 - just a few years after escaping from the Soviet Union at the age of 23. Watch: Viktoria Mullova plerforms Bach Violin Concertos Read: ...
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FocusHow to play cantabile on the cello
Ahead of her new album release, the French-Swiss cellist Ophélie Gaillard explains how she simulates the vocal expressiveness of a melodic line on the cello
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VideoDebussy’s Sonata for Cello and Piano: a film fusing music and narrative
In this video - the first in a series fusing music and narrative - cellist Alexander Hersh plays Debussy’s Cello and Piano with pianist Victor Asunción. Hersh says: ‘With the onset of a worldwide pandemic, I’ve come to regard beautifully conceived and filmed classical music videos as an existential imperative ...
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NewsBarbican to stay closed to capacity audiences through summer 2021
The Live from the Barbican series will continue after Easter
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Blogs‘You can see me, but I can’t see you!’ – Rachel Smith on performing in front of cameras, without a live audience
To tie in with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s 6-week series of streamed lunchtime concerts, Rachel Smith, one of the orchestra’s violinists, reflects on the experience of performing chamber music in the time of Covid
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VideoCellist Nicholas Gold plays The Swan in the snow
In the video, the American cellist Nicholas Gold plays Saint-Saëns’s The Swan in the snow. Gold says: ‘my friend convinced me to go outside and play the cello in this rare snow storm in Nashville, TN. You can obviously hear the cello pegs fall and I said “peg slip” ...
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NewsViolinist Bomsori Kim signs to Deutsche Grammophon
The 31-year-old South Korean violinist’s debut album with the label is set for international release in June
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NewsCellist David Guggenheim, principal cellist of the Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra, has died
The American cellist was 91 years old
