All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 492
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NewsContinuo Foundation awards £150,000 to support UK period instrument ensembles
The grants are inteded to support 23 projects for ensembles across the UK, many of whom have not played together since March 2020
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NewsQueen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust offers up to £18,000 for young luthiers
The scholarships are intended to further luthiers’ training through college courses or one-to-one sessions with master craftspeople
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ArticleViolinist Ray Chen warming up
The following video from our archive is linked to the Technique article in the April issue of The Strad on warming up the left hand when playing the cello Violinist Ray Chen warms up with an excerpt from the second movement of Bruch's Scottish Fantasy at the Curtis Institute ...
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NewsLondon Symphony Orchestra announces plans for return to Barbican Hall
The orchestra’s return to the Barbican is scheduled for Tuesday 18 May
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VideoAlexander Hersh plays Fauré’s Romance
In this video - the last in a series fusing music and narrative - cellist Alexander Hersh plays Fauré’s Romance for Cello and Piano, Op.69, 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 ...
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NewsLondon Symphony Orchestra appoints Antonio Pappano as its chief conductor
Pappano will take over from Sir Simon Rattle, who steps down from the role in 2023
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NewsDutch violinist and pedagogue Coosje Wijzenbeek has died
Wijzenbeek, whose students included Janine Jansen, was celebrated for her work with young musicians
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Focus‘I wasn’t even sure if I wanted to play the violin any more’ – David Garrett
Garrett was plagued by feelings of inadequacy after spending his childhood in the classical spotlight, he tells Charlotte Smith
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NewsBerlin Philharmonic cellist Ottomar Borwitzky has died
Borwitzky spent 37 years as the orchestra’s first principal cellist
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News‘Open strings are just as interesting as a Brahms sonata’ – Coosje Wijzenbeek
In this interview from 2012, The Netherlands’ most celebrated pedagogue (and Janine Jansen’s teacher) tells us about her approach
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VideoTartini’s Devil’s Trill meets Klezmer-style improvisation
The music slips from the world of Baroque into a klezmer-style improvisation in this performance of Tartini’s Devil’s Trill by David Le Page and the Orchestra of the Swan from their latest streamed concert: ’Interpretation of Dreams’. The concert also includes music by Pärt, Messiaen, Monti, Cervantes, Liszt, Badalamenti and ...
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NewsThousands demand plaque for renowned Black violinist in Bath
A petition demands a memorial for George Polgreen Bridgetower, who gave the first public performance of Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata
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NewsKadiatu and Stuart Kanneh-Mason join Music Masters board of trustees
The parents of the Kanneh-Mason children will now serve on the Music Masters board
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NewsSeveral music venues receive support from second round of UK Government’s Culture Recovery Fund
The London Symphony Orchestra and Wigmore Hall are among the recipients
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Video‘Gethsemane’ for violin solo by Deborah Pritchard
In the lead-up to Easter the violinist Greta Mutlu plays Deborah Pritchard’s new solo violin piece ‘Gethsemane’, depicting the tranquility of the Garden of Gethsemane during the Passion story on Good Friday. Read ’Inside Colour’ for violin solo by Deborah Pritchard
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Focus7 warming up and cooling down exercises for musicians
Suggested warm-ups prior to playing and cool-down stretches following performance and/or practice
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VideoDavid Garrett plays Mendelssohn Violin Concerto aged 18
Filmed just before Garrett took a break from the concert stage, this performance with the NDR Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Herbert Blomstedt
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NewsItalians play ‘Accelerations’ waltz in protest at slow vaccine rollout
Johann Strauss II’s famous accellerando chosen ’to highlight the need to speed up vaccine delivery’, says organiser
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News50th anniversary of Stravinsky’s death to be marked by series of events
A number of performances - many of them streamed - will pay tribute to the Russian composer over the next month
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FocusHow do you balance the piano with strings?
Producing a nuanced, well-balanced and blended combination of piano and strings can be a difficult performance feat to achieve. Pauline Harding talks to chamber musicians, soloists and teachers to discover some of their secrets
