All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 494
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FocusRachel Barton Pine on juggling motherhood with a career as a solo violinist
In this article from our archive, originally published in May 2012, the American violinist Rachel Barton Pine explains how she negotiated the early months of motherhood while maintaining her busy solo career
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VideoCastalian String Quartet plays Janácek’s Kreutzer Sonata
As part of their concert for the Polyphonic Concert Club - a series of online concerts featuring Jennifer Pike, Colin Currie Quartet, I Fagiolini, Castalian String Quartet, Red Priest and Isata Kanneh-Mason - the Castalian String Quartet play the final movement of Janácek’s Kreutzer Sonata. The full concert is available ...
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NewsWigmore Hall to reopen with 25-concert anniversary festival
Tickets for all 25 concerts in the re-opening festival are available initially on a ballot basis to Friends of Wigmore Hall
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NewsAnne-Sophie Mutter to become president of German Cancer Aid
The German violinist takes over the role from Fritz Pleitgen
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VideoLawrence Power plays Locked in C
The latest in the British violist’s series of commisions is by Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür
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Focus’You’ll slime them in and slime them out’ – song of the gut string makers
A new translation of a celebratory song brings to life the grisly business of gut string manufacture
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NewsPremiere of the month: Shifting shapes
The Amabile Quartet play Dai Fujikura’s tactile textures and flowing forms
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VideoPremiere of the Month: Amabile Quartet rehearse new work
Ahead of their performance at Tokyo’s Hakuju Hall, the Amabile Quartet rehearse Dai Fujikura’s ‘Aquarius’
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NewsBarbican to bring back concerts for socially distanced live audiences
The Live from the Barbican series will be accessible online as well as for a reduced, socially-distanced live audience from 17 May
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VideoConcertos from the Inside: Rachel Barton Pine plays music by the Chevalier de Saint-Georges
In January, the American violinist Rachel Barton Pine launched 24 in 24: Concertos from the Inside with RBP, a series in which she is performing 24 different violin concertos live and unaccompanied in 24 weeks. As part of the performance, she also delivers a pre-concert talk, and confides what she ...
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NewsDaniel Pioro joins Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as Associate Artist
In his new role the violinist has launched a new contemporary music collective featuring students at the RCS
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FocusHow a Berlin-based Yorkshire violinist experienced Brexit through his music
The violinist Simon Goff explains how he was affected by Brexit as a Brit living in Germany
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NewsCarolin Widmann receives 2020 Duisburg City Music Prize
The annual award, worth €10,000, was given to Widmann for her continued commitment to the city’s musical scene
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VideoRavel’s Vocalise en forme de Habanera played on double bass
A performance by Queenslnd Symphony Orhcestra principal Phoebe Russell, taken from a new online resource for double bassists
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NewsConcertgebouw violist Peter Sokole has died
Sokole, who has died from Covid-19, spent almost three decades assistant principal violist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
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BlogsMarcus du Sautoy explores the symmetry of Stradivari
The Oxford professor for the public undestanding of science attempts to discover what makes Stradivari so special
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NewsBoosey & Hawkes launches YouTube contest for string duos
An audio recording of Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne by the winning duo will be synced to the work’s score on Boosey & Hawkes’ monthly YouTube series
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NewsViolinist Jessie Montgomery appointed Chicago Symphony composer in residence
Montgomery’s three-year position will see her write a series of new orchestral and chamber works
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Premium ❘ ArticleNigel Kennedy: ‘Critics were pretending I was playing out of tune because I’d sold a few records’
In this interview, first published in The Strad’s March 1999 edition, the crossover violinist hits back at snobbery in the classical music world
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NewsFormer Toronto Symphony concertmaster Gerard Kantarjian has died
Kantarjian, who was 90, was born in Cairo and studied with Ivan Galamian in Philadelphia
