All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 495
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NewsCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra players return thanks to new acoustic screen
The orchestra has announced two months of performances with live audiences from 19 May
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VideoNigel Kennedy plays Mendelssohn aged 26
There’s little sign of what was to come in this video of the crossover star performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in 1982
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NewsViolinist María Dueñas scoops €15,000 Rheingau Music Festival award
Given by the festival annually, the prize is intended to be ‘recognition and incentive in equal measure’
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VideoMartinu’s Three Madrigals at the Bromley & Beckenham Festival
Violinist Hyeyoon Park and Violist Timothy Ridout play Martinů’s Three Madrigals, H.313
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ArticleViolist Geraldine Walther to head Colburn School chamber programme
Walther spent 14 years with the Takács Quartet, following almost three decades as prinicpal violist of the San Francisco Symphony
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NewsLondon-based concertmaster practises and composes music during shifts as an Uber driver
Raffaele Pagano took on work as an Uber driver after Covid-19 put his musical career on hold
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Article‘There’s nothing more I can do than my two to three hours of practice a day’ – David Garrett on Covid-19
In this extract from our April issue, the crossover start tell us how past injuries have stopped him turning to intense practice to fill the hours
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NewsViolist Rosalind Ventris and conductor Joseph Fort announced as Artistic Directors of the Cowbridge Music Festival
Under the direction of the husband-and-wife team, the festival is set to return with a series of live concerts
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ArticleOnly have an hour to spare? Then practise like this
Two top pedagogues give their us their best 60-minute practice tips
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VideoMusic & Maths: Baroque & Beyond with Marcus du Sautoy
What is it that makes Stradivarius violins so special and unique? And what does Newton’s Cradle have to do with Baroque music? Marcus du Sautoy, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, presents a programme delving into the relationship between ...
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NewsJourney through the Australian outback with cellist Richard Narroway
Funded by the Freedman Classical Fellowship, Narroway’s performances along the 3000km train route will be turned into a film
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VideoViolist Stephen Upshaw plays Errollyn Wallen’s Lavinia
The violist Stephen Upshaw plays Errollyn Wallen’s ‘LAVINIA’, commissioned for him by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and Riot Ensemble. Wallen says of her piece: ‘Based on the Ancient Greek character Lavinia, this piece seeks to convey the overwhelming and consuming nature of jealousy which most often grows out ...
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VideoRachel Podger and Nicola Benedetti explore the physicality of playing the violin
This is the final video of ‘Building Foundations’ Virtual Sessions, in which Nicola Benedetti shares a series of short interviews on the topic of physicality and psychology of playing with a variety of musicians. Here, Benedetti chats with violinist Rachel Podger about approaches to technique both physically and mentally, the ...
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NewsCellist appointed as director at Dr. Bobbie Bailey School of Music in Georgia, USA
Jesús Castro-Balbi takes on his new role from 1 July
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ArticleDitch the shoulder rest to improve your playing?
In this article, first published in 2007, violinist and pedagogue Aaron Rosand explains why a shoulder rest can get in the way of good technique
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NewsFrench lutenist signs to Warner Classics
Thomas Dunford performs with Jupiter, the instrumental ensemble he founded in 2018, on the forthcoming Erato release Amazone
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VideoEnsemble Diderot plays Fux’s Sonata a tre violini senza basso
In this video from Johannes Pramsohler and Ensemble Diderot, marking the release of their upcoming album on 30 April, baroque violinists Johannes Pramsohler, Roldán Bernabé and Simone Pirri play Fux’s Sonata a tre violini senza basso. Watch Lech Antonio Uszynski plays Toccata and Fugue on the viola Watch 14 top ...
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NewsPhilharmonia to return to live music-making at the Southbank Centre in June
The concerts, on 4 and10 June, will also be the last in Esa-Pekka Salonen’s tenure as the orchestra’s Principal Conductor & Artistic Advisor
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NewsThe Strad May 2021 issue is out now
We mark the 70th birthday of British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber with a look back at his life and career
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News‘I felt the power suddenly go from my bowing arm’ – Julian Lloyd Webber on facing the unthinkable
In this extract from our May 2021 issue, the British cellist recalls the moment a herniated disc put an end to his playing career
