All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 507
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NewsNew violist for Australian String Quartet
Christopher Cartlidge wil leave his role at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to become the Australian String Quartet’s new violist
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NewsSistema Europe Youth Orchestra announces online SummerFest 2021
The free festival will take place between 21 – 24 and 28 – 30 July 2021, with a focus on innovative approaches to music education, diversity and inclusion
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Blogs5 pieces of advice for playing Bach by violinist Lisa Batiashvili
The artist shares her ideas about performing works of the great Baroque composer
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VideoMark Bassett plays Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword on cello
In honour of the classic Nintendo Wii game’s re-release today, here’s a tune from the epic adventure
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FocusThe Strad Podcast Episode #3: Benjamin Baker on performing solo Bach
Violinist Benjamin Baker speaks about performing all six sonatas and partitas by Bach, as well as how playing solo Bach can inform his playing of contemporary works, and vice versa.
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VideoSantiago Cañon-Valencia performs Bach cello suite no.6 in D major
The Columbian cellist’s quarantine project of recording all the Bach Suites was commissioned by the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá
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VideoCellist Abel Selaocoe performs ‘Nagula’
The South African cellist performs his own composition ahead of his appearance at the Up Close and Musical festival on 29 July
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BlogsImprovising on Bach's solo violin works
In this post originally from 2015, violinist Hugo Ticciati discusses the art of improvisation and using Bach as a basis for musical meditation
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VideoViolist Timothy Ridout and Frank Dupree perform Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet
In this performance at Wigmore Hall from 2017, Timothy Ridout and Frank Dupree perform the Borisovsky arrangement of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet
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VideoAmit Peled and Cello Gang perform for Special Operations Forces
The project was for the Station Foundation, which helps returned service people navigate the transition and reintegration back to civilian life.
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Blogs‘I have never entered a competition hoping to win’ - Emma Wernig
Violist Emma Wernig shares her experiences of finding musical freedom within the stressful environment of competitions
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NewsPhilharmonie de Paris announces lutherie competition
The contest will be held next January for students and professional instrument makers
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NewsViolinist Elizabeth Wallfisch to receive 2021 Telemann Prize
The Baroque specialist has been recognised by the German town for her achievements as a musician and pedagogue
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NewsGuildhall School to broadcast online summer chamber music festival
Three performances, including one from the Consone Quartet, will be broadcast from Thursday 22 July, free of charge and available for one week
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NewsMarmen Quartet appoints new cellist
Cellist Sinéad O’Halloran will join the London-based quartet following the departure of Steffan Morris earlier this year
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VideoTomás Cotik performs Bach’s Chaconne
The violinist performs the Chaconne from Bach’s Violin Partita no.2 using a modern violin and a baroque bow
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VideoManchester Camerata perform Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht
Watch this intimately shot performance of Schoenberg’s string sextet composed in 1899
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FocusViolin making at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music
In this excerpt from the July 2021 issue, Sisi Ye examines a violin making programme in Beijing
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BlogsHow the Taubman Approach can help string players prevent RSIs
Pioneer of the Taubman Approach, pianist and pedagogue Edna Golandsky adapted the method with violinist Sophie Till and shares how returning to natural physical alignment can help string players avoid injury
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BlogsKeeping it fresh and mixing it up - Solem Quartet on combining old and new works
The Solem Quartet reflect on harnessing creativity to inject new life into canonical works, as well as developing unique new works in collaboration with each other and living composers
