All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 57
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US instrument trade show sets attendance record
Organisers of the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Show, which ran from 13 to 16 January in Anaheim, California, have reported record attendance figures. The number of registered attendees was 90,114, up three per cent from the 2010 total. The number of non-US visitors also increased from last year ...
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New $10,000 grant for young string players
Online auction specialist Tarisio has launched a scheme to help young string players buy instruments and bows. Its new grant programme will award up to $10,000 of matching funds towards the price of an instrument or bow purchased at a Tarisio auction. Musicians under 30 who are studying or have ...
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BlogsEye contact in orchestras
Controversial conducting style raises questions, argues Ariane Todes
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Ulster Orchestra wins community award for helping elderly
The Ulster Orchestra has been honoured at the Allianz Arts & Business NI Awards for its community work. The orchestra, in partnership with local employer JTI UK, has been operating a ticket-and-transport scheme over the winter called Move to the Music. Aimed at people over 70 who are living alone, ...
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Blogs
One hundred and forty characters and counting
David Miliband's recent interview with The Strad was picked up by Fleet Street and was perhaps more revealing than we had originally thought, says Matthew Andrews
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Endowment honours violinist and teacher Robert Mann
The entrepreneur brother of Juilliard Quartet founding member Robert Mann has given $6m to endow two chairs in the 90-year-old violinist's name. The donation from 85-year-old Alfred Mann and his wife Claude will fund a chair at the Manhattan School of Music, where Robert Mann teaches violin and chamber music, ...
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Chinese violinist Ying Fu wins Schmidbauer Competition
Chinese violinist Ying Fu has won first prize at the Schmidbauer International Young Artist Strings Competition in Nacogdoches, Texas. The 26-year-old, who is a student at Rice University, where he studied with the late Sergiu Luca, received $7,500 for his first place in the senior division. Violinist Xiaoxiao Qiang, 23, ...
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Toronto Symphony Orchestra conductor Peter Oundjian to play violin again
Peter Oundjian, the Toronto Symphony music director whose career as a violinist was cut short in 1995 by focal dystonia, is to pick up his instrument again. In April 2012 he will partner his former teacher Itzhak Perlman in a one-off performance of Bach's Concerto for Two Violins. Oundjian was ...
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ArticleRubinstein: Piano Trios nos.1–5
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Edlian Piano TrioComposer: RubinsteinThere is a lot more (thankfully) to Anton Rubinstein’s creative talent than the penny-plain phrases of the once ubiquitous Melody in F. Although his skilfully wrought music may lack the strong emotional profile of his one-time student Tchaikovsky, his ...
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ArticleSaint-Saëns: Violin Concertos no.1 in A major op.20, no.2 in C major op.58 & no.3 in B minor op.61
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Fanny Clamagirand (violin) Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä/Patrick GalloisComposer: Saint-SaënsStrength of rhetoric and hauntingly memorable melodies make Saint-Saëns’s violin concertos highly effective compositions, especially the large-scale and detectably Mendelssohnian Second. The fiery playing of Fanny Clamagirand, an ex-student of Jean-Jacques Kantorow at the Paris ...
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ArticleSibelius: String Quartet in D minor op.56 ‘Voces intimae’. Schoenberg: String Quartet no.1 in D minor op.7
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A spare, intense reading of Brahms and SchoenbergMusicians: Tetzlaff QuartetComposer: Sibelius, SchoenbergSibelius and Schoenberg might seem an unlikely pairing, but the two composers’ D minor quartets are well matched for their obsession with musical process, Sibelius with Beethovenian motivic development, ...
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ArticleLolli: Sonatas for violin & basso continuo op.1 no.4, op.3 nos.2, 4–6 & op.9 no.2
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Luca Fanfoni, Antonella Tanetti (violin) Marianne Chen (cello) Paola Del Giudice (harpsichord) Erich Galliani (guitar) Composer: LolliLuca Fanfoni and his colleagues offer variable accounts of a cross-section of Antonio Lolli’s sonatas, eccentric works that proved significant precursors of Paganini’s virtuoso ...
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ArticleThe Path. Yanov-Yanovsky: Chang Music IV movements 1 & 2 Pärt Von Angesicht zu Angesicht, Summa. Medyulyanova: Ewige Ruhe. Vrebalov: The Spell III. Tavener: Epistle of Love, Sámaveda. Nadarejshvili: Q
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Carducci Quartet, Elizabeth Cooney (violin) Joachim Roewer (viola) Malachy Robinson (double bass), etcComposer: Yanov-Yanovsky, Pärt, Medyulyanova, Vrebalov, Tavener, NadarejshviliThe players of the excellent Carducci Quartet are the perfect exponents of this lyrical yet gritty collection of contemporary music, which includes world premiere ...
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ArticleBartók: Violin Concertos no.1 & 2
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Arabella Steinbacher (violin) Suisse Romande Orchestra/Marek JanowskiComposer: Bartók Soloist, conductor, Swiss orchestra and recording team here combine to give us one of the best versions of the massive 1938 Bartók Second Violin Concerto. There is a nice easy swing to ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Cello Sonatas nos.1–5, Sonata in F major op.17
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Peter Martens (cello) Luis MagalhÁes (piano)Composer: BeethovenThe marketing hook for this set lies in the artists’ reference to Czerny’s insights on performing Beethoven’s music, paying particular attention to the younger composer’s recommended metronome markings. Fervent adherence to these suggestions results in some ...
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ArticleBrahms: Violin Sonatas in G major op.78, A major op.100 & D minor op.108
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Affecting and lyrical interpretations of BrahmsMusicians: Stefan Jackiw (violin) Max Levinson (piano)Composer: BrahmsSony has only recently issued the three Brahms sonatas played by Jack Liebeck (reviewed September 2010), but the young American violinist Stefan Jackiw hits such a high level ...
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ArticleBach: Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin BWV1001–1006
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Sergey Khachatryan (violin)Composer: BachThis is wonderfully expressive playing, of a kind that I was beginning to fear had gone for ever. In an interview I saw, Sergey Khachatryan refused to name role models, but I would be surprised if he ...
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ArticleVirtuoso. Tartini: Violin Sonata in G minor ‘Devil’s Trill’ (arr. Kreisler). Bach: Chaconne from Partita in D minor BWV1004. Wieniawski: Légende op.17, Variations on an Original Theme op.15. Franck: V
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Ray Chen (violin) Noreen Polera (piano)Composer: Tartini, Bach, Wieniawski, FranckSuccess in the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition has brought the Taiwanese-born violinist Ray Chen an exclusive recording contract with Sony. It is pleasing to find that his debut release is not simply a ...
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ArticleBach: Six Suites for solo cello BWV1007–12
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Light, intriguing performances of the later Bach suitesMusicians: Roel Dieltiens (cello) Composer: BachBelgian cellist Roel Dieltiens, for years continuo cellist for Rene Jacobs and principal cello of the Orchestra of the 18th Century, is true to his period roots ...
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ArticleViola altera. Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy op.25. Händel–Halvorsen: Passacaglia. Paganini: Caprices nos.4, 6, 7, 11 & 24, La campanella (arr. Primrose)
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: MÁ tè Szücs (viola) László Fenyö (cello) Daniel Blumenthal (piano)Composer: Sarasate, Händel–Halvorsen, PaganiniThis recording’s title – ‘The Proud Viola’ – and its contents (not to mention a booklet note that deplores the sad fate of viola players, condemned to play just chamber ...
