All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 61
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Success for El Sistema-style Scottish orchestra project
A classical music project targeting children from a historically deprived Scottish housing estate has the potential 'to achieve social transformation', according to a new report evaluating the scheme. The Big Noise orchestra programme was set up in the Raploch, Stirling, by Sistema Scotland in 2008, and has given more than ...
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New Quay brothers film for violinist Alina Ibragimova
Alina Ibragimova is teaming up with influential filmmakers and animators the Brothers Quay for a programme of solo violin music at this year's Manchester International Festival. Ibragimova will play works by Berio, Bach, Biber and Bartók in a promenade performance, leading audiences of 100 around the Chetham's School of Music ...
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South Korean Dami Kim wins Japanese violin contest
South Korean violinist Dami Kim won first prize at the Munetsugu Angel Violin Competition in Nagoya, Japan. The 22-year-old, a student of Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory in Boston, won ¥500,000 (£3,800) and the loan of the 1697 'Rainville' Stradivari violin for two years. Hikaru Matsukawa from ...
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Japanese cellist Yuki Ito wins Windsor competition
Japanese cellist Yuki Ito won first prize at the Windsor Festival International String Competition. The 21-year-old, who studies with Alexander Boyarsky at the Royal College of Music in London, was awarded £5,000 plus a bow and concert engagements. Second prize went to Chinese violinist Jiafeng Chen, 24. Bulgarian cellist Michael ...
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Violinist Maxim Vengerov set for recital comeback
Three years after putting away his violin to focus on conducting, Maxim Vengerov is returning to the recital platform as a soloist. The 36-year-old will play Brahms's three Violin Sonatas with pianist Vag Papian at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels on 2 May. In an interview with Radio ...
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English music label launches with recordings of violin sonatas
A new record label specialising in overlooked works by British composers has launched with a disc of violin works. EM Records' debut release features York Bowen's Violin Sonata alongside the world premiere recordings of the violin sonatas of Arthur Bliss and Henry Walford Davies. The performers are Rupert Luck and ...
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Baroque violinist Dmitry Sinkovsky wins Telemann Competition
Dmitry Sinkovsky from Russia won first prize at the International Telemann Competition for historical stringed instruments in Magdeburg, Germany. The 30-year-old Baroque violin specialist received €7,500. Second prize went to Swiss Baroque violinist Anaïs Chen. Viola da gamba player Mathilde Vialle, from France, took third prize.
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New documentary on violinist Jascha Heifetz to receive premiere
A new film biography of violiniist Jascha Heifetz will have its premiere next month in Los Angeles. The documentary, Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler, includes unseen family home movies as well as interviews with former students, Heifetz biographers, and violinists including Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel and Itzhak Perlman. The 84-minute film ...
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Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra cancels Korea visit
The Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra has cancelled a visit to South Korea amid concerns over the radiation risk from Japan. The orchestra was due to give two concerts at the Tongyeong International Music Festival, including tomorrow's opening concert. Despite assurances from Korean authorities that radiation from Japan would not affect Korea, ...
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YouTube orchestra racks up 33m hits
The finale concert of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra on 20 March clocked up 33m views on the video-sharing website. The event at Sydney Opera House drew more than three times the audience for U2's YouTube concert. There were 11.1m live streams of the orchestra's performance, which featured music by composers ...
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Will Cremonese violin making tradition get Unesco protection?
Violin making in Cremona and the pizzas of Naples head up Italy's shortlist of candidates for Unesco's 'intangible' cultural heritage list, according to a report in the Guardian. After Italy secured Unesco status for the Mediterranean diet last year (jointly with Spain, Greece and Morocco), the country is debating which ...
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Swiss police arrest violin dealer Dietmar Machold
Violin dealer Dietmar Machold has been arrested in Switzerland. Swiss police acted on behalf of Austrian investigators, who want to extradite the German-born owner of Machold Rare Violins to Austria to face charges of fraud and misappropriation. Machold is now in custody in a Swiss jail as authorities in the ...
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More losers than winners in Arts Council England orchestral funding decisions
Major UK orchestras took a funding hit as Arts Council England (ACE) announced its long-awaited funding decisions and named the arts organisations on its new national portfolio. All orchestras, ballet and opera companies who were previously supported by ACE had their funding renewed, but the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, ...
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ArticleRubbra: String Quartets no.1 in F minor op.35, no.3 op.112 & no.4 op.150
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Vindication for an under-appreciated English composerMusicians: Maggini QuartetComposer: RubbraThis latest instalment in the Maggini Quartet’s survey of British music for Naxos completes the Rubbra set: the players have already recorded the Second Quartet on a disc that also includes his First Piano ...
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ArticlePiston: String Quartets nos.1, 3 & 5
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Confident performances of string quartets from an American neo-ClassicistMusicians: Harlem QuartetComposer: PistonBy comparison with Copland’s ‘voice of America’ style and Barber’s post-Romantic impulses, Walter Piston was more of a traditionalist, one whose absorption of Stravinsky, Bartók and Hindemith into a highly individual ...
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ArticleRaphael: Violin Concerto no.2 op.87, Solo Violin Sonata op.46 no.2, Duos op.47 nos.1, 2 & 6, Violin Sonatas op.12 no.1 & no.3 op.43, Sonatina op.52, Jabonah op.66a, Sonata for violin & organ op.36
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A concerto and chamber music from a forgotten figure of 20th-century German musicMusicians: Christine Raphael (violin) Max Rostal (violin/viola) Ulf Rodenhäuser (clarinet) Rainer Gepp, Ernst Gröschel (piano) Wolfgang Stockmeier (organ) Northwest German Philharmonic/Jorge RotterComposer: RaphaelGünter Raphael (1903–60) was a German composer and ...
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ArticleBeamish: Violin Concerto, Callisto, Symphony no.1
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: An affecting, war-ravaged violin concerto played by its dedicateeMusicians: Anthony Marwood (violin) Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Martyn BrabbinsComposer: BeamishSally Beamish’s 1994 Violin Concerto was written for Anthony Marwood. At his suggestion, it takes Erich Maria Remarque’s novel of the First World War, All ...
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ArticleBach: Reconstructions and Transcriptions for Strings: Orchestral Suite BWV1067, Fugue in G minor BWV539/1001, Concerto in E minor BWV1053/169/49, Goldberg Variations BWV988 (selection)
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Sensuous performances of Bach arranged for string ensembleMusicians: Furor Musicus/Antoinette Lohmann (viola)Composer: BachThis is period instrument performance at its most warmly engaging and least didactic. Beautifully recorded in an ecclesiastical setting, Bach’s contrapuntal miracles create the strange impression of musical weightlessness as ...
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ArticleMozart: String Quartets in C major K157, in B flat major K458 ‘Hunt’ & in B flat major K589
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Description: First-rate accounts of three varied Mozart quartetsMusicians: Jerusalem QuartetComposer: MozartFor this sublime disc the Jerusalem Quartet chooses one ‘Italian’ work, one ‘Haydn’ and one ‘Prussian’. The playing in the three-movement early piece is alert and very beautiful: the wistful Andante ...
