All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 84
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ReviewLa Belle Danse: Ballets Anciens & Modernes. Music by Lully, Marais, Muffat, Brade, Praetorius & Rossi
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A new recreation of a renowned Baroque French string ensembleMusicians: Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons/Skip Sempé (director)Composer: Lully, Marais, Muffat, Brade, Praetorius & Rossi This live recording from the 2010 Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht has impressive clarity and presence. It marks this ...
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ArticleEvening Songs. Delius/Ireland: Songs arr. cello & piano
The Strad Issue: Feburary 2012Description: Two notable anniversaries celebrated in a delectable collection of song arrangementsMusicians: Julian Lloyd Webber, Jiaxin Cheng (cello) John Lenehan (piano)Composer: Delius/IrelandTo coincide with the 150th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Delius and the 50th of the death of John Ireland, Julian ...
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ReviewViolin in Motion. Works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Liszt, Beethoven & Franck
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Modern advocacy for the art of the transcriber from a virtuoso duoMusicians: Lidia Baich (violin) Matthias Fletzberger (piano)Composer: Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Liszt, Beethoven & FranckThe age of violin and piano transcriptions of symphonic works had long passed when the music that ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A remarkable testament to a great violinist that transcends its sonic inadequaciesMusicians: Henri Temianka (violin) Leonard Shure (piano)Composer: BeethovenAlthough technically Scottish, Henri Temianka had a continental European background and musical education, with Polish–Jewish parents and time spent studying in Rotterdam, ...
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ReviewVaughan Williams: Suite, Flos campi. McEwen: Viola Concerto
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2012Description: The leading British violist explores more of the Tertis legacy to great effectMusicians: Lawrence Power (viola) BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales/Martyn BrabbinsComposer: Vaughan Williams, McEwenJohn Blackwood McEwen’s Viola Concerto was the first of many works commissioned by the great ...
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ArticleFranck: Violin Sonata in A major (transc. Delsart). Debussy: Cello Sonata in D minor. Poulenc: Cello Sonata
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A welcome collection of three Gallic cello sonatasMusicians: Anne Gastinel (cello) Claire Désert (piano)Composer: Franck (transc. Delsart), Debussy, PoulencFrench cellist Anne Gastinel returns to her roots in this disc, celebrating 20 years since her first recording. Claire Désert creates a still, quiet ...
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The Dam Levels
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: An unusual jazz trio that has a cello instead of the usual double bassMusicians: Will Martinu (cello) Jason Lindner (piano) Richie Barshay (drums)Composer: Will Martinu et alWill Martinu’s group bears some of the hallmarks of recent notable jazz trios The Bad Plus and EST ...
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ReviewKennedy: The Four Elements
The Strad Issue: Feburary 2012Description: Nigel Kennedy’s venture into composition suggests he should stick to playingMusicians: Nigel Kennedy (violin etc) Members of the Orchestra of LifeComposer: KennedyYou can’t fault Kennedy for ambition. Writing almost an hour of new music as a ‘21st-century response to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons’ ...
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Violin made of driftwood from Japan tsunami to tour world
A violin made partly from driftwood from areas devastated in the 11 March 2011 tsunami in Japan is to be played in a musical relay of concerts around the world, reports the Mainichi Daily News. The violin is being made by Muneyuki Nakazawa, a 71-year-old Japanese maker, restorer ...
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Blogs
Coming to America
Paul Watkins, newly named cellist with the Emerson Quartet, tells Christian Lloyd how it came about
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1500-year-old wooden fragment could be bridge from Europe's oldest stringed instrument
Archaeologists working on the Scottish island of Skye have discovered the remains of what could be Europe’s oldest stringed instrument. A fragment of burnt wood was unearthed in late 2011 in southern Skye’s High Pasture Cave. Experts who are now studying the object in the Historic Scotland laboratory believe it ...
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UK quartet player's stolen £25k violin is handed in
A stolen violin worth £25k was handed in at a West London rail station on Wednesday 29 February before being reunited with its owner, Brodowsky Quartet violinist Catrin Win Morgan. The instrument, made by Montpellier maker Frédéric Chaudière, was taken from the overhead luggage rack of a London train ...
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BlogsGordan Nikolitch talks bows
The violinist revealed a passion bordering on obsession for bows in conversation with Ariane Todes
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Dealer and repairer steps in to help schoolgirl whose violin was destroyed
A violin dealer and repairer in Wichita, Kansas, donated a complete violin outfit to a middle-school student whose instrument had been smashed to pieces, reports the Wichita Eagle. The 14-year-old girl had accidentally left her violin on the ground outside her school, on the day before she was due ...
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Burglar posing as violinist steals Joshua Bell's watch in Spain
Joshua Bell's hotel room in Zaragoza, Spain, was burgled as the violinist was giving a concert, reports the Los Angeles Times. A thief posing as Bell apparently convinced hotel staff not only to give him a key to Bell's room, but also to open the room's safe. The thief then ...
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Pinchas Zukerman to leave Ottawa orchestra after 17 years as music director
Pinchas Zukerman, the violinist, violist and conductor, has announced plans to step down as music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) in Ottawa after 17 years at the helm. The 63-year-old will depart at the end of the 2014–15 season.Zukerman joined the NACO in 1988, assuming the dual ...
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ArticleJapanese scientist creates violin strings from spider silk
A researcher in Japan has succeeded in using silk from hundreds of spiders to make a set of violin strings. Shigeyoshi Osaki, a professor at Nara Medical University in southern Honshu, used between 3,000 and 5,000 strands of silk for each string, which produced ‘a soft and profound ...
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Kansas City Symphony.names Philadelphia Orchestra violinist as concertmaster
Noah Geller has been named concertmaster of the Kansas City Symphony. The 28-year-old succeeds Kanako Ito, who left the post in August 2010. Geller is currently first assistant concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which he joined in 2008. He has previously been concertmaster of orchestras at Tanglewood Music Center ...
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Pacifica Quartet to be resident at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
The Pacifica Quartet has been appointed quartet in residence at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. The ensemble is the first quartet to hold a residency at the school in more than 50 years. The quartet's members – violinists Simin Ganatra and Sibbi Bernhardsson, violist Masumi Per Rostad and ...
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Minnesota Orchestra violinist Sarah Kwak joins Oregon Symphony as concertmaster
The Oregon Symphony has appointed Sarah Kwak as its new concertmaster. The Boston-born violinist has been a member of the Minnesota Orchestra since 1988. She was acting concertmaster from January 2010 to September 2011 and is currently first associate concertmaster. She will begin her new position in Portland at the ...
