All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 85
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First complete performance of Stockhausen's helicopter quartet to take place in Birmingham
Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet is to be heard in its intended context for the very first time when Birmingham Opera Company mounts a production of Stockhausen's Mittwoch aus Licht (Wednesday from Light) this summer. The flying quartet is only one part of the opera, a five-hour epic that also ...
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UK's Musicians' Union backs 'Art of Teaching' site for music teaching videos
Cello and double bass lessons have been filmed and posted on YouTube as part of a new project that aims to share good practice among instrumental teachers. The Art of Teaching has been launched by the UK's Musicians' Union and musicteachers.co.uk, and the lesson videos can be seen at musicteachers.co.uk/youtube. ...
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Nine German quartets launch association to press for more ensemble residencies
A new association of German string quartets is campaigning for more ensemble residencies at the country's Musikhochschules and universities. The Verband Deutscher Streichquartette (German String Quartets Association), which officially launched yesterday, has nine founder members: the Auryn, Diogenes, Henschel, Klenke, Kuss, Leipzig, Mandelring, Minguet and Vogler quartets. The organisation, ...
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Future of Music Coalition presents case studies of performers' earnings
The US-based Future of Music Coalition (FMC) has released the first financial case studies in its Artist Revenue Streams project, which aims to examine how musicians' income streams are changing, and why. The FMC, a national non-profit advocacy organisation for musicians, profiled a symphony orchestra string player and a contemporary ...
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Blogs
Gregor Piatigorsky
Ariane Todes delves into The Strad Archive and discovers conflicting views of the great cellist
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Plans revealed for 18-day US spring tour by North Korean national orchestra
An Atlanta-based humanitarian group is planning to bring the North Korean National Symphony Orchestra to the US this spring, reports the Associated Press. Global Resource Services, a non-profit organisation that works in North Korea, is organising an 18-day visit for 164 musicians, journalists and officials. The schedule features concerts ...
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DebateHey, I got a social disease
Twitter has emerged as a great way for string players to engage with their audiences. But if they try too hard to sell themselves they undermine the whole point of social media, argues Ariane Todes
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Former concertmaster's violin stolen in Japan
Police in Japan are investigating the theft of a French violin and bow from a concert hall in Nara Prefecture, reports Japan Today. The instrument, which dates from 1804 and is valued at ¥13m (£100,000) is owned by Kazuto Umezawa, a former concertmaster of the Osaka Philharmonic and Nashville ...
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New York conference to explore treatments for musicians' dystonia
Medical experts and musicians will meet in New York next month for the first-ever Musician's Dystonia Summit. The conference on 9 and 10 March will explore the latest research and treatment possibilities for dystonia, a neurological condition that in musicians is characterised by involuntary muscle spasms triggered by playing an ...
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ReviewShostakovich: String Quartets nos.1, 3 & 8
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Beguilingly lyrical accounts of three of Shostakovich’s more neo-Classical worksMusicians: Ludwig QuartetComposer: ShostakovichNow over a quarter of a century old with only two changes of personnel from the original 1985 line-up, the Ludwig Quartet is justly famous for its richly opulent sound ...
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ReviewFrench Impressions. Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonata no.1 in D minor op.75. Franck: Violin Sonata in A major. Ravel: Violin Sonata in G major
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Joshua Bell excels in repertoire that has always been close his heartMusicians: Joshua Bell (violin) Jeremy Denk (piano)Composer: Saint-Saëns, Franck, RavelJoshua Bell and Jeremy Denk have been regular duo partners for seven years now, but this is the first time they have ...
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ReviewHayes: Violin Concerto*, Lucky’s Speech*, Lucky’s Dream*, Port Rhombus, Strides: Books 1 & 2† , Puppet Theatre† , Three Distressed Surfaces† , Slippage† , Lute Stop†
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Aerial acrobatics dominate a recent concerto for violinMusicians: Keisuke Okazaki* (violin) Jonathan Powell† (piano) Esbjerg Ensemble/Christopher AustinComposer: HayesYoung British composer Morgan Hayes has a distinctive voice that combines rhythmic complexity with harmonic approachability. It has to be said, though, that the ...
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ReviewIves: Violin Sonatas nos.1–4
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A welcome collection of Ives’s complete sonatas for violinMusicians: Hilary Hahn (violin) Valentina Lisitsa (piano)Composer: IvesThough Charles Ives’s violin sonatas are central to the composer’s chamber music, discs containing all four have been few. The booklet relates that in the past three ...
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ReviewShostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor op.40. Britten: Cello Sonata in C major op.65. Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in C major op.119
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A classic repertoire selection let down by an unsympathetic recording balanceMusicians: Jamie Walton (cello) Daniel Grimwood (piano)Composer: Shostakovich, Britten, ProkofievThis grouping of sonatas bound together by the remarkable inspiration of Rostropovich is a well-worn combination on disc. Despite a slightly over-ambient recording, ...
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ReviewHerbert: Serenade for string orchestra op.12, Seven Pieces for cello and string orchestra, Three Pieces for string orchestra
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Little-known string works by an influential composer–cellistMusicians: Maximilian Hornung (cello) Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim/Sebastian TewinkelComposer: HerbertIrish–American composer Victor Herbert (1859–1924) is best remembered for having written a cello concerto that inspired Dvo?ák to write his own B minor work. He was a fine cellist ...
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ReviewStravinsky: Divertimento. Shostakovich: Violin Sonata op.134
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Powerful recordings of two highly different Russian violin worksMusicians: Judith Ingolfsson (violin) Vladimir Stoupel (piano)Composer: Stravinsky, ShostakovichStravinsky’s Divertimento is an arrangement of the music from his ballet The Fairy’s Kiss, a homage to Tchaikovsky. Judith Ingolfsson and Vladimir Stoupel work hard to ...
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ReviewShostakovich: Viola Sonata op.147, Seven Preludes from op.34 (arr. Strakhov), Five Pieces from ‘The Gadfly’ (arr. Borisovsky)
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A collection of Shostakovich’s music for viola that extends beyond the valedictory sonataMusicians: Lawrence Power (viola) Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano) Composer: Shostakovich (arr. Strakhov and Borisovsky) Shostakovich wrote just one piece for the viola – his very last one, the ...
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ReviewBritten: Violin Concerto op.15, Double Concerto in B minor (ed. C. Matthews), Lachrymae op.48
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A powerful collection of Britten’s concertante works for violin and violaMusicians: Anthony Marwood (violin) Lawrence Power (viola) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan VolkovComposer: BrittenYou don’t have to know that Britten’s Violin Concerto was written as war broke out in 1939 to sense that ...
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ReviewChausson: Piano Trio in G minor. Debussy: Piano Trio in G major. Rachmaninoff: Trio élégiaque No.2 in D minor
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Revelatory and benchmark recordings from a vintage trioMusicians: Vienna Schubert TrioComposer: Chausson, Debussy, RachmaninoffThose of us lucky enough to have heard the Vienna Schubert Trio – violinist Boris Kuschnir, cellist MartinuHornstein and pianist Claus-Christian Schuster – during the relatively short period of ...
