All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 95
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ReviewCastello/Fontana: Sonate concertate in stil moderno
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Colourful accounts of 17th-century Venetian sonatasMusicians: John Holloway (violin) Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord) Jane Gower (dulcian)Composer: Castello/FontanaOn this exemplary recording, period violinist John Holloway and his colleagues perform seven of Fontana’s 18 Sonate à 1. 2. 3. (1641), framed by six works ...
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ReviewIt Don’t Mean a Thing
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Mixed results in an attempt to bring the big-band sound to stringsMusicians: String Fever/Marin Alsop (violin)Composer: VariousSeveral years before her conducting career took off, Marin Alsop formed, as a violinist, the String Fever ensemble, and this album comprises two recording sessions of ...
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Blogs
Sharing the knowledge
Ariane Todes is impressed by the openness of luthiers at the makers' workshops in Oberlin
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ArticleChristian Howes improvises on Bach
In the July issue, jazz violinist Christian Howes suggests ways for teachers to introduce improvisation into their lessons. Here he plays his version of the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite no.1.
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Cellist Sol Gabetta wins €10,000 Würth Prize
Cellist Sol Gabetta has been named the winner of the 2012 Würth Prize. Worth €10,000, the award is given annually to musicians and ensembles considered to be role models for encouraging young people’s interest in classical music. It is organised by the German branch of the Jeunesses Musicales international youth ...
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Violinist Sheldon Rotenberg, who played with Boston Symphony Orchestra for 43 years, dies
US violinist Sheldon Rotenberg died on 23 June at the age of 95. A veteran of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), he was originally hired by music director Serge Koussevitzky in 1948. Rotenberg retired from the orchestra 43 years later in 1991, having played under four subsequent music directors: Charles ...
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Could violin concerto found in Dresden be the work of Antonio Vivaldi?
An 18th-century violin concerto, possibly by Antonio Vivaldi, has been discovered in the archives of the Dresden State Library. The technically demanding 17-minute work has been attributed to the Italian composer by Baroque expert Michael Talbot, and may receive its modern premiere this September. The work in A major ...
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ArticleDarol Anger plays solo
Fiddler Darol Anger offers tips on teaching Bluegrass fundamentals in our July issue. Here he gives a virtuoso solo performance in tribute to Bluegrass fiddler and composer John Hartford
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Amaryllis Quartet awarded €60,000 career-development prize by Frankfurt foundation
The German–Swiss Amaryllis Quartet is the first recipient of a major new chamber music prize awarded by the Frankfurt-based Jürgen Ponto Foundation. The €60,000 award will be given every two years to a young German, Swiss or Austrian quartet that has already won an international chamber music competition. The ...
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ArticlePractice Diary: Adrian Butterfield
Baroque violinist Adrian Butterfield discusses warming up and practising Leclair's Violin no.5 Sonata (Book 2). Download the August 2012 edition to read his full Practice Diary: www.thestrad.com/apps
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Juilliard plans China institute to offer postgraduate and pre-professional music tuition
New York's Juilliard School has signed a framework agreement to set up an educational institute in Tianjin, 75 miles south-east of Beijing. If the project goes ahead, it will be the 107-year-old conservatoire's first physical expansion beyond its New York City campus. 'This is certainly the first project of ...
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US violin collector Tom Roberts dies aged 75
US businessman and violin collector Tom Roberts died on 11 June at the age of 75. At one point his collection included 36 instruments, many of which he loaned to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, where he lived from 1980. Among Roberts’s violin collection were two Stradivaris: the ...
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Over 100 double bassists join battle in Copenhagen
Next month's Bass 2012 convention in Copenhagen will include a combined art event and concert featuring at least 100 double bassists. Inspired by an 1801 naval engagement in which a British fleet led by Nelson defeated the Danish fleet, the 'Battle of Copenhagen' on 17 August will see the ...
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ArticleLes 24 Violons du Roi
In the July issue we discover how luthiers, string players and musicologists recreated Louis XIV's court orchestra, Les 24 Violons du Roi. Here's a film of the instruments being made and played.
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ArticleBen Powell Quartet
Jazz violinist Ben Powell's latest CD 'New Street' is a recommended disc in our July issue. Here he is in action with his quartet, performing Django Reinhardt's 'Belleville' at a US jazz festival.
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London Music Masters launches Lost and Sound violin recycling campaign
A music charity in London has launched a city-wide instrument recycling campaign, called Lost and Sound. London Music Masters (LMM), which provides music education to children in inner-city primary schools, is calling for supporters to donate any disused violins, cellos, trumpets, flutes and clarinets. The instruments will be ...
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Canada Council acquires violins and cellos valued at C$1.6m
The Canada Council for the Arts has acquired three violins and two cellos for its musical instrument bank. The five instruments are together valued at CAD$1.6m (£1m), bringing the total value of the 19-instrument collection (plus one cello bow) to CAD$28m. The Canada Council used funds from a CAD$1.1m ...
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Marina Yashvili, violin teacher who taught at the Moscow Conservatoire, dies
Georgian violinist and teacher Marina Yashvili has died at the age of 79. For 32 years she taught violin at the Moscow Conservatoire, having previously been a teacher at the Tbilisi Conservatory in Georgia, and at the University of Novi Sad Academy of Arts in the former Yugoslavia. Born ...
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Polish orchestra is renamed after violinist Bronislaw Huberman
The Philharmonic Orchestra in the Polish city of Cz?stochowa has been named after the violinist Bronislaw Huberman, who was born there in 1882, reports Polskie Radio. An official ceremony to mark the renaming is planned for 3 October, when the orchestra's concert hall is due to reopen after refurbishment. ...
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Sotheby's to auction copy of Schoenberg String Quartet no.2 manuscript
An autograph manuscript of Arnold Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet is set to be auctioned by Sotheby’s in October. The copy of the 1908 work, regarded as one of the turning points in Western classical music, is expected to fetch between €100,000 and €150,000. According to Sotheby’s, Schoenberg gave the ...
