All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 96
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Violinists, cellists and quartets to be honoured at Echo Klassik awards
Violinists Anne-Sophie Mutter and Isabelle Faust, cellist Julian Steckel and the Ébène Quartet are among the winners of this year’s Echo Klassik Awards. Organised annually by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie association, the awards honour classical recording artists from around the world. At the awards ceremony on 14 October, Mutter will ...
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Korean Red Cross launches orchestra of young defectors from North Korea
The Korean Red Cross has launched a youth orchestra of defectors from North Korea, reports the Korea Joongang Daily. The Hope Windmill Orchestra comprises 76 musicians aged between 11 and 21. They will receive two-hour lessons every week and will be mentored by professional orchestral musicians. The youth ...
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Four more In Harmony projects join Liverpool and Lambeth
In Harmony, England's social and music education programme that is inspired by Venezuela's El Sistema, is adding four more projects across the country. Projects in Newcastle, Leeds, Nottingham and Telford & Wrekin will join existing programmes in Liverpool and the London borough of Lambeth from this September. All six ...
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Baroque cellist Beiliang Zhu takes first prize at Bach Competition in Leipzig
Baroque cellist Beiliang Zhu, from China, won first prize in the cello/Baroque cello division of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig. Zhu, 26, who has studied with Steven Doane, Phoebe Carrai and Sarah Cunningham, received €10,000. Second prize went to Hungarian cellist Ditta Rohmann, 29. French cellist Clara ...
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Füssen holds exhibition to celebrate Cremonese violins
A new exhibition in the German town of Füssen celebrates the history of violin making in Cremona. The instrument exhibition at the Füssen Heritage Museum includes five historical violins: one of the instruments made by Andrea Amati for King Charles IX of France in c.1566, a violin by Francesco ...
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ArticleJack Quartet plays Xenakis
The Jack Quartet's Wigmore Hall Live disc of music by Ligeti, Pintscher, Cage and Xenakis is a recommended CD in our July issue. Here is the quartet in an earlier Xenakis recording.
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ArticleStefano Scodanibbio
The July issue includes a tribute to the late, great double bassist and composer Stefano Scodanibbio. Here he is playing one of his solo bass pieces, & Roll, in 2009
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ArticleSchubert: 'Death and the Maiden'
In the August issue of The Strad, violinist Arnold Steinhardt discusses Schubert’s String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’. Here's a performance by the Takács Quartet.
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Government considers options for orchestras amid falling audience numbers
New Zealand's Ministry for Culture and Heritage has launched a review of the country's professional orchestras, and has released a discussion paper inviting feedback on possible scenarios for the future of the sector. The review concerns the national orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO), and the country's ...
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Obscure Italian composer, and not Vivaldi, may have written Baroque violin concerto
The violin concerto discovered in the archives of the Dresden State Library last June is ‘almost certainly’ not by Vivaldi, according to Baroque expert Michael Talbot. It now appears likely that the work was written by the lesser-known Italian composer Francesco Maria Cattaneo. A contemporary of Johann Georg ...
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Violinist Victor Aitay, Chicago Symphony concertmaster for 19 years, dies
Victor Aitay, who performed for 19 years as concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), died on 24 July at the age of 91. He played with the orchestra for 50 seasons, also serving as assistant and associate concertmaster, and concertmaster emeritus until 2003. Born in Budapest in 1921, ...
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Violinist Frank Almond to make ‘Lipinski' recording after reaching crowdfunding target
US violinist Frank Almond has succeeded in raising more than $30,000 for his latest recording project. In August, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s concertmaster will record works associated with the 1715 'Lipinski' Stradivari violin, which he has played since 2008. Almond used the crowdfunding website Kickstarter to raise the necessary ...
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Kazakh violinist Erzhan Kulibaev wins Buenos Aires International Violin Competition
Erzhan Kulibaev, a 25-year-old from Kazakhstan, has won first prize at the second Buenos Aires International Violin Competition. Kulibaev, who studied with Zakhar Bron in Madrid and in Novosibirsk, received $20,000 for his first prize, and also won a $2,500 award for the best performance of Argentine tangos. Second prize ...
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ReviewBrahms: Cello Sonatas no.1 in E minor op.38 & no.1 in F major op.99
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A disappointing coupling of two key works from a young cellistMusicians: Laura Buruiana (cello) Matei Varga (piano)Composer: Brahms Performers who record such well-known repertoire as the Brahms cello sonatas at the start of their career should be certain that ...
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ReviewBall: Cello Concerto no.1*, Song Without Words† , Roundelay† , Close of the Day† , Folksong Arrangements† , For Stjepan
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Unashamedly tuneful music played by a young star of the celloMusicians: Stjepan Hauser (cello) Yoko Misumi† (piano) Emerald Concert Orchestra/Christopher Ball*Composer: Ball The Croatian cellist Stjepan Hauser has become something of a celebrity, appearing as one half ...
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ReviewDe Machy: Suites no.1 in D minor, no.4 in G major, no.5 in D minor & no.8 in A major from Pièces de violle (1685)
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Vindication for the work of a 17th-century French viol player and composerMusicians: Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba)Composer: De MachyPaolo Pandolfo believes that scholars have grossly underestimated de Machy’s influence on his contemporaries and successors. He aims to set the record straight with ...
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ReviewAffettuoso. Piani: Violin Sonatas op.1 no.2 in E minor, no.4 in G major, no.8 in B minor & no.10 in D major. Geminiani: Violin Sonatas op.1 no.7 in C minor & no.8 in B minor. Handel: Violin Sonata in
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A fast and furious approach to Baroque sonatas has gains and lossesMusicians: Emilio Percan (Baroque violin) Oriol Aymat Fusté (Baroque cello) Luca Quintavalle (harpsichord)Composer: Piani, Geminiani, HandelCaptured in a clear and resonant recording, Emilio Percan’s programme of Baroque repertoire is loosely connected ...
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ReviewJoubert: String Quartets no.1 in A flat major op.1, no.2 op.91 & no.3 op.112
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A worthy birthday tribute to one of Britain’s most accomplished senior composersMusicians: Brodsky QuartetComposer: Joubert The music of South African-born composer John Joubert, who settled in the UK in the 1940s and is perhaps best known for vocal music ...
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ReviewRachmaninoff: Trios élégiaques no.1 in G minor op.8 & no.2 in D minor op. 9
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: An account of an early piano trio that cannot hide the work’s structural weaknessesMusicians: London Mozart TrioComposer: RachmaninoffRachmaninoff’s second Trio élégiaque was written in 1893 to mourn the death of Tchaikovsky, though it was revised twice in later life. For the 20-year-old ...
