All Alina Ibragimova articles
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The Strad Podcast #63: Alina Ibragimova on historically informed performance
The violinist shares her thoughts on performing and recording Telemann Fantasias in an authentic style
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Alina Ibragimova and Alasdair Beatson play for digital West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2020
In this online concert for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2020, streamed on 5 July 2020, violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Alasdair Beatson perform Mozart’s Violin Sonata in E minor K.304, Debussy’s Violin Sonata and Ravel’s Violin Sonata.
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New concert series to launch in Clerkenwell
Fidelio Unbound will feature performers including Steven Isserlis and Alina Ibragimova, with attendance limited to 25 spectators per evening
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Musicians in isolation: Alina Ibragimova
The Russian-British violinist describes what life has held for her since the lockdown started, from the little pleasures of being able to ‘buy milk for the fridge’, to the challenge of tackling all 24 Paganini Caprices.
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Review
Alina Ibragimova: Brahms, C. Schumann
Freshly minted performances of familiar works prove there’s plenty more to say
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Alina Ibragimova on returning to the Laeiszhalle, Hamburg
In this video, the Russian-British violinist talks about the Ernest Chausson Concerto and the Guillaume Lekeu Sonata, and the experience of playing in Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle.
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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien: Vierne, Franck, Ysaÿe
Delicacy and ferocity in a marvellous collection of contrasts
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Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien: Mozart Violin Sonatas, vol.5
Another outstanding Mozart release from this partnership
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Chiaroscuro Quartet: A tribute to our suitcases and British Airways
It sounds like the members of the Chiaroscuro Quartet, led by Alina Ibragimova, have been having some airline trouble – although for a change this isn’t related to taking their instruments as hand luggage but rather the disappearance of their hold luggage.
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Review
Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien: Mozart Violin Sonatas
The Strad Issue: October 2017Description: Standards remain high: some of the most committed Mozart playing you’ll hearMusicians: Alina Ibragimova (violin) Cédric Tiberghien (fortepiano)Composer: MozartCatalogue Number: HYPERION CDA68164 [2 CDs] Volume 4 of this acclaimed cycle sustains the high standards of its predecessors, presenting a careful ...
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Haydn's music is much more unpredictable than Mozart's - the Chiaroscuro Quartet
For their new release the players of the Chiaroscuro Quartet have put their gut strings and period bows to work on Haydn's kaleidoscopic op.20 'Sun' quartets - the second of two recordings. Helen Wallace meets the musicians during rehearsals.
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Chiaroscuro Quartet and pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout perform Mozart
UK period ensemble the Chiaroscuro Quartet - violinists Alina Ibragimova and Pablo Hernán Benedí, violist Emilie Hörnlund and cellist Claire Thirion - performs Mozart's Piano Concerto no.12 with pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout in a video filmed by BR-Klassik. In The Strad's July 2017 issue the Chiaroscuro Quartet discusses ...
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Mozart: Sonatas for keyboard and violin: no.12 in G major K27, no.16 in B flat major K31, no.17 in C major K296, no.23 in D major K306, no.32 in B flat major K454, no.36 in F major K547 ‘For Beginners
The Strad Issue: June 2017Description: Characteristically invigorating performances from two fine Mozartian’sMusicians: Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)Composer: MozartCatalogue Number: HYPERION CDA 68143 (2 CDs)This seasoned duo’s two-disc-for-one Mozart package takes in six works spanning more than 20 years from the two juvenile essays (K27, K31) of ...
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Alina Ibragimova
The Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova launched her career at the age of six, playing in the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. Four years later, her family moved to England, where she completed her education, winning the London Symphony Orchestra Music Scholarship in 2002. A former member of the BBC ...
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Takács Quartet and violinist Alina Ibragimova win Royal Philharmonic Society awards
The Takács Quartet and violinist Alina Ibragimova were among the winners of the 2011 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, which acknowledge achievements in live classical music during 2010. The Takács Quartet, which gave a complete Beethoven quartets cycle at the Southbank Centre in 2009–10, won in the Chamber Music and ...
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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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Violinists Leonidas Kavakos and Alina Ibragimova up for UK music awards
Violinists Leonidas Kavakos and Alina Ibragimova feature on the shortlist for this year's Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, which are given for outstanding live classical music making in the UK. Kavakos and Ibragimova join pianist Stephen Hough in the instrumental category while the Schubert Ensemble and the Takács Quartet head ...