All Artists articles – Page 17
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Premium ❘ FeaturePerfect 5ths
British violinist Rodney Friend has spent many years formulating his method for achieving a relaxed left-hand position. Here, he shares his voyage of discovery with Charlotte Smith
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VideoNicola Benedetti gives masterclass on Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
Nicola Benedetti works with Juillliard School graduate Gregory Cardi on the first movement of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64.
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Premium ❘ FeatureA teacher for all
Kató Havas, the celebrated and much-loved Hungarian violinist and pedagogue, died on 31 December 2018 aged 98. Five former colleagues and students remember her important and generous influence on their own playing and teaching
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VideoAnne-Sophie Mutter: A Life with Beethoven
In this documentary, originally released in 2000, Anne-Sophie Mutter gives us an insight into her view of Beethoven and shares experiences of playing his music, starting with her teenage years, when she performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with Herbert Von Karajan. The documentary includes video clips and photos of Mutter ...
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VideoGil Shaham plays Prokofiev at the Proms
The violinist plays Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No 2 at the BBC Proms with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Taken from a concert on 31st July 2019.
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NewsHilary Hahn begins year-long sabbatical
The violinist has taken a year off with no particular plans, but has a full season booked in 2020-21
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FeatureRenaud Capuçon: Life Lessons
The French soloist talks to Tom Stewart about developing perspective, what teaching has taught him and how he learns from his own students
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FeatureRemembering the great violinist David Oistrakh
Julian Haylock examines the technical poise, interpretative focus and musical humility that made the player a violinistic ideal
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VideoNicola Benedetti at NYO Prom
To end her Prom with the National Youth Orchestra (for whom she was recently made ambassador), Nicola Benedetti performs the second movement of Wynton Marsalis’s Fiddle Dance Suite: a ballade called As the Wind Goes. Read: Nicola-Benedetti-to-become-NYO-ambassador
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VideoPortrait of Anne Akiko Meyers aged 12 in 1983
‘When Anne was born we used to play Beethoven’s Violin Concerto when we fed her so that she would naturally love music,’ says Anne Akiko Meyers’s mother in this profile of the violinist from 1983. Includes footage of the pedagogue Alice Schoenfeld who died in May this year. Read: ...
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VideoHilary Hahn gives her first live Instagram performance for UNICEF
During a strike across Radio France in June, in which her concert with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France was cancelled, Hilary Hahn performed Prokofiev’s 1st Violin Concerto live on Instagram instead, without orchestral accompaniment, raising money for UNICEF.
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Premium ❘ FeaturePassing the Torch
Expert encouragement in their early years helped turn the Belcea Quartet into one of today’s most formidable chamber ensembles. Twenty-five years after they started out, they talk to Tom Stewart about passing on their experience to the next generation – as well as continuing to gain knowledge themselves
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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: Christian Tetzlaff on Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
At the end of last year violinist Christian Tetzlaff made his second official recording of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in two live performances, resulting in an interpretation much more in keeping with his own personal understanding of the work
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FeatureLeon Bosch on playing Bach on the bass
A firm believer in exploring the instrument’s own repertoire, the double bassist is wary of too many awkward and unsatisfying arrangements
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Premium ❘ FeatureLeon Bosch: Irrepressible Drive
South African-born double bassist Leon Bosch has held top orchestral posts and performed as a soloist on multiple international stages since arriving in the UK in 1982. But, as he tells Kimon Daltas, now is not the time to rest on his laurels, as new works and new challenges await
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VideoJanine Jansen performs Brahms’s Violin Concerto conducted by Daniel Harding
Daniel Harding gave his final performances as Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris on 19 and 20 June, in a programme that included Janine Jansen performing Brahms’s Violin Concerto. Here she is in rehearsal.
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ArticleSentimental Work: Gary Hoffman
For the American cellist, Brahms’s op.99 Sonata in F major is the alpha and omega of cello playing, allowing for every possible feeling and a vast array of interpretations
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VideoNicola Benedetti gives family concert at Wigmore Hall
In this video Nicola Benedetti and presenter Lucy Drever give an interactive concert inspired by landscapes, stories and people from across the UK. The programme includes music by Massenet, Bach and Ravel.
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VideoHilary Hahn plays Sibelius aged 16
A look back to 1996, when a 16-year-old Hilary Hahn performed Sibelius’s Violin Concerto with conductor Lorin Maazel and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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VideoIsabelle Faust: Largo from Bach’s Sonata in C Major
Soulful Bach from one of the composer’s most thoughtful interpreters
