Improve your playing continued – Page 25
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Blogs12 tango music techniques for string players
London Tango Orchestra director and violinist Caroline Pearsall demonstrates tango music effects
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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov performs Wieniawski's Légende
Maxim Vengerov performs Wieniawski's Légende at Festival Luna Classics in Nyon, Switzerland in 2014 in celebration of his 40th birthday.Watch: Violinist Maxim Vengerov performs Paganini’s Caprice no.24Watch: Maxim Vengerov on playing the violin like MozartWatch: Maxim Vengerov on taking time to explore the fingerboard
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FocusIs it healthy to arch your back and raise your violin when playing up high, as top soloists often do?
Top teachers Boris Kuschnir and Mimi Zweig answer a reader's question for The Strad's Teacher Talk section
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ArticleViktoria Mullova plays Sibelius Violin Concerto
Viktoria Mullova performs Sibelius's Violin Concerto with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest in April 2016. Watch: Violinist Viktoria Mullova gives winning performance at the 1980 Sibelius Competition
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BlogsViolinist Pekka Kuusisto's cheeky Proms encore
Violinist Pekka Kuusisto follows his BBC Proms performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in London's Royal Albert Hall on 5 August 2016 with a lively rendition of Finnish folk song My Darling Is Beautiful - featuring some cheeky lyrics.Kuusisto sings and and plays his instrument and eventually invites the ...
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Article93-year-old violinist Ivry Gitlis performs Kreisler
93-year-old violinist Ivry Gitlis joins pianist Khatia Buniatishvili to perform Kreisler's Liebesleid, Schön Rosmarin and Syncopation, alongside Maria Theresia von Paradis' Sicilienne at an Aix-en-Provence concert in April 2016, broadcast by ARTE Concert. Read: 8 opinions on performance and career by violinist Ivry Giltis Watch: Ivry Gitlis ...
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Focus'Extremes of constant vibrato or none at all do not solve musical problems,' says violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter
The violinist speaks about vibrato as an expressive device
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ArticleAnne-Sophie Mutter performs Sibelius Violin Concerto
Anne-Sophie Mutter performs the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons in May 2015. Read: ‘Extremes of constant vibrato or none at all do not solve musical problems,’ says violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter Watch: Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter films her performance with a head ...
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ArticleA violin bow with a mind of its own
A violinist's enthusiastic final bow stroke makes for a finale to remember in this orchestral concert from 2013.Watch: A bow hair disasterWatch: Violist Yuri Bashmet in tailpiece disasterWatch: Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt in page turning catastrophe
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ArticleRenaud Capuçon performs Gluck's Melodie on solo violin
Renaud Capuçon performs Gluck's Melodie on solo violin as an encore at a concert with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in May 2016.Watch: Violinist Renaud Capuçon performs in the Paris MetroWatch: Capuçon brothers – violinist Renaud and cellist Gautier – perform together at the BBC Proms
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ArticleEric Silberger and ensemble perform The Lark Ascending arranged for string sextet
In this brand new video Heifetz Institute Artist in Residence Eric Silberger is joined by the Von Quartet and bassist Matt Sorrentino to give the North American premiere of composer and arranger Martin Gerigk's string-sextet version of The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams.Watch: Violinist Eric Silberger performs ...
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ArticleMadeleine Mitchell on becoming a complete violinist
The violinist and Royal College of Music, London professor speaks about adopting a rounded approach to being a musician
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FocusString quartets were likened to refined conversation during the 18th and 19th centuries
Edward Klorman explores the string quartet's varied treatment throughout history
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FocusRecording your playing provides easy and effective feedback. So why isn’t everyone doing it?
With techniques drawn from sport psychology you can retain more of what you learn, says musician and performance psychology expert Christine Carter
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ArticleSol Gabetta performs Elgar's Cello Concerto at Proms 2016
Sol Gabetta performs the fourth movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto at the 2016 BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo. Read: ‘There is a tiger inside my instrument': Sol Gabetta talks about her newly acquired cello Watch: Sol Gabetta’s cello transformed by light ...
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ArticleSol Gabetta and cello ensemble perform Piazzolla's Primavera Porteña
Sol Gabetta joins fellow cellists Ivan Monighetti, Monika Leskovar, Rafael Rosenfeld, Emil Rovner, Asier Polo, Kian Soltani and Astrig Siranossian to perform Astor Piazzolla's Primavera Porteña at the Solsberg Festival in 2015. Watch: Sol Gabetta's cello transformed by light show for BBC Proms Sol Gabetta is The ...
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ArticleDavid Garrett sets Guinness World Record for Fastest Violin Player
David Garrett breaks the Guinness World Record for the Fastest Violin Player in December 2008, performing Flight of the Bumblebee in 1 minute 5.26 seconds. Read: 7 tips for playing fast passages Read: How to play fast passages without tension, by cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi
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ArticleRay Chen and Daniel Jang perform Wieniawski's Etude Caprice, op.18 no.4
Classical musicians are actually really funny people - they are often just too shy or intimidated to show their real selves to the audience. So I just try to show what I am like as a person'Virtuoso violinist Ray Chen joined Daniel Jang to perform Wieniawski's Etude Caprice ...
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BlogsMastering up-bow and down-bow staccato
Dr Tomas Cotik gives an introduction to the bow stroke and demonstrates techniques and exercises
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ArticleViolin accident: what to do when your bow flies out of your hand
Violinist Sara Delić loses control of her bow - which threatens to go flying - during a performance of Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen.Watch: A bow hair disasterWatch: Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt in page-turning disaster
