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Focus'Classical musicians must be innovative and personal, without violating tradition,' says Tim Frederiksen
The Royal Danish Academy of Music chamber tutor has a knack of putting together string ensembles that go on to achieve great things, finds Andrew Mellor
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ArticleMusicians respond to Brexit with Beethoven performance in London
The night after the UK's EU referendum, a group of musicians and singers from around Europe and the UK, who had never performed together before, played Beethoven's Ode To Joy live outside St Martin-in-the-Fields in London.Video © 2016 Apple and Biscuit RecordingsRead: Association of British Orchestras warns ...
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Focus'Tone virile and fine. Personality less striking' - Carl Flesch on David Oistrakh's playing
Many of the greatest string players from the past 126 years received their first exposure in The Strad as a result of their success at international string competitions
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Focus'Teachers should never sit on juries if their students have entered those competitions,' says Aaron Rosand
String playing competitions are more popular than ever, but do they represent the best platform for launching careers? Charlotte Smith asks jurors, winners and organisers for their views
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ArticleDanish Quartet performs Waltz after Lasse
The Danish Quartet perform 'Valse from Lasse' arranged by Fredrik Sjolin for Performance Today.The ensemble appears on the cover of The Strad's July 2016 issue as one of several ensembles brought together by Danish chamber music tutor Tim Frederiksen – download on desktop computer or through The Strad ...
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ArticleConcert catastrophe: violin knocked from soloist's hands by enthusiastic conductor
It's every violinist's worst nightmare... As soloist Rómulo Assis was performing the final movement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Orquestra do Norte, conductor Nuno Côrte-Real's enthusiastic gesticulation knocked the instrument from his hands and sent it crashing to the ground.The incident took place at a concert in Amarante, ...
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ArticleViolinists Maxim Vengerov and Vadim Repin perform together as students
Violinists Vadim Repin and Maxim Vengerov perform together as students in this short clip from a documentary about their teacher Zakhar Bron. Watch: A young Vadim Repin performs Ysaÿe’s Solo Violin Sonata no.3
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ArticleViolinist Janine Jansen perform's Massenet's Meditation
Janine Jansen gives a particularly sensitive performance of Massenet's Meditation from Thaïs.Watch: Janine Jansen performs Brahms's Violin Concerto
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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov performs Paganini's Caprice no.24
Violinist Maxim Vengerov performs Paganini's Caprice no.24 as an encore at the Luna Classics Festival 2014 in Nyon, Switzerland. Watch: Maxim Vengerov on playing the violin like Mozart Watch: Maxim Vengerov on taking time to explore the fingerboard
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ArticleJanine Jansen performs Brahms Violin Concerto
Janine Jansen performs Brahms's Violin Concerto with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Bernard Haitink in 2014.Antje Weithaas continues The Strad’s marked-up sheet music series in association with Henle Verlag with the Brahms Concerto's first movement – giving bowings, fingerings and ideas for interpretation in our June ...
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman performs Wieniawski's Etude Caprice, op.18 no.4
Violinist Itzhak Perlman performs Wieniawski's Etude Caprice op.18 no.4 in Moscow's Tchaikovsky Concerto Hall in 1992. Read: Never practise for more than five hours per day, says violinist Itzhak Perlman Watch: Violinist Itzhak Perlman on musical prodigies
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FocusA history and anatomy of Beethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata
The dedicatee of Beethoven's 'Kreutzer' Sonata considered it so impenetrable that he never even played it. Rok Klopčič untangles some of the difficulties of this much-loved work
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ArticleViolinist Isaac Stern and cellist Yo-Yo Ma perform the Brahms Double Concerto
A 66-year-old Isaac Stern performs Brahms Double Concerto in A minor, op.102, with Yo-Yo Ma and the NHK Symphony Orchestra at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo in 1986. Watch: Isaac Stern on what makes an artist Watch: Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose and Eugene Istomin perform Brahms Watch: ...
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ArticleViolinist Yoojin Jang gives winning Mendelssohn and Stravinsky performances at Sendai Competition
Yoojin Jang gives her winning performances of Mendelssohn and Stravinsky violin concertos in the final of the 2016 Sendai International Violin Competition with the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Junichi Hirokami.Read: Yoojin Jang wins Sendai International Violin Competition 2016
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ArticleViolinist Ayana Tsuji gives winning Sibelius performance at Montreal Music Competition
18-year-old Japanese violinist Ayana Tsuji gives her winning performance of Sibelius's Violin Concerto at the 2016 Montreal International Music Competition with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.Read: Violinist Ayana Tsuji wins Montreal International Music Competition
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ArticleChristian Tetzlaff violin masterclass: Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47
You use an arm vibrato, but I think you should add a hand vibrato to your repertoire - the piece needs to sound like an old man with lots of body, more relaxed' Christian Tetzlaff gives a masterclass on Sibelius' Violin Concerto in D minor at the ...
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FocusHow the harmonic series can unleash your tonal energy
Work on the harmonic series and you'll release a wealth of colour from your instrument without effort. Pedro de Alcantara explains how it's done
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ArticleMischa Maisky plays Bach Cello Suite No.1 in G
Mischa Maisky performs the Bach Cello Suite No.1 in G.Watch: Cellist Mischa Maisky performs Rachmaninov’s VocaliseWatch: Mischa Maisky performs Haydn’s Cello Concerto no.1Read: Cellist Mischa Maisky on studying with Piatigorsky and Rostropovich
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BlogsA cellist's bow goes flying
23-year-old International Paulo Cello Competition-winning cellist Kian Soltani loses control of his bow - but retains his composure - while playing Dohnányi's String Trio Serenade with Montreal International Musical Competition-winning violinist Marc Bouchkov and Ebène Quartet violist Adrien Boisseau.
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ArticleQuebec violin students perform Star Wars theme with lightsaber bows
Students from the École de l'Harmonie in Quebec perform John Williams's Star Wars theme with lightsaber bows in December 2015. The bows were made using LEDs by violin teacher Philippe Amyot. 'Balancing the bows was hard work for the children because of the added weight,' he said.Watch: John ...
