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  • Heifetz_Paganini
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    Jascha Heifetz performs Paganini's Caprice no.24

    2014-07-14T00:00:00Z

    Violinist Jascha Heifetz performs Paganini's Caprice no.24, including the famous left-hand pizzicato passage - read more about the technique in The Strad's 7 pointers for perfect pizzicato.  

  • PerlmanVib
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    Violinist Itzhak Perlman on vibrato

    2014-07-13T00:00:00Z

    'One of my pet peeves is vibrato, the most underused tool for music-making' Violinist Itzhak Perlman, who is interviewed in The Strad's July 2014 issue, talks about vibrato. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase ...

  • PerlmanPractice
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    Violinist Itzhak Perlman on practising

    2014-07-10T00:00:00Z

    'If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly. If you learn it quickly, you forget it almost immediately' Violinist Itzhak Perlman, who is interviewed in The Strad's July 2014 issue, answers questions about practice. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part ...

  • BaibaS
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    Baiba Skride performs Eichberg's 'Qilaatersorneq'

    2014-07-08T00:00:00Z

    Baiba Skride, who appears on the cover of The Strad's July 2014 issue, performs Søren Nils Eichberg's Violin Concerto 'Qilaatersorneq' at the Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition 2001 in Brussels, for which she was awarded first prize. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...

  • PerlmanZuckerman
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    Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman perform Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante

    2014-07-07T00:00:00Z

    Violinist Itzhak Perlman, who is interviewed in The Strad's July 2014 issue, performs Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, K364 with violist Pinchas Zukerman. Zubin Mehta conducts the Israel Philharmonic.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.

  • arto-noras
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    Arto Noras performs Dvorák's Cello Concerto

    2014-07-06T00:00:00Z

    Arto Noras, who has contributed a Masterclass on Penderecki's Suite for Solo Cello to The Strad's July 2014 issue, performs the first movement from Dvorák's Cello Concerto with the RTVE Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sergiu Comissiona.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a ...

  • Hahn_Korngold
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    Hilary Hahn performs Korngold's Violin Concerto

    2014-07-03T00:00:00Z

    Hilary Hahn performs Korngold's Violin Concerto with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Kent Nagano. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.

  • Karine
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    Karine Georgian performs Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations

    2014-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Cellist Karine Georgian, who contributes a Practice Diary to The Strad's July 2014 issue, performs the cadenza and final two variations of Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yuri Simonov. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition ...

  • Huw_Daniel
    Blogs

    Young musicians should be given access to historic instruments

    2014-07-01T00:00:00Z

    The Jumpstart programme offers a vital service in loaning period instruments to young performers, argues York Early Music Festival artistic advisor and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment leader Kati Debretzeni

  • BachDouble
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    Anne Akiko Meyers and Vadim Gluzman perform Bach's Double Concerto

    2014-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Violinists Anne Akiko Meyers and Vadim Gluzman play on the 'Vieuxtemps' Guarneri del Gesu, dated 1741 and the 'Auer' Stradivarius, dated 1690. Their performance of the Bach Double Concerto took place at the North Shore Chamber Music Festival in Chicago on 4 June 2014. Subscribe to The ...

  • Dicterow_CBS
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    Glenn Dicterow speaks to CBS News about his retirement from NY Phil concertmaster role

    2014-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Glenn Dicterow, who is interviewed in The Strad's June 2014 issue, spoke to CBS News last week about his retirement from the New York Philharmonic after 34 years as the orchestra's concertmaster. The violinist describes himself as a 'musical ambassador' and 'peacemaker' who has dealt with ...

  • DidierLockwood
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    Didier Lockwood performs Tiger Rag

    2014-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Jazz violinist Didier Lockwood, who is interviewed in The Strad's July 2014 issue, performs Stéphane Grappelli's arrangement of Tiger Rag with violinist Fiona Monbet, guitarist Biréli Lagrène and double bassist Diego Imbert at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris in November 2013. Subscribe to The Strad or ...

  • ASMBach
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    Anne-Sophie Mutter performs solo Bach

    2014-06-26T00:00:00Z

    Anne-Sophie Mutter performs the Sarabande from Bach's Solo Violin Partita no.2 in D minor as an encore. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.

  • Fischer
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    Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott perform Halvorsen's Passacaglia

    2014-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Violinist Julia Fischer and cellist Daniel Müller-Schott perform Halvorsen's Passacaglia on December 16, 2007 in Saarbrücken.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.

  • MintsVid
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    Roman Mints performs Ysaÿe's Violin Sonata no.2

    2014-06-24T00:00:00Z

    Roman Mints performs the Obsession - Prelude from Ysaÿe's Violin Sonata no.2, a work which is included on 'Dance of Shadows', his latest album for the Quartz label.Read the violinist's blog on Overcoming a career threatening ganglion.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of ...

  • Aldeburgh
    Blogs

    Playing chamber music in adverse conditions can be a useful rehearsal tool

    2014-06-24T00:00:00Z

    The Strad's assistant editor Pauline Harding performed with her quartet as part of 'Musicircus' at the Aldeburgh Festival – and fought to be heard in a cacophony of whistling winds, brass bands and bongos

  • Baiba
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    Baiba Skride performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto

    2014-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The Strad's July 2014 cover star, Baiba Skride, performs the third movement from Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in Latvia in 2010. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.

  • Rysanov_Maxim
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    Violist Maxim Rysanov performs Bach's Cello Suite no.2

    2014-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Maxim Rysanov performs the Courante from Bach's Cello Suite no.2 in D minor arranged for viola. The violist released Suites nos. 1, 4 and 5 in July 2010 and nos. 2, 3 and 6 in March this year, each on BIS. In the January 2014 issue, ...

  • Koh
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    Violinist Jennifer Koh talks about the physical demands on a performer's body

    2014-06-18T00:00:00Z

    In the third episode of Jennifer Koh's Off Stage On Record series, the violinist talks about the physical demands on a performer's body and the importance of avoiding injury. Read The Strad's guides on How to reduce tension when playing the violin or viola, and 11 stretching ...

  • Primrose
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    William Primrose performs Paganini's Caprice no.24

    2014-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Legendary violist William Primrose performs Paganini's Caprice no.24. The 2014 Primrose International Viola Competition recently took place in Los Angeles, won by 17-year-old Zhanbo Zheng from China. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues ...