All Improve your playing articles – Page 42
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ArticleIvry Gitlis performs Kreisler's Liebesleid aged 89
Violinist Ivry Gitlis gives a wonderfully individual performance of Kreisler's Liebesleid at the Järvi Festival, conducted by Paavo Järvi, in August 2011. The performance showcases a particularly warm chemistry between conductor and soloist. Read 8 opinions on performance and career by violinist Ivry Gitlis
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ArticleViolinist Gil Shaham gives Mozart masterclass
Can you play that with twice as much bow? OK, now twice as much again!' Violinist Gil Shaham gives a masterclass on Mozart's Violin Concerto no.5 at the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts. (Bear with the recording - at the half-way point, the camera angle and sound ...
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ArticleGary Hoffman gives Chopin Cello Sonata masterclass
It's possible play with a variety of ups and downs in the line, and to connect your musical ideas' Gary Hoffman gives a masterclass on Chopin's Cello Sonata at the Curtis Institute of Music. Read 6 practice and interpretation tips by cellist Gary Hoffman.
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ArticleViolinist Viktoria Mullova performs Prokofiev's Second Concerto
Viktoria Mullova performs the second movement of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto no.2 conducted by Jeffrey Tate. The violinist is releasing an all-Prokofiev album, including the Second Concerto, this week.
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ArticleViolinist Nemanja Radulović performs Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy
Nemanja Radulović, who has been named Violin Newcomer of the Year at the 2015 ECHO Klassik awards, performs Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra at Thétre Antique d'Orange in France. The 30-year-old Serbian signed an international contract with DG at the beginning of 2014. ...
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ArticleRoby Lakatos performs Brahms's Hungarian Dance no.5
Gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos puts his unique stamp on Brahms's Fifth Hungarian Dance.Lakatos gives a guide to gypsy fusion playing in The Strad's September 2015 issue, out now - download through The Strad App
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ArticleHappy Birthday violinist Maxim Vengerov
Violinist Maxim Vengerov is given a birthday surprise during a performance in Amsterdam in 1994.Watch Vengerov giving a showstopping performance of Bazzini's Dance of the Goblins with pianist Itamar Golan from the same concert.
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ArticleArnold Schwarzenegger the violinist
Movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger gives a fairly convincing impression of playing bluegrass violin in this short clip from the 1976 film 'Stay Hungry'.Watch actors Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany 'playing' the violin and cello respectively in the film Master and Commander.
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ArticleViolinist Ray Chen gives up bow staccato masterclass
Violinist Ray Chen shares his technique for mastering up bow staccato - making use of tremolo.Read The Strad's 6 ways to improve your staccato.Watch Ray Chen performing Ysaÿe’s Solo Sonata no.6 at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium in 2009 – which he later won.
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FocusAsk the Experts: playing in cello thumb position
Strad readers submit their problems and queries about string playing, teaching or making to a panel of experts
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DebateThe motivation to practise should come from the student - not the parent or teacher
Enforcing a regime is never a good idea, says Da Capo Music founder Jane Cutler
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ArticleJi Young Lim performs Mozart at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition 2015
Ji Young Lim performs Mozart's Fourth Violin Concerto at the 2015 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels - where she took home the €25,000 first prize.Ji Young Lim is one of five recent winners of international string competitions who talk about their strategies for success in The ...
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ArticleCellist Myles Jordan discusses bow changes
In The Strad's September 2015 issue, cellist Myles Jordan gives a detailed analysis of bow changes, particularly focusing on how mastering the collé change gives a seamless transition. Here he gives an audio–visual demonstration.
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ArticleViolinist Jascha Heifetz performs Hora Staccato
Jascha Heifetz demonstrates impeccable bow control in up- and down-bow staccato in his arrangement of Dinicu's Hora Staccato. Read The Strad's 6 ways to improve your staccato.
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ArticleNicola Benedetti performs Shostakovich's Gadfly Romance at the Proms
Violinist Nicola Benedetti, The Strad's September 2015 issue cover star, performs the Romance from Shostakovich's Gadfly Suite with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Last Night of the Proms 2012 in London.Watch Benedetti's bow go flying during a rehearsal with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Edinburgh.Subscribe to ...
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ArticleCellist Austin Huntington performs Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso
Cellist Austin Huntington performs Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso with pianist Daniel Schlosberg at the age of 17.Huntington, now 21, was recently appointed principal cellist of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click ...
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ArticleCan classical music stimulate greater milk production in cows?
Usually I refuse to play in front of an audience that eats while listening, but I can make an exception for cows. Especially because they do not speak during a concert'As the countdown begins to this year's Cremona Mondomusica trade fair in Cremona, Italy (September 25-27, 2015), CremonaFiere ...
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ArticleNorwegian Chamber Orchestra dances its way through Grieg
The Norwegian Chamber Orchestra gives a choreographed performance of the Gavotte from Grieg's Holberg Suite at the Norwegian Opera in 2012.Read The Strad’s article, ‘Playing by Heart’, about the increasing number of orchestras performing from memory in the August 2015 issue, out now.Subscribe to The Strad or download ...
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ArticleViolinist David Garrett performs Mozart aged 14
A barely recognisable David Garrett gives an assured performance of the third movement of Mozart's Third Violin Concerto at the age of 14 in 1994 with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne conducted by Heinrich Schiff. Watch the violinist performing Tartini’s Devil’s Trill Sonata. Subscribe to The Strad ...
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ArticleViolinist Roman Totenberg performs Szymanowski aged 90
Violin soloist and teacher Roman Totenberg performs Szymanowski's Concerto no.1 with the Boston University Symphony Orchestra in February 2001 in celebration of his 90th birthday. Totenberg died at the age of 101 in 2012 and taught at the university up to his death.The 1734 'Ames' Stradivarius, which was ...
