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ArticleNikolaj Znaider performs Sibelius's Violin Concerto
The Strad's March 2015 cover star, Nikolaj Znaider, performs Sibelius's Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Juraj Valcuha in October 2011. The violinist talks about the importance of practising Bach and basics in his blog for The Strad. Subscribe to The Strad or download our ...
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Article2Cellos perform Hysteria by Muse
2Cellos † Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser † perform their arrangement of Hysteria by rock band Muse, filmed in a mental hospital in Pula, Croatia. Watch the duo perform their arrangement of AC/DC's Thunderstruck with fellow cellists Mischa Maisky and Giovanni Sollima at Cello Biennale Amsterdam 2014. ...
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ArticleDavid Oistrakh performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
Legendary violinist David Oistrakh gives a full-bodied performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Gennadi Roshdestwenski in 1963. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov on blending your sound with other instruments
You have to forget sometimes that you play the violin. Use it to express the sound of the music and to integrate with the orchestra'Violinist Maxim Vengerov gives a masterclass on Britten’s Violin Concerto at the Royal Academy of Music, London. The full 50-minute video is available to ...
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BlogsViolinist Joshua Bell on the art of conducting
In 2011 the Grammy Award-winning artist became music director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, where he conducts from the concertmaster’s chair
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ArticleJoshua Bell performs Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Joshua Bell, who talks to The Strad about the art of conducting, performs and directs Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for the Pharos Arts Foundation in Nicosia, Cyprus.The Strad's March 2015 issue, out now, investigates the increasing number of string players ...
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BlogsViolinist Nikolaj Znaider on the importance of practising basics
The Strad’s March 2015 cover star advocates shorter bursts of more concentrated practice
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ArticleNikolaj Znaider performs Bach's Partita no.2 Sarabande
The Strad's March 2015 cover star, Nikolaj Znaider, performs the Sarabande from Bach's Solo Violin Partita no.2.The violinist talks about the importance of practising Bach and basics in his blog for The Strad.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. ...
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ArticlePatricia Kopatchinskaja performs Manuel de Falla and Heinz Holliger
Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs Manuel de Falla's 'Jota' from Suite Populaire Espagnole and Heinz Holliger's Das Kleine Irgendwas, which features spoken dialogue and an array of vocalisations, in November 2014.Kopatchinskaja contributes a Practice Diary to The Strad's January issue.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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FocusDid early string players use continuous vibrato?
Contrary to current thinking, a light vibrato was the order of the day for 18th-century musicians, asserts Beverly Jerold
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ArticleViolist Yuri Bashmet on rubato
Rubato can only be effective if you work within the structure of a clear beat' Violist Yuri Bashmet describes how best to use rubato as part of a masterclass on Shostakovich's Sonata for Viola and Piano, recorded at the Verbier Festival Academy. The full 123-minute video is ...
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ArticleMaxim Vengerov on Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
One note of wider vibrato can ruin the purity of the whole line...'Violinist Maxim Vengerov gives a masterclass on Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Playing the solo part is Aya Sanada. The full 48-minute video is available to buy as a download or ...
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ArticleSalomon Quartet performs Haydn
The Salomon Quartet — violinists Simon Standage and Catherine Martin, violist Adam Romer and cellist Andrew Skidmore — gives a period performance of Haydn's String Quartet op.71 no.2.Royal Academy of Music professor of Baroque violin Simon Standage contributes a Technique article on bow control and son filé to ...
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ArticleBrodsky Quartet performs God Only Knows with Elvis Costello
The Brodsky Quartet teams with singer-songwriter Elvis Costello to perform a very different arrangement of The Beach Boys song God Only Knows.Brodsky violist Paul Cassidy writes a Practice Diary on preparing for recording the Zemlinsky quartets in The Strad's February 2015 issue, out now.Subscribe to The Strad or ...
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ArticleItzhak Perlman talks about Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
There are two types of difficulty: technical difficulty, which you can solve when you practise, and then, of course, discomfort. The Tchaikovsky is uncomfortable to play - no matter how much you practise it.' Itzhak Perlamn talks about Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and demonstrates some passages. Watch Perlman talking ...
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GallerySimon Rattle conducts the first Young Orchestra for London
As part of the Berlin Philharmonic’s week-long London residency in February 2015, the Barbican and Southbank Centres joined forces with the London Symphony Orchestra to launch a new mixed-ability Young Orchestra for London.The ensemble comprised 100 students aged between 11 and 21, of Grade 3 standard and above, ...
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FocusFree sheet music: Joachim's Violin Romance in B flat edited by Itzhak Rashkovsky
Royal College of Music professor Rashkovsky offers advice on recreating the spirit of the great playera in this charming piece by the 19th-century virtuoso. Download the score as two PDFs at the bottom of the article
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ArticleChristopher Walken shares a Pablo Casals anecdote in the film A Late Quartet
Casals emphasised the good stuff. He encouraged. As for the rest, leave that to the morons, who judge by counting faults. 'I can be grateful,' he said, 'for one singular phrase, one transcendent moment''Christopher Walken describes a meeting with the great cellist Pablo Casals during a scene in ...
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ArticleMaxwell Quartet performs György Kurtág's 12 Microludes
The Maxwell String Quartet plays György Kurtág's 12 Microludes, which the ensemble performed in concert at London's Purcell Room on 5 January - read the review in The Strad's April 2015 issue, out in March.Hungarian composer György Kurtág recently received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in ...
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ArticleSoundpainting: a method of structuring improvisation
Walter Thompson, the inventor of Soundpainting, demonstrates his method for structuring improvisation with the Walter Thompson Orchestra in France, September 2011. Read more about the live composition sign language in The Strad's February 2015 issue, out now. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
