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ArticleCellist Leonard Rose performs Beethoven with pianist Glenn Gould
Leonard Rose and Glenn Gould perform the first movement from Beethoven's Third Cello Sonata in 1960. Rose is one of the inspirational teachers featured in The Strad's September issue education focus, out now. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of ...
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Blogs12 words of wisdom on practice and performance by Burton Kaplan
The Manhattan School of Music pedagogue offered the following guidance to violinist Ariane Todes when she attended his Magic Mountain Music Farm Practice Marathon Retreat in upstate New York this summer
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BlogsHow to find a new member for your string quartet
The Wihan Quartet's fist violinist Leos ?epický describes the process of replacing the ensemble's longtime viola player
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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov performs Bazzini's Dance of the Goblins
In celebration of Maxim Vengerov's 40th birthday today (20 August 2014), here is the virtuoso violinist in a showstopping performance of Bazzini's The Dance of the Goblins and Khachaturian's Sabre Dance with pianist Itamar Golan in Amsterdam in 1994.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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ArticleCellist David Finckel on smooth bow changes
'Dorothy DeLay said, 'I never saw a bow change that I couldn't hear'. And she's right.' Cellist David Finckel talks about how to achieve smooth and fluid bow changes. Read The Strad's 6 tips for smooth bow changes and David Finckel's 10 habits of successful ...
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ArticleVadim Repin conducts and performs Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto
Violinist Vadim Repin’s Trans-Siberian Arts Festival in Novosibirsk suffered a last-minute no show in April, when conductor Valery Gergiev was delayed in New York. Rather than cancel the concert, artistic director Repin decided to conduct and play Shostakovich's Violin Concerto no.1 himself – the first time such ...
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ArticleMinnesota Orchestra’s Roger Frisch plays violin during brain surgery
Minnesota Orchestra associate concertmaster Roger Frisch believed that his career might be over when he began to suffer with essential tremors, which affected his ability to bow smoothly. A common condition, the tremors are caused when the part of the brain which controls movement misfires, sending erroneous signals ...
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FocusHow to phrase feedback get the best from your student
Are the words teachers use helping or harming their students? Femke Colborne learns from psychologists and string instructors that the way feedback is phrased can dramatically affect a student's progress
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FocusHow to use creativity and logic to help your practice
Shelly Tramposh explains how you can practise more effectively by combining the interpretative flair of an artist with the problem-solving skills of an engineer
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BlogsPlaying with less emotion can create more beautiful music
Putting in more effort does not necessarily mean greater improvement, writes violin professor and soloist Andrej Bielow
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ArticleViolinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen on practising Bach and Brahms
'I play the passage slowly at first, without vibrato, in order to concentrate on bow distribution, speed and developing a more natural line.' Violinist Tamsin Waley Cohen, who has written a Practice Diary for The Strad's August 2014 issue, gives an insight into how she practises ...
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ArticleGidon Kremer performs Kreisler's Liebesleid
To mark the official centenary of the beginning of the First World War today, here's violinist Gidon Kremer performing Kreisler's Liebesleid with pianist Martha Argerich. Kreisler fought and was wounded in the first year of the Great War, and subsequently performed concerts throughout America, despite prejudice against ...
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ArticleLisa Batiashvili performs Bach's Concerto for Violin and Oboe
Violinist Lisa Batiashvili, who has written 5 tips for playing Bach for The Strad's website, performs the composer's Concerto for Violin and Oboe, BWV1060R with her husband, oboist François Leleux, and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Christian Zacharias. Subscribe to The Strad or download our ...
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BlogsSally Beamish on writing her war-themed Violin Concerto
With the work's imminent London premiere by Anthony Marwood at the BBC Proms on 1 August, the composer remembers its ‘difficult birth'
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ArticleHenschel Quartet performs Beethoven's String Quartet no.9
The Henschel Quartet, which has contributed a masterclass feature on Schulhoff's Five Pieces for String Quartet to The Strad's August 2014 issue, performs the first movement of Beethoven's 'Razumovsky' String Quartet no.9 in Tokyo. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of ...
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ArticleViolinist Joshua Bell busks in a Washington DC metro station
It's been a few years since star violinist Joshua Bell performed Bach incognito in a Washington DC metro station - an experiment organised by the Washington Post to discover 'in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? ...
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ArticleTamsin Waley-Cohen performs Vaughan-Williams's The Lark Ascending
Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen, who has written a Practice Diary for The Strad's August 2014 issue, performs Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending with The Orchestra of the Swan. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single ...
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ArticlePaul Tortelier gives masterclass on Elgar's Cello Concerto
French cellist Paul Tortelier gives a televised masterclass on Elgar's Cello Concerto in 1974.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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BlogsLorin Maazel – a personal tribute by New York Philharmonic principal cellist Carter Brey
The orchestral musician remembers the great conductor, who died this week
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ArticleDouble bassist Gary Karr performs Paganini's Three Variations
Double bassist Gary Karr, who had written about the need for orchestral conductors' attitudes to change towards his instrument, gives a comical performance of Paganini's Three Variations, originally composed for 'that puny, small, tiny little instrument, the violin' with pianist Harmon Lewis. Subscribe to The Strad or ...
