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BlogsHow to be successful in an orchestral audition - LSO violinist Maxine Kwok
London Symphony Orchestra first violinist Maxine Kwok offers tips for string candidates on preparing for orchestral auditions in this interview from 2014
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FocusOn the challenge of page-turning
Gerald Elias has spent many years as a professional orchestral violinist – in the Boston SO and Utah Symphony – and has been music director of Salt Lake City’s Vivaldi by Candlelight chamber orchestra since 2004. Here he explores the issue of page-turning - a universal challenge faced by orchestral ...
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FeatureLeadership and diplomacy: how to be a good orchestral concertmaster
A piece from our archive in which former concertmaster John Georgiadis, who died on Tuesday, tells Julian Haylock his memories of the London Symphony Orchestra
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VideoBenedetti Foundation Orchestra play ‘Intermezzo’ from Cavalleria Rusticana
Nicola Benedetti leads the Benedetti Foundation Orchestra
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VideoSilkroad Ensemble performs Kinan Azmeh’s ‘Wedding’ at Tanglewood
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma came up with the idea of Silkroad, formerly named the Silk Road Project, in 1998, inspired by the historical Silk Road trading route that linked China with the West. The Silkroad Ensemble launched in 2000, comprising musicians from countries along this route. ‘We started as a group ...
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VideoKyung Wha Chung plays Dvořák’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra
In this tribute concert to Riccardo Muti from the 1980s, the violinist Kyung Wha Chung plays Dvořák’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Op 11, with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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VideoLisa Batiashvili and Daniel Barenboim record Tchaikovsky and Sibelius - album trailer
In this behind-the-scenes film, The Strad’s January 2020 issue cover star Lisa Batiashvili describes recording the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos with Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin
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FocusWhat is the secret behind the Royal Danish Orchestra’s string sound?
The Royal Danish Orchestra has been adding to its collection of fine stringed instruments for centuries – but there is revolution and evolution behind its string sound, which is unmistakable, finds Andrew Mellor
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FocusWhy do so many orchestras lag behind the beat?
Even under the best conductors and in the finest orchestras, players tend to drag behind the baton. Evan Johnson looks at the reasons for this universal phenomenon
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Premium ❘ Feature6 ways to avoid an angry soloist
Growing numbers of musicians are speaking out against bad audience behaviour, finds Charlotte Smith
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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: Christian Tetzlaff on Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
At the end of last year violinist Christian Tetzlaff made his second official recording of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in two live performances, resulting in an interpretation much more in keeping with his own personal understanding of the work
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Feature13 rules of desk partner etiquette
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh offered these tips for a harmonious musical relationship in our September 2004 issue
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Premium ❘ DebateHistorically informed performance on modern instruments is misguided
Historically informed performance is all well and good, argues Julian Haylock, but continuing to play on modern instruments just results in the worst of both worlds
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NewsConcertgebouw launches European youth orchestra project
The Amsterdam based orchestra is inviting nominations and applications for RCO Young, which starts in the summer of 2019
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NewsSimon Rattle announces music academy for east London
Twenty string players will be recruited from the area in the scheme’s first year
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Premium ❘ FeatureAntonio Pappano: What conductors want from their string sections
A regular, nice, beautiful sound doesn’t interest the music director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, he told The Strad in this interview from 2008
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NewsDirector of Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra stabbed with a fork
Mark Turner is recovering in hospital after serious eye injury
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NewsLaunch of $1.8m initiative to diversify American orchestras
National Alliance for Audition Support forms to tackle under-representation of Black and Latino musicians in US orchestras
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BlogsLife on the front desk: the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' concertmaster
On the day of the BBCNOW’s 90th anniversary, Lesley Hatfield offers some thoughts on leading and life in the orchestra
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FocusBuilding a string sound from scratch at the Estonian Festival Orchestra
In the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado established an ensemble with its own sound character in just a few years. How can an orchestra, and its signature string section, form a distinctive sound in such little time? Paavo Järvi’s orchestra project at the Pärnu Music Festival in Estonia offers some ...
