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Violinist Jascha Heifetz performs Mozart aged eleven
Legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz performs Mozart's Gavotte in G from Idomeneo, transcribed by Leopold Auer, aged just eleven. The performance was recorded on wax cylinder in 1912. Read The Strad's first mention of the young Heifetz, published in October 1912. Subscribe to The Strad or download our ...
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Jascha Heifetz performs Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto
Legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz makes short work of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto first movement. 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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Violinist Philippe Graffin performs Prokofiev's Five Melodies
The Strad's February 2015 cover star, violinist Philippe Graffin, performs Prokofiev's Five Melodies op.35 with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Valentin Doni.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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Debate
The media was too quick to condemn Kyung Wha Chung's reaction to a coughing audience
Our focus has been wrong all along, argues Toby Deller
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Violinist Stéphane Grappelli performs 'It Had To Be You'
Legendary jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli performs 'It had To Be You' with guitarists Martin Taylor and Louis Stewart, and double bassist Jack Sewing in The Grand Opera House, Belfast in April 1986.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To ...
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Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs Stravinsky encore
Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja performs her own cadenza improvisation for Stravinsky's Violin Concerto with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, featuring violinist Alejandro Rutkauskas.Kopatchinskaja has written a Practice Diary in The Strad's January 2015 issue, out now.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day ...
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Violinist Josef Suk performs Dvorák's Violin Concerto
Violinist Josef Suk performs the first movement of his great grandfather Antonín Dvorák's Violin Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.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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Violinist Daniel Hope performs Vivaldi's 'Winter' Recomposed
Violinist Daniel Hope performs 'Winter' from Max Richter's 'Recomposed' version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Orchestra L'arte del Mondo.Hope contributes a Masterclass feature on the traditional version of Vivaldi's 'Winter' in the January 2015 issue of The Strad, out now.Read Hope's 6 Pieces of Advice for Violinists.Subscribe to ...
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Cellist Kevin Fox performs Katy Perry's Roar alongside a live tiger
I don't think there's anything that can prepare you for the size of a full-size tiger'Canadian cellist Kevin Fox performs pop star Katy Perry's 'Roar' using a looping pedal board while sitting next to a live tiger.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of ...
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Violinist Sarah Chang performs Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen
Violinist Sarah Chang gives a show-stopping performance of Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Plácido Domingo. 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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Violinist Joshua Bell performs Summer from Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Violinist Joshua Bell performs the Summer Presto from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.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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Mischa Maisky performs Haydn's Cello Concerto no.1
Mischa Maisky performs the third movement Finale from Haydn's Cello Concerto no.1 in C with Kremerata Baltica in November 2006.Watch Maisky in a less conventional performance of AC/DC's Thunderstruck with 2Cellos.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase ...
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Blogs
Was violinist Kyung Wha Chung right to berate a coughing child during her recital?
The artist was reportedly unimpressed at the amount of audience noise during her London comeback this week, writes Charlotte Smith
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Cellist Tim Hugh performs Tishchenko's First Cello Concerto
London Symphony Orchestra principal cellist Tim Hugh performs Tishchenko's First Cello Concerto with the LSO conducted by Valery Gergiev.Hugh has written a Practice Diary for The Strad's December 2014 issue, out now.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To ...
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Violinist Stéphane Grappelli performs As Time Goes By
This week the famous piano on which Sam plays 'As Time Goes By' in the 1942 film Casablanca was sold for $3.4m. In this clip French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli puts his own stylish take on the classic song.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
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Violinist Kyung Wha Chung is interviewed aged 22
All of my siblings started on piano † but I didn't take to the instrument very well...'A young Kyung Wha Chung, The Strad's December 2014 issue cover star, is interviewed about her background and musical interests prior to a performance of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with the London Symphony ...
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Despite its growing reputation, we must still do more to promote the viola
British violist Rosalind Ventris looks at the instrument’s history and asks how we can develop a wider appreciation in the future
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Janine Jansen and Julian Rachlin perform Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante
Janine Jansen and Julain Rachlin perform the solo violin and viola parts of the Presto from Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, K364 with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia conducted by Victor Pablo Perez. Rachlin was this week named principal guest conductor of the Royal Northern Sinfonia.Subscribe to The Strad or ...
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Violinist James Ehnes performs Elgar's La Capricieuse
Violinist James Ehnes, who is featured in The Strad's November 2014 issue, out now, demonstrates impressive bow control in Elgar's La Capricieuse, played on Pietro Guarneri 'Shapiro' violin, 1698.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues ...
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Natalie Clein performs and discusses Elgar's Cello Concerto
We're very lucky as cellists. We don't have as many concertos as violinists or pianists, but when a number of composers decided to write for us, they poured their heart out and wrote some of their best works'Natalie Clein discusses and performs Elgar's Cello Concerto with the South ...