All Stravinsky articles – Page 2
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Concert review: Lawrence Power (viola/violin) Héloïse Werner (soprano) Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
Tim Homfray watches the recital at London’s Wigmore Hall on 22 June 2021
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Live-streamed concert review: Chloë Hanslip (violin) Danny Driver (piano)
Tim Homfray attends the virtual recital from London’s Wigmore Hall on 19 April 2021
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Isabelle Faust: Eötvös, Stravinsky
Hungarian composer’s mesmerising musical tribute to Spanish architecture
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Linus Roth: Virtuoso Dances
An upbeat collection of dances for violin and piano to raise the spirits
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News
Boosey & Hawkes launches YouTube contest for string duos
An audio recording of Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne by the winning duo will be synced to the work’s score on Boosey & Hawkes’ monthly YouTube series
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50th anniversary of Stravinsky’s death to be marked by series of events
A number of performances - many of them streamed - will pay tribute to the Russian composer over the next month
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David Nebel: Glass, Stravinsky
A refreshing and highly recommended pairing of 20th-century concertos
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Brinton Averil Smith: Exiles in Paradise
Music by European composers who became Los Angeles neighbours
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Concert review: Isabelle Faust (violin) et al
Tim Homfray hears the violinist and her cohorts at Wigmore Hall, London, on 23 December 2019
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Mischa Maisky, Lily Maisky: 20th-Century Classics
A father–daughter combination achieves some almost miraculous musical moments
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Virtuoso. Works for violin and piano by Britten, Dohnányi, Dvorák, Elgar, Falla, Paganini, Sarasate, Strauss, Stravinsky, Tárrega, Tchaikovsky and Wieniawski
The Strad Issue: July 2016 Description: Kavakos displays his technical prowess in a programme of encore pieces Musicians: Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Enrico Pace (piano) Composer: Britten, Dohnányi, Dvorák, Elgar, Falla, Paganini, Sarasate, Strauss, Stravinsky, Tárrega, Tchaikovsky, ...
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Violinist Yoojin Jang gives winning Mendelssohn and Stravinsky performances at Sendai Competition
Yoojin Jang gives her winning performances of Mendelssohn and Stravinsky violin concertos in the final of the 2016 Sendai International Violin Competition with the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Junichi Hirokami.Read: Yoojin Jang wins Sendai International Violin Competition 2016
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Spectrum. Janácek: Violin Sonata. Kreisler: Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta. Schubert: Violin Sonata in A major D574 ‘Grand Duo’. Stravinsky: Divertimento
The Strad Issue: May 2016Description: Beilman gets under the music’s skin in a dazzling recitalMusicians: Benjamin Beilman (violin) Yekwon Sunwoo (piano)Composer: Janácek; Kreisler; Schubert; StravinskyWorking alongside his regular accompanist Yekwon Sunwoo, Benjamin Beilman immediately draws us into the elusive sound world of Schubert’s D574 Sonata via his ...
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The Ground Beneath Our Feet. Reich: Duet. Bach: Concerto in C minor for Violin and Oboe BWV1060R. Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks. Jacobsen/Aghael: Concerto for Santur, Violin and Orchestra. The Knights: .
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: August 2015Description: East–West fusion from an ensemble that pushes boundariesMusicians: The KnightsComposer: Reich, Bach, Stravinsky, Jacobsen/Aghael, The KnightsThe Knights are an ‘orchestral collective’ based in New York and led by brothers Colin (violin) and Eric (cello) Jacobsen, best known as members of ...
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Shostakovich: Violin Sonata op.134; Unfinished Violin Sonata; Andantino from String Quartet no.4 op.83 (arr. Dmitri Tsyganov). Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (arr. Shostakovich). Braga: La Serenata (a
The Strad Issue: June 2016Description: Shostakovich’s Sonata and some cuttings from the composer’s workbenchMusicians: Sasha Rozhdestvensky (violin) Jeremy Menuhin, Mookie Lee-Menuhin (piano) Ilona Domnich (soprano) Alexandra Sherman (mezzo-soprano)Composer: Shostakovich; Stravinsky; BragaCatalogue Number: FIRST HAND RECORDS FHR 37Shostakovich’s Violin Sonata, written in 1968 as a 60th-birthday present for ...
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Mozart: Violin Sonatas in C major K296 & B flat major K454. Stravinsky: Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss
The Strad Issue: March 2015Description: Fire and ice on display in music by two contrasting composersMusicians: Esther Hoppe (violin) Alasdair Beatson (piano)Composer: Mozart, StravinskyAlasdair Beatson is the more prominent protagonist in the two Mozart sonatas but Esther Hoppe admirably complements his perceptive playing in their various exchanges, ...
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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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Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D major. Arrieu: Violin Concerto no.2 in D minor
The Strad Issue: January 2015Description: Welcome revival of a forgotten violinist in 1950s French radio recordingsMusicians: Jeanne Gautier (violin) RTF National Orchestra/Jacques Pernoo, Eugène BigotComposer: Stravinsky, ArrieuThe marvellous violinist Jeanne Gautier (1898–1974) has long languished in undeserved oblivion. A superb virtuoso who embodied a quintessentially Gallic blend ...
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