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ArticleLisa Batiashvili plays Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto
Lisa Batiashvili, our cover star for the January 2020 issue of The Strad, plays Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in this performance with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra under Gábor Takács-Nagy. The performance took place last September at the 2019 Tsinandali Festival in Tsinandali, Kakheti, Georgia.
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VideoVerona Quartet perform Janáček’s String Quartet no.2 ‘Intimate Letters’ I: Andante
Watch the Verona Quartet perform Janáček’s String Quartet no.2 ‘Intimate Letters’ I: Andante.
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VideoLigeti Quartet perform The Holly and the Ivy by Tom Green
’Exploded Christmas carols to crush the spirit of Noddy Holder’, is how composer Tom Green describes his new collection of five reconfigured seasonal tunes, Solstice Songs, a commission from the Ligeti Quartet. The London-based quartet will perform the new works in a programme alongside Robin Haigh’s String Quartet (2019) on ...
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VideoRostropovich: a 90-minute documentary
A documentary that delves into all aspects of the cellist’s life and career - from his four-day courtship of his wife to that 1968 performance of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto at the Proms, coinciding with the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. With contributions from Rostropovich’s wife Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya, and the ...
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VideoDanish String Quartet: Schnittke Music Video
In this music video, featuring the Danish String Quartet, actor Peter Kirk underlines the quirkiness and darkness in Schnittke’s String Quartet No.3. The video is shot on the island of Møn in south-eastern Denmark.
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VideoPrepare with Nicky: Introduction - Meet Your Tutors
With only 33 days until the Benedetti Sessions - Nicola Benedetti’s series of orchestra-based weekend workshops which aim to address the needs of young musicians and of teachers - the violinist is launching a video a day. And she’s starting by introducing some of the tutors involved. ‘The good news’, ...
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VideoMariss Jansons conducts Rossini’s William Tell Overture
Guest cellist Mischa Meyer performs the opening solo
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VideoKronos Quartet performs One Earth, One People, One Love
Watch the official music video for One Earth, One People, One Love, the final movement of Sun Rings, a 2002 collaboration between Kronos and composer Terry Riley. The first full recording of Sun Rings was released by Nonesuch Records in August.The piece is scored for string quartet, chorus and pre-recorded ...
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VideoSheku Kanneh-Mason recording Elgar at Abbey Road Studios
Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason recording the Elgar Cello Concerto with Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, in June 2019 at Abbey Road Studios. The 20-year-old soloist will release his new album, Elgar, on Decca Classics on 10 January 2020. The recording also includes a new arrangement of Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’ from ...
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FeatureGautier Capuçon plays Bloch to mark anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
The cellist Gautier Capuçon plays the Prière from Ernest Bloch’s ‘from Jewish Life’ at the memorial of the Berlin wall to mark the 30th anniversary of the Fall of Berlin Wall.
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VideoJack Liebeck plays Stuart Hancock concerto cadenza
Stuart Hancock’s album ‘Raptures’, including the Violin Concerto performed by Jack Liebeck, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Lev Parikian, is released on 15 November 2019 on Orchid Classics Read: Violinist Jack Liebeck and composer Stuart Hancock interview each other Read: The Strad Masterclass: Jack Liebeck on Bruch’s ...
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My Space: Stephen Quinney
The Toronto luthier gives a demonstration of his craft in a 2017 episode of the series History in the Making
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VideoTamsin Waley-Cohen plays CPE Bach
Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen and pianist James Ballieu perform the allegretto from CPE Bach’s Violin Sonata in C major (Wq. 73) in a Scala Session recorded on Wednesday 6 November 2019.
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VideoRostropovich plays Bach at the Checkpoint Charlie
This footage from November 1989, two days after the official fall of the Berlin Wall, shows Mstislav Rostropovich giving an impromptu performance of Bach’s cello suites at the Checkpoint C crossing point between East and West Berlin. Read our article ‘Witnesses to the fall’, from the March 2014 issue, ...
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VideoChristian Tetzlaff on recording Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
‘It’s a big process that’s being portrayed, and it takes me with it, and touches me again and again - even after playing it over 330 times.’ So says Christian Tetzlaff on Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, which he has recorded with conductor Robin Ticciati.
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VideoJitka Šuranská performs music inspired by Czech folklore
The Czech violinist and singer, who has died aged 41, was known for her interpretations of Moravian folk songs
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VideoHansheinz Schneeberger plays Paganini aged 91
Schneeberger plays Paganini’s Cantibile with long-time duo partner guitarist Willy Riechsteiner
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VideoPractice with Nicky - How to…Routine
In her first Practice with Nicky video, Nicola Benedetti focuses on building a routine. The violinist says: ‘Over the next couple of months, we’re going to take you through a host of practice tips. I hope there will be something there for everyone! But please let us know if you ...
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VideoHorror in Haddington with the Vision String Quartet
On tour in Scotland the Vision String Quartet spends the night in an old house. But something seems to be wrong…
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VideoThe Opus 76 Quartet play Haydn’s op.76 no.4 ‘Sunrise’
The Kansas City based Opus 76 Quartet here perform one of the works from which they took their name
