Conductor and early music pioneer Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who announced his retirement on Saturday 5 December, conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Mozart's Violin Concerto no.3 in G major K216, with soloist Gidon Kremer.
Violinist Ray Chen will give a Masterclass on the first movement of this concerto in the January 2016 issue of The Strad, complete with an annotated version of the score. Subscribe here to receive your copy
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The concertmaster of Concentus Musicus Wien for 32 years, she co-founded the ensemble with her husband, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
The cellist appears alongside the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra and its music director Stuart Malina
Philharmonia musicians perform one of Finland’s most popular Christmas carols, Jean Sibelius’s Julvisa
Double bassist Théotime Voisin and pianist Maurice van Schoonhoven perform an arrangement of the popular opera overture in a tribute to the bel canto tradition
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The work has been arranged and recorded for double bass by James Oesi for his latest single release
The film follows the ground-breaking career of bassist Orin O’Brien, who joined the orchestra in 1966
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