All violin articles – Page 16
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NewsThe Strad June 2016 issue is out now
We investigate the relationship between Stradivari's purfling corners and his violin forms
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GalleryFrom the Archive: A violin by Giuseppe Gagliano of Naples, 1785
This illustration of a violin by Giuseppe Gagliano was published in The Strad, March 1978. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:The handsome Gagliano illustrated here is by Giuseppe, the second son of Nicolo whose models he followed. For some years Giuseppe shared a workshop with ...
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BlogsYehudi Menuhin's 'Khevenhüller' Stradivarius violin copy by Emile Français
The instrument was made expressly for the great violinist for his 19th birthday, writes Stewart Pollens
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Article13-year-old violinist Eduard Kollert performs Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen
13-year-old violinist Eduard Kollert, who yesterday won the Junior first prize at the 2016 Novosibirsk International Violin Competition in Russia, performs Sarasate's Zigeunerweisen at the International ‘Nutcracker’ Contest for Young Musicians in Moscow in 2015. Kollert is a student of Professor Zakhar Bron, who was chair of ...
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ArticlePhotographing a 299-year-old Stradivarius violin
After each shot I turn the violin 30 degrees and take another picture. I have to turn the violin to shoot it in 12 different angles. It's all about precision'What does it take to photograph the qualities of a Stradivari violin? Photographer Søren Jonesen takes us through the ...
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ArticleDavid Garrett tries out Stradivari and Guarneri 'del Gesù' violins
My favourite violin maker is 'del Gesù', but in this acoustic the Strad is the best. It's tough for me to admit that, but this instrument has all of the right qualities' David Garrett tries out several violins by Stradivari and Guarneri 'del Gesù' at Cremona's Museo ...
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NewsViolinist Amalia Hall wins Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artists Competition
The New Zealand musician has won both the String section and the overall award
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GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by C.F. Gand, Paris, c.1820
This illustration of a violin by Charles François Gand was published in The Strad, September 1977. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:Charles François Gand is the most important member of a family of talented French makers who, after Lupot, ranks next to Pique and Vuillaume. ...
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ArticleViolinist Rachel Barton Pine performs her own Happy Birthday variations
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine performs her own virtuoso arrangement of Happy Birthday - 'Introduction, Theme and Variations on the Birthday Song' - for the Lake Forest Symphony's 75th anniversary gala in November 2007. Read: American Airlines pilot denies Rachel Barton Pine access to cabin with her violin ...
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ArticleRavi Shankar, Alla Rakha and Yehudi Menuhin Trio
Ravi Shankar: 'Our teaching is based on oral tradition; our music is not written down.'Yehudi Menuhin: 'That's why it's alive!'Violinist Yehudi Menuhin discusses and plays Indian music with friend and colleague Ravi Shankar.The Strad's May 2016 Menuhin Centenary issue is out now – download through The Strad App ...
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ArticleViolinist Yehudi Menuhin on the importance of practice
Anything that one wants to do really, one must do every day. It should be easy to the artist and natural as flying is to a bird' Violinist Yehudi Menuhin talks about the importance of practice. The interview is taken from 'The Menuhin Century' boxed set of ...
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ArticleJames Ehnes performs on the Guarneri 'del Gesù' 'Lord Wilton' violin
James Ehnes performs Tchaikovsky's Melody, op.42 no.3 on the Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesù' 'Lord Wilton' violin, 1742. The instrument was one of several great Cremonese violins associated with Yehudi Menuhin, who acquired it in 1978 from Jacques Francais in New York. On his death in 1999 it ...
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NewsFresh from signing to Warner Classics, violinist Kyung Wha Chung to open Verbier Festival
The 68-year-old Korean returned to performing in 2010 following a finger injury
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News2016 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition names joint first prize winners
Led by president Nikolaj Znaider, the contest took place from 16-22 April in Denmark
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ArticleViolinist Frank Peter Zimmermann performs Bach's Chaconne
Frank Peter Zimmermann talks in The Strad's April 2016 issue about revisiting the Mozart Violin Concertos on disc, 20 years after his breakthrough recording - download on desktop computer or buy in print Read The Strad’s 7 ways to play perfect chords and see how other great violinists tackled the ...
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ArticleViolinist Anne Akiko Meyers performs with broken foot
Anne Akiko Meyers suffered a fall on Friday while walking with her children, just a few hours before she was due to give her second of three performances of Mason Bates’s Violin Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington.The violinist, who believed at ...
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News2016 Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition names three finalists
Led by president Nikolaj Znaider, the contest takes place from 16-22 April in Denmark
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NewsNew England Conservatory receives ‘Joachim-Ma’ Stradivarius violin from Si-Hon Ma estate
The 1714 instrument belonged to violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim from 1849 to 1890
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BlogsIt’s the taking part that counts’: Are competitions always defined by results?
This year’s Menuhin Competition promoted a ‘non-competitive atmosphere of learning and exchange’, but how true was this for the performers, asks Charlotte Smith
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NewsDocumentary charts friendship between Holocaust survivor and schoolgirl through donated violin
Joe’s Violin’ premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this month
