All Violinists articles
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VideoKyung Wha Chung plays Dvořák’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra
In this tribute concert to Riccardo Muti from the 1980s, the violinist Kyung Wha Chung plays Dvořák’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Op 11, with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
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VideoChristian Tetzlaff and friends from the Berlin Philharmonic play Schubert’s Octet
The full concert can be seen here: https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/concert/20466/?a=youtube&c=true
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VideoJanine Jansen and friends play Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence
The list of musicians for this performance of Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence comprises: violinists Janine Jansen and Vilde Frang, violists Julian Rachlin and Lawrence Power, and cellists Nicolas Altstaedt and Jens Peter Maintz.
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VideoLisa Batiashvili and Daniel Barenboim record Tchaikovsky and Sibelius - album trailer
In this behind-the-scenes film, The Strad’s January 2020 issue cover star Lisa Batiashvili describes recording the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos with Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin
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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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VideoWith Nicky: Practice and Prepare Introduction
Nicola Benedetti offers tips on how to organise your time, how to stay concentrated and what to do with the time you have
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Premium ❘ FeaturePerfect 5ths
British violinist Rodney Friend has spent many years formulating his method for achieving a relaxed left-hand position. Here, he shares his voyage of discovery with Charlotte Smith
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Premium ❘ FeatureA teacher for all
Kató Havas, the celebrated and much-loved Hungarian violinist and pedagogue, died on 31 December 2018 aged 98. Five former colleagues and students remember her important and generous influence on their own playing and teaching
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VideoPortrait of Anne Akiko Meyers aged 12 in 1983
‘When Anne was born we used to play Beethoven’s Violin Concerto when we fed her so that she would naturally love music,’ says Anne Akiko Meyers’s mother in this profile of the violinist from 1983. Includes footage of the pedagogue Alice Schoenfeld who died in May this year. Read: ...
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Premium ❘ FeaturePassing the Torch
Expert encouragement in their early years helped turn the Belcea Quartet into one of today’s most formidable chamber ensembles. Twenty-five years after they started out, they talk to Tom Stewart about passing on their experience to the next generation – as well as continuing to gain knowledge themselves
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ReviewLisa Jacobs: Nielsen, Halvorsen, Svendsen
An impressive attempt to get to the heart of this Dane’s radical music
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Premium ❘ FeatureEduard Melkus: Testament to Versatility
Austrian violinist and violist Eduard Melkus turned 90 last year. Tully Potter speaks to colleagues, former pupils and the man himself – and outlines a far more diverse and varied career than his reputation for early music performance would suggest
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ReviewJanet Sung: Sung Sessions: Edge of Youth
The programming is the standout feature of this debut album
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ReviewDaniel Röhn: The Golden Violin
Sadly more gilt than gold in a nevertheless attractive programme of oldies
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Concert review: Viktoria Mullova (Violin) Philharmonia Orchestra/Paavo Järvi
Tim Homfray went to the Royal Festival Hall concert on 11 May 2019
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Concert review: Leonidas Kavakos (Violin) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Myung-Whun Chung
Janet Banks saw the event at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam on 19 May 2019
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ReviewConcert review: Cho-Liang Lin (Violin) Jon Kimura Parker (Piano)
Bruce Hodges attended the recital at Lincoln Center’s Rose Studio on 9 May 2019
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ReviewAugustin Hadelich: Brahms, Ligeti
Two hugely contrasting concertos hold no terrors for a superb player
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ReviewMarietta Kratz et al: Loewe
A song composer successfully turns his hand to string chamber music
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ReviewBook review: The Violin in 5ths: Developing Intonation and Sound
Anne Inglis reviews Rodney Friend’s inspiring volume
