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BlogsPaganini’s Mosè Fantasy: bel canto and virtuosity on only one string
Violinist Tomás Cotik provides a tutorial and performance on the famous work that only requires one string, ahead of an album release comprising Paganini’s works
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BlogsColin Alexander: from resembling to reassembling the human voice on the cello
Colin Alexander reflects on what it means for a cello to sound like a voice, in light of new transcriptions of vocal works for the Early Chorus Cello Ensemble
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VideoA cello distortion rock-up: Zoë Martlew performs ‘G-lude’
When a cello rocks out and sounds like an electric guitar: the cellist and composer shares some detailed insights on the extreme and experimental techniques at play in her work
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VideoBach’s Sixth Suite Prelude on five-stringed baroque cello
William Skeen shares an authentic Bach performance, ahead of appearances for Seattle Bach Festival this weekend
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VideoNew video: Yo-Yo Ma and Icelandic choir perform ‘Earth Hymn’
The performance of the work by Viktor Orri Árnason is a plea to the world from the edge of a changing planet
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Video‘These pieces are tied to our upbringing as a quartet’ - The Novo Quartet presents its debut album
The Danish quartet tells The Strad what it learnt and loved about recording TRACK 1, which features Nielsen’s String Quartet no.1, Shostakovich’s String Quartet no.8 and a world premiere by Matias Vestergård
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VideoFive years on: the Sacconi Quartet’s pandemic-era performance of Jonathan Dove’s ‘Out of Time’
The Strad offers an exclusive sneak peek at the Sacconi Quartet’s 4K remastered film of the work, ahead of Friday’s general release
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BlogsTonia Ko’s ‘Soothe a Tooth’ performed by violist Stephen Upshaw
The violist additionally shares his thoughts on the work, described as ’an exercise in not trying to beautify every sound but to admit vulnerability’ which vividly captures the anxiety of 2020 and life in lockdown
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VideoViolinist Maya Magub celebrates Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s 150th anniversary with ‘Valse Mauresque’
Magub performs alongside pianist Matthew Schellhorn, on a work that features on their new album of Coleridge Taylor’s Four Characteristic Waltzes
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VideoSignum Quartet performs Priaulx Rainier’s Scherzo
The work features on the quartet’s new album A Dark Flaring, which spotlights works by South African composers
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VideoCellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia performs his own composition, ‘Ouróboros’
Alongside pianist Naoko Sonoda, the cellist performs a work that explores the ancient Egyptian and Greek symbol for cycles of life, death and rebirth
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VideoCellist Sterling Elliott performs Kevin Day’s ‘Gymnopédie I’
Elliott and pianist Wynona Wang perform the ‘dreamy and otherworldly’ work for the Lincoln Center’s Sidewalk Sessions
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VideoAt the World’s Edge: Huw Watkins String Trio no.2
The release of the recording follows the launch of the Chicago edition of the New Zealand-born At the World’s Edge Festival, which aims to connect the creative communities of Chicago, the US and New Zealand
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VideoWatch: Alisa Weilerstein performs The Recovery of Paradise: Blackford Cello Concerto
Weilerstein performs the third movement with the Czech Philharmonic and conductor Tomáš Netopil
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VideoJust Biber: a new video from violinist Rachel Podger
An exclusive look at the featured single from Podger’s new album, out 4 July
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VideoNew video: Lembit Beecher’s ‘Green Line’ performed by cellist Karen Ouzounian
The work features solo cello and recorded audio of Ouzounian’s mother recalling memories from the Lebanese Civil War
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VideoWATCH: Antonio Mormone International Prize finals – day four
The finalists take turns performing the same sonata on the same historical instrument
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VideoWATCH: Antonio Mormone International Prize finals - day three
Violinists Elli Choi and Anna Im take to the stage in chamber music and recital performances
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VideoWATCH: Antonio Mormone International Prize finals - day two
Violinists Elli Choi and Hawjich Elders take to the stage in recital and chamber music performances
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VideoWATCH: Antonio Mormone International Prize finals - day one
Violinists Anna Im and Hawjich Elders take to the stage in chamber music and recital performances
