By Greg Cahill | From the March-April 2021 issue of Strings magazine Father-and-son Israeli luthiers Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein founded the Violins of Hope project to restore stringed instruments that had been played by Jewish musicians before and during the…
By Laurence Vittes | From the March-April 2021 issue of Strings magazine The deeply personal nature of Schubert’s enormous output of songs provides a compelling reason to set the composer’s chamber music into the story of his life by programming…
By Miranda Wilson | From the March-April 2021 issue of Strings magazine Falling Out of Time, Osvaldo Golijov’s long-awaited return to composition after more than a decade’s recording silence, is a song cycle on poetic texts by the Israeli writer…
This new sheet music review discusses Six Variations with Coda on a Theme of Beethoven for violin & piano by Böhm, Clement, Hellmesberger, St. Lubin, Mayseder & Schuppanzigh
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This new sheet music for Bartók’s famous Romanian Folk Dancesfor viola and piano by Kim Kashkashian closely follows Székely’s famed violin version.
This sheet music of Stravinsky;'s Suite Italienne arranged by Kim Kashkashian closely follows the 1930s violin & piano transcription by Samuel Dushkin with a few twists.
By Greg Cahill | From the January-February 2021 issue of Strings magazine Downbeat magazine recently named jazz violinist Tomoko Omura one of its Rising Star Violinists for the fifth year in a row. Her new album, Branches Vol. 1 (Outside…
Cellist David Starkweather has published a vertically aligned manuscript edition of all 5 versions of the Bach Cello Suites in an easily navigated digital edition.
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By Greg Cahill | From the November-December 2020 issue of Strings magazine “Hello Weakness, You Make Me Strong is, for us, about finding empowerment in the things that have previously held you back,” violinist and arranger Rachel Ruggles says of…
By Laurence Vittes Midori Gotō, whom the world knows as simply Midori, holds magna cum laude bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology from New York University and the Jascha Heifetz Chair at the Thornton School of Music at the University…
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