Essential Historical Recordings: Ida Haendel, the ‘Grande Dame of the Violin’
Haendel was a large-scaled player who thrived in the great Romantic concerti. In her younger years, her musicality was especially fiery and impulsive...
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Essential Historical Recordings: ‘Queen of the Cello’ Zara Nelsova
By Sasha Margolis Zara Nelsova was born to play the cello—almost literally. The woman who, in the 1950s, would be dubbed “Queen of the Cello” and come to be... Read More...
Getting Over the Shock of the New: Contemporary Symphonic Music Is Coming Of Age
By Greg Cahill | From the May-June 2020 issue of Strings magazine “There is a creepy bloodlust to the doom-mongering of classical music, as though an autops... Read More...
Violinist Francesca Dego on Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s ‘Ballade’
By Francesca Dego
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s death. I first fell in love with this composer when I pe... Read More...
Violinist Henryk Szeryng Was Both an Accomplished Violinist & Diplomat
By Brian Wise
In a century that produced its share of violin firebrands, the Polish-born Henryk Szeryng (1918–88) was the aristocrat of the instrument, favorin... Read More...
Review: Chicago Symphony Brings Light to a Bleak Bay Area
By Cristina Schreil
The San Francisco Bay Area, in desperate need of respite from the wind, received a gentle gust of relief from the Windy City.
It was a ten... Read More...
4 Keys to Picking the Right Tempo Through Logical Intuition
When there is no exact instruction for a tempo, how can you find one that is both respectful of the score and practicable for performance considerations?
The Seasons of Gidon Kremer: In the Case of This Formidable Violin Superstar, One Learns to Expect the Unexpected
By Inge Kjemtrup
Of all the world-renowned violinists born in the decade after World War II—an exclusive club that includes Pinchas Zukerman, Pierre Amoyal, an... Read More...
Review: Seattle Symphony’s Shostakovich Concerto Festival
Music for Troubled Times
By Thomas May
The Seattle Symphony just offered a rare chance to hear all six of Dmitri Shostakovich's solo instrumental concerto... Read More...
Rostropovich’s ‘Duport’ Strad Was the Beneficiary of New Ideas, Clients, and Materials
By Andrew Dipper
In 1711, the year that Antonio Stradivari built the “Duport” cello, Cremona had suffered 11 years of the effects of the War of the Spanish Suc... Read More...