May 2010

Building the future

Friday, 23 April 2010

Ariane Todes encountered fighting talk and inspiring progress despite financial worries at the American string teachers’ convention in California

Class of 1890

Friday, 23 April 2010

Christina Bashford looks back 120 years to discover how The Strad began life in a boom time for British string playing across all ages

Let’s hear it for the girls

Friday, 23 April 2010

Women soloists have long struggled against prejudice and indifference in the male-dominated musical establishment. But, as Tully Potter explains, The ...

Sell! Sell! Sell!

Friday, 23 April 2010

Advertisements in the earliest issues of The Strad provide fascinating insights into how the violin trade has changed in 120 years. Philip Kass delves...

Great violinists: Nicolò Paganini

Friday, 23 April 2010

In a special feature to mark The Strad’s 120th anniversary, Julian Haylock examines perhaps the greatest violinist of them all

The progress of progress

Friday, 23 April 2010

A century after The Strad published its first article on the Stradivari ‘Betts’ violin, maker John Waddle asks what the magazine’s descriptions of the...

Trade Secrets: What they don’t teach you at school

Friday, 23 April 2010

Instrument makers from around the world join our anniversary celebrations by revealing the essential lutherie techniques that they were never taught, ...

Masterclass: Bach’s Chaconne in D minor

Friday, 23 April 2010

To mark the 120th anniversary of The Strad, the great virtuoso Ida Haendel draws on a lifetime of playing to explore what is for many the pinnacle of ...

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