All Article articles – Page 10
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Article‘He had the ability to touch the soul’
The writer, broadcaster and Menuhin biographer Humphrey Burton remembers meeting Yehudi for the first time in 1959
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Article‘Why play drunk people prettily?’
On day seven of our festive season of quotes from The Strad archive, violinist Pekka Kuusisto recalls a controversial performance he gave of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
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Article‘One has to understand minimalism as a “plateau of sound”’
Continuing our series of quotes for the festive season, violinist Darragh Morgan examines the role of articulation in minimalism performance practice
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Article‘There is an underlying sense of foreboding’
Marking the twelve days of the festive season, The Strad presents quotes from the archive. Today, the Carducci Quartet players discuss subtext in Shostakovich’s string quartets
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Article‘The bow and the student’s arm are one; the student is the bass’
Marking the twelve days of the festive season, The Strad presents quotes from the archive. Here, double bassist François Rabbath gives advice on sound development
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Article‘It was a very different way to look at music’
Marking the twelve days of the festive season, The Strad presents memorable quotes from the archive. On day three, Truls Mørk recalls working with Lutoslawski on his Cello Concerto
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Article‘The music begins to override the technical challenges’
Marking the days of the festive season, The Strad presents twelve quotes from the archive. Here, violinist Rachel Podger describes the pain and rewards of scordatura tuning
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Article‘It’s close to expressing everything about life’
Marking the days of the festive season, The Strad presents twelve memorable quotes from the archive. On the first day, Ida Haendel offers advice on interpreting Bach’s Chaconne
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ArticleThe alchemy of the madder root
Madder root has been used since ancient times to create a deep red pigment – but the making process remains enigmatic
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ArticleNew Products: January 2020
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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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ArticleSoundpost: Letters to the Editor January 2020
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: January 2020 issue
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ArticleOpinion: Managing a good ending
When a child wants to stop instrumental lessons, teachers have a duty to bring matters to a positive close, argues violin teacher Celia Cobb
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ArticleHow I interpret Bach: Tomás Cotik on strings, intonation and vibrato
Ahead of his 2020 album release of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, the violinist continues his blog series, in which he discusses the contradictions between the opposing trends and traditions in Bach interpretation, and his personal solutions to them
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ArticleLife Lessons: Laura van der Heijden
Seven years after winning the BBC Young Musician competition, the British cellist discusses how different forms of music making inspire her
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ArticleHow a forgotten chamber masterpiece finally saw the light
A powerfully expressive chamber work by one of the most important British composers of the interwar years failed to make it into print – but why? As Rebecca Clarke’s 1923 Rhapsody for cello and piano is published for the first time, John York, who recorded the piece with cellist Raphael ...
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ArticleUnsung masters from America’s ‘first school’ of bow making
In this extract from the November 2019 issue, Raphael Gold tells the story of Ernst Lohberg, one of three outstanding makers from the early-20th century who trained at William Lewis & Son and whose work was revered by Heifetz, Milstein and Stern
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ArticleNew Products: December 2019
Stradpet titanium tailpiece; Cello Gard foldable cello stand; Musafia case caddy
