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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis March 2024: UK ensembles touring Europe
Touring to Europe is about to become even more difficult for UK ensembles, now that Orchestra Tax Relief from the government will no longer be an option
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: March 2024
The latest competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts March 2024: Ebonprex pegs
New pegs finish off a complete range of ebony-alternative fittings
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Premium ❘ Article‘What is critical is finding a good teacher’ - Letters to the editor: March 2024
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: March 2024 issue
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Premium ❘ ArticleMarch 2024: Editor’s welcome and contents
The Strad’s editor Emma Baker introduces the March 2024 issue
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts March 2024: Snark Titanium clip-on tuner
A new version of the company’s clip-on tuner
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts March 2024: Negri Quantum violin case
The case is designed for safety and security
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Stability of top and back plates
Christian Bayon reveals the results of several years’ experimentation with improving the stability of a violin’s top and back plates without compromising the sound quality
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: Criticism in teaching
Cellist and teacher Naomi Yandell explores the fine line between nagging and getting a point across by reminder and reinforcement, and suggests that a less verbal approach can often yield good results
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Victor Hugo Vélez's Tallinn workshop
The Argentinian luthier presents his Estonian workshop
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Brahms Violin Sonata no.2 first movement
Taking inspiration from the composer’s Lieder, violinist Daniel Kurganov highlights the importance of emulating vocal lines in the second of Brahms’s violin sonatas
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Viola sound production
Simon Rowland-Jones presents strategies using balance to create a free viola sound
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Switzerland: Concours de Genève String Quartet edition
Musical and emotional maturity made for an artistic, rather than competitive, experience at the Concours de Genève String Quartet edition, as Rita Fernandes found
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1786 violin by G.B. Guadagnini
John Dilworth examines a violin made in the last year of the master luthier’s life
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Premium ❘ NewsPremiere of the Month: Héloïse Werner’s new work for violin and soprano
Four personalities take centre stage in this new duet
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: Edward Dusinberre on Beethoven’s String Quartet no.8
Beethoven’s String Quartet no.8 has been a life companion for the British musician, over more than three decades as the Takács Quartet’s first violinist
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Huberman’s virile and unrestrained playing’ - From the archive: February 1934
The Strad ’s Egyptian correspondent Alexander Ruppa gives an account of two (not entirely successful) performances by violinist Bronisław Huberman
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis February 2024: The state of music education training
With dwindling numbers of people training to be music teachers in England, what can be done to encourage more interest in the music education sector?
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Preparing the neck-block on a violin before scroll carving
Katharina Neumüller presents an efficient, accurate method for the earlier parts of neck carving, before working on the scroll
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Premium ❘ NewsPremiere of the Month: Oscar Jockel’s new work for string orchestra
A work in search of a sound, which will premiere on 29 January
