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June 2023: Editor’s welcome and contents
The Strad’s editor Emma Baker introduces the June 2023 issue
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‘Brava, Myra!’ - Letters to the editor: June 2023
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: June 2023 issue
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Products June 2023: Thomastik Dynamo strings
A set designed to offer everything a violinist could want
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Sentimental Work: Antoine Tamestit on Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante
The French violist has performed Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante with a host of violinist, but the second movement still packs an emotional punch
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‘Violin playing is important in Cypriot culture’ - My Space: Michalis Pantelides
The Cypriot violin maker takes us round his well-appointed workshop in the capital, Nicosia
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Opinion: A case for depping
The art of deputising may be one of the scariest things a musician can do, but it’s a skill that can benefit all players, says cellist Davina Shum
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Masterclass: Leila Josefowicz on Berg Violin Concerto Second Movement - part 1
ln the first of two articles, Leila Josefowicz explores ideas of feverishness, hallucination, death and resurrection in the second movement of a great 20th-century concerto
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In Focus: A 1894 violin by Gaetano Antoniazzi
Sean Bishop looks at a violin by one of modern Italian lutherie’s pioneers
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Debate
Opinion: The Wisdom of Yoda
In the Star Wars universe, Jedi Master Yoda is the ultimate teacher – and his insights can be applied just as readily to string playing as to learning the ways of the Force, writes cellist Brian Hodges
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Making Matters: Instrument resonance
The tonal qualities of great instruments continue to prove profoundly enigmatic when we seek to unlock their secrets, as Martin Horvat explains
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‘Don’t exclude any area of music’ - Catherine Hewgill’s life lessons
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s principal cellist discusses her time in the US and the life of a section leader
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Trade Secrets: Restoring the octagon of a violin bow
A repair method that avoids having to rebuild the whole octagon from scratch
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An interview with Sarasate - From the archive: May 1893
Spanish virtuoso Pablo de Sarasate gives an exclusive interview to The Strad in his eye-wateringly bright yellow salon in Paris
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Masterclass: Glazunov Elegy in G minor for viola and piano op.44
Violist Paul Laraia explores the lyrical possibilities of this miniature masterpiece and the emotional journey on which it takes the listener
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Technique: Itzhak Rashkovsky on Sostenuto
The violinist shares his thoughts on sostenuto and how to sing on the violin
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Postcard from Oslo: ‘Master to Master’ symposium
Musicians, luthiers and experts converged on Oslo’s National Museum in February for ‘Master to Master’, Christian Lloyd reports
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Analysis May 2023: Support for young string quartets
A European initiative aims to give young talented string quartets the professional start they deserve
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Products May 2023: For-Tune Opal Gold violin strings
The second set in the company’s Opal Gold range