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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: Solving issues with your students’ parents over coffee
When issues arise that aren’t easily solved during lesson time, cellist and teacher Naomi Yandell finds that taking a pupil’s parent or guardian out for a coffee and a chat on neutral territory can be time well spent
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Cello bowing habits
Cellist Clara Minhye Kim on setting up sustainable and natural bowing habits
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1924 violin by János Spiegel
Zoltán Délczeg examines a 100-year-old instrument by Hungarian maker János Spiegel
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Mensur Avdić’s Tuzla workshop
The maker presents his workshop in Bosnia & Herzegovina
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: Harriet Krijgh on Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata
Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata presents a cornucopia of emotions for the Dutch cellist, with the beautiful third movement a particular highlight
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Schubert ‘Death and the Maiden’ String Quartet, second movement
Violist of the Kuss Quartet William Coleman emphasises the importance of creating a narrative arc in this movement, which encompasses a journey of emotional ambivalence
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Speed of sound in bow wood
Why is it that a violin’s sound quality can change so radically with a different bow? Massimo Lucchi explains the principle behind the speed of sound in bow wood
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Siena: Chigiana International Festival
The star-studded 2024 Chigiana International Festival in Siena stayed true to its century-old international traditions, finds Rita Fernandes
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Premium ❘ NewsPremiere of the Month: Mark Simpson’s new viola concerto for Timothy Ridout
A viola concerto full of struggle yet fearlessness
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts December 2024: Larsen Aurora viola strings
Viola strings complete an affordable range
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts December 2024: Arcofrog Peled Bowpen
A new product to help with right hand technique
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts December 2024: Instru Mate instrument finder
A new product to help with finding your instrument
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Premium ❘ ArticleDecember 2024: Editor’s welcome and contents
The Strad’s editor Emma Baker introduces the December 2024 issue, which celebrates the dawn of Venetian instrument making in the 16th century
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Joachim was a revelation’ - From the archive: November 1894
Spanish violinist and conductor Enrique Fernández Arbós chats with Henry Saint-George about two of his most important tutors: Vieuxtemps and Joachim
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: cellist Astrid Schween on Dvořák’s Waldesruhe
For the American cellist, Dvořák’s Waldesruhe brings back fond memories of working with her early mentor, Jacqueline du Pré
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Making a wooden peg shaper
A method for creating a model with an interchangeable blade
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Yam Uri Raz’s Hawai’i workshop
The maker shows us around his shop in the city of Hilo
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: Practising scales in sequential order
While most string players agree that scales and arpeggios are the basic building blocks for good technique, cellist Robert Jesselson says that it’s essential to practise them sequentially to gain the maximum benefit
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Finding flexibility in the left hand
Violist Jordan Bak presents an open-handed approach to left-hand technique
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Premium ❘ NewsPremiere of the Month: Kebra-Seyoun Charles’s new bass concerto
A New York-inspired bass concerto brings together varying dance forms
