All Regulars articles – Page 43
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Gluing the linings with counterforms and springs
An efficient method for a complex process, which allows freedom of movement
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: A cautionary tale for our times
When a cello suffered a calamitous hand sanitiser accident, it looked irreparable at first sight. John Simmers explains how he restored it to the way it was pre-Covid
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Alisa Weilerstein on Chopin’s Cello Sonata in G minor op.65
The American cellist explores how to bring out all the romantic charm of the first movement using fingerings and bowings, without over-reliance on vibrato, rubato or a sticky, sickly sound
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Early music articulation for modern instrumentalists
How to use Baroque bow techniques to build variety, lightness and flow into every phrase
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: May 1901
A reader takes issue with luthier and prolific contributor Arthur Broadley, and his views on the work of northern maker Walter H. Mayson which he made known in the previous edition
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: April 1991
In 1989, the Soviet Union removed a cap on the number of people allowed to emigrate from its borders. With many musicians among them, hundreds of thousands headed for Israel, as writer Yossi Schiffmann reports
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Cello warm-ups - the left-hand
Exercises and advice to help string players develop a left hand that is strong, balanced and agile
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FeatureSentimental Work: Daniel Hope
Schnittke’s First Violin Sonata was the Irish–German violinist’s introduction to the composer’s work – as well as the perfect opening to meet the composer himself
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FocusHideko Udagawa: Life Lessons
Like her teacher Nathan Milstein, the Japanese–British violinist argues that technique isn’t everything
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Premium ❘ FeatureApril 2021: Welcome
The Strad’s editor Charlotte Smith introduces the April 2021 issue
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Premium ❘ FeatureSoundpost: Letters to the Editor April 2021
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: April 2021 issue
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Premium ❘ NewsAnalysis April 2021: Crossing the streams
Live streaming has become one of the main – and in some cases the only – outlet for musicians to perform during the pandemic. But how viable is it as a profit-making enterprise? By Peter Somerford
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ArticleProducts April 2021: Dominant Pro violin strings
A familiar favourite gets a high-tech update
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DebateOpinion: Follow the science
A teacher can never rest on their laurels with a pupil – it’s important to keep observing how things are going and ask questions, says Naomi Yandell
