All Regulars articles – Page 55
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: A 30-minute routine to keep your playing on top form
Ideas to help violinists and violists maintain high technical and musical standards around a busy regime
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: February 1930
In his regular ‘Continental Happenings’ column, the acerbic George Cecil rounds up some of the more unusual string-related news and performances around Europe
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FeatureThe heart of Amadeus: Postcard from Zhuhai
Peter Quantrill hears Mozartians of the future competing in the violin category of the biennial Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians – by the shores of China’s Pearl River
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FeatureSentimental Work: Sheku Kanneh-Mason
For the British cellist, Elgar’s Cello Concerto brings back a wealth of memories from his earliest years studying the instrument – and of trying to play like Jacqueline du Pré
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FocusDouble bassist Christine Hoock on sound and phrase
The professor of double bass at Mozarteum University Salzburg and president of the International Sperger Society for Double Bass shares her wisdom in this month’s Technique article
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ArticlePremiere of the month: Márton Illés’s Én-kör III
Patricia Kopatchinskaja to perform new work requiring ‘power, precision and virtuosity’
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Premium ❘ ArticleJanuary 2020: Welcome
The Strad’s editor Charlotte Smith introduces the January 2020 issue
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: January 2020
This month’s competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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Premium ❘ NewsAuction Report: January 2020
Old Italians and a modern bow proved popular at this autumn’s auctions, as Kevin MacDonald reports
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ArticleNew Products: January 2020
Leatherwood Bespoke Rosin double bass rosin; Optima Gut Klang violin strings set; International Violoin flexible LED strip
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: a peninsular bench extension
Ideas for a workplace addition that is completely accessible from all three of its sides
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: the DNA of design
David Beard argues that the old Cremonese makers had a geometric system of design ‘recipes’ to create the vast number of different instrument patterns we see today
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Sound and phrase
The importance of developing a refined, balanced technique to communicate a nuanced musical line on the double bass
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: January 1900
An unsolved mystery from 1869: T.L. Phipson relates how a c.1709 Stradivari violin vanished without trace – and as far as we know, remains missing to this day
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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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FeatureSentimental Work: Linus Roth
Weinberg’s Violin Concerto is a work of passionate intensity, as the German violinist found – even though he hadn’t encountered the composer until eight years ago
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: December 1909
The pseudonymous ‘L.H.W.’ gives his thoughts on teaching, in an article he might himself call ‘profuse and extravagant in expression’
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Teaching rhythm and bowing to beginners
How to inspire very young musicians to learn new cello playing skills
