We need articulation to excite the strings and give our playing clarity'
Cellist David Finckel talks about 'bow clicks', enabling each bow stroke to start with a 'pop'.
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Leah Hollingsworth hears the performance of Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Grieg at the Brevard Music Center, Brevard, NC, US, on 1 July 2024
Guidance from The Strad’s archive for greater synchronisation between left-hand fingers and bow
The quartet performed its final concerts on 21 and 22 October 2023.
The cellist appears alongside the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra and its music director Stuart Malina
Philharmonia musicians perform one of Finland’s most popular Christmas carols, Jean Sibelius’s Julvisa
Double bassist Théotime Voisin and pianist Maurice van Schoonhoven perform an arrangement of the popular opera overture in a tribute to the bel canto tradition
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