’I start with open strings just to see how the instrument is talking… where are we at today?’
Check out this video from ‘Practice Notes’: Johannes Moser’s tips for an effective warm-up routine, including what to do before picking up the instrument, choosing an appropriate key and double stops (even the weird ones, like 7ths and tritones)
Watch: Cellist Johannes Moser performs Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations, original version
Watch: Alban Gerhardt offers tips on Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto no.2
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An equal partnership sheds new light on these mid-20th century masterpieces
Techniques to help you learn music off by heart and protect against memory slips. From December 2020
The Russian-born viola player gives an insight into his detailed warm-up regimen
Bernsted performs a solo work that she describes as having ‘complexity like a kaleidoscope’
Check out a string chamber version of Vaughan Williams’s beloved work for violin
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Oesi and pianist Andrea Vasi perform Bottesini’s Allegro Di Concerto ’Alla Mendelssohn,’ which was released as a single last week
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