The following video from our archive is linked to the Technique article in the April issue of The Strad on warming up the left hand when playing the cello
Violinist Ray Chen warms up with an excerpt from the second movement of Bruch's Scottish Fantasy at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in July 2016
Read Technique: Cello warm-ups - the left hand
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Global violinist Ray Chen’s mission is to connect people through music. He speaks to Amanda Holloway about his work both on and off the concert platform – through his Tonic practice app, his social media presence and his new album
Chen received the unusual item following a performance of the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
A chance to check out the 1714 ‘Dolphin, ex-Heifetz’ Stradivari violin in its glory
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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