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
Read Technique: Cello warm-ups - the bow arm
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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
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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