Double bass and octobass duet
Double bass player Jonathan Camps is joined by Nicola Moneta on octobass for a performance of ‘Amazing Grace’ filmed at the Mardi Graves festival in February 2018.
Double bass and octobass duet
A meeting of two very different bassists
Yo-Yo Ma performs in Montréal metro
Azure Quartet: Spiral Sequences by Jack Frerer
Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason: variations on In the Bleak Midwinter
The moment Rostropovich's cello is sold for £1.6 million
Hilary Hahn and TwoSet Violin play Paganini while hoola-hooping
Clara-Jumi Kang, Alessio Bax: Debussy Violin Sonata
Itzhak Perlman performs at Pittsburgh synagogue memorial
Peace Through Music: violinist Hyeong-Joon Won
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Saving Stradivari's forests: effort to harvest precious tonewoods felled in storms
A factory in the Fiemme valley has launched a crowdfunding effort to enable it to quadruple its processing capacity before the wood deteriorates
In focus: 1850 violin by Giuseppe Rocca
John Dilworth examines a violin from the height of Rocca’s powers, after he left the Pressenda workshop to strike out on his own. From the January 2011 issue of The Strad
Master stroke: Schilbach varnishing brush
The tapered and split synthetic fibres of this brush are designed to absorb a large volume of oil or spirit varnish, to enable its controlled and uniform application.
All kitted out: violin accessory set
Manufactured in India to Italian designs, these accessory sets comprise four heart-shaped pegs, a decorative end-button, a Guarneri-style chinrest with Hill-style clamps and a Hill-style tailpiece. They are available in ebony and rosewood with a black trim to the tailpiece and black pin collars and pegs, and in boxwood trimmed ...
Firmly fastened: the Schilbach Kevlar tailgut
Using military-grade materials to improve set-up stability
A cut above: Lee Valley stainless steel pocket plane
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, Canadian woodworking firm Lee Valley has produced a limited-edition version of its pocket plane in corrosion-resistant stainless steel and with a nickel-plated lever cap.
Reviews
Gli incogniti: Concerti per Esterházy
The Baroque group wanders into new territory with Haydn’s violin concertos
Steven Isserlis; Dénes Várjon: Chopin
Steven Isserlis passionately argues the case for Chopin’s Cello Sonata
Transfigured Night: Alisa Weilerstein, Trondheim Soloists
Beautifully realised programme from the two Viennese schools
Eldbjørg Hemsing: Dvořák Violin Concerto, Suk Fantasy
A splendid combination of purity and sweeping, Heifetz-like intensity
Leila Schayegh; Jan Schultsz: Brahms
Highly sensitive and responsive performances of Brahms’s Violin Sonatas
Danish String Quartet: Prism 1
A multifaceted view of just how many roads lead from Bach
Galleries
Saving Stradivari's forests: effort to harvest precious tonewoods felled in storms
A factory in the Fiemme valley has launched a crowdfunding effort to enable it to quadruple its processing capacity before the wood deteriorates
In focus: an 1859 violin by Nicolas-François Vuillaume
Roland Baumgartner examines a violin representing a free interpretation of the work of Guarneri ‘del Gesù’, by J.B. Vuillaume’s younger brother [click ‘+’ to zoom]
Gallery: Daniel Müller-Schott performs at German reunification celebrations
These photos were taken at the performance on German Unity Day, 3 October, at Berlin’s Brandeburg Gate
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