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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: a 1759 viola by Petter Hellstedt
Stefan Lindholm examines an instrument by the Swedish maker
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: A platform for gluing a broken button
A method that takes the guesswork and uncertainty out of this challenging repair job
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Premium ❘ NewsPremiere of the Month: Roxanna Panufnik’s new work for strings and voices
Voice and strings combine for a poetic lullaby
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Premium ❘ FeatureDown to the ground: Stradivari’s preparation layers
Giacomo Fiocco presents the results of a study using innovative spectroscopic techniques to examine two of the master’s finest instruments
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1947 violin by Frantisek Zivec
Matthieu Besseling on the Bohemian maker’s mid-century instrument
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Premium ❘ FeatureGrace, charm and effortless elegance: remembering violinist Jacques Thibaud
To mark the 70th anniversary of the death of French violinist Jacques Thibaud, Tully Potter looks back at the life of one of the 20th century’s most influential musicians
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Glenn Dicterow on the Sheherazade violin solos
The former concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic reveals the freedom and agility needed to seduce the listener in this most sensuous of all orchestral violin solos. From June 2008
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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: Escher Quartet on Janáček and Haas
Escher Quartet cellist Brook Speltz talks to David Kettle about the foursome’s original interpretations of Janáček and Haas quartets
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Double bass sound production
Alexandra Scott on starting to free your sound on the double bass
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: c.1845-50 violin by Georges Chanot
Roland Baumgartner examines an instrument by one of the most important 19th-century French makers
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Premium ❘ Focus‘I imagine dialogues with Schumann and Bartók!’ - Rachel Barton Pine’s life lessons
The US violinist on her unique journey and the importance of keeping artistic integrity
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the archive: a 1618 Henry Jaye viol
The work of British violin maker Henry Jaye is testament to the unsung tradition of viol making in 17th-century London. John Dilworth examines a strikingly varnished Jaye instrument from 1618
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Find someone who’s like-hearted’ - Changes within string quartets
Peter Quantrill speaks to string quartet players who have survived, and even thrived under membership change
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Dvořák Violin Concerto, first movement
In a work that had a complicated gestation Pavel Šporcl draws on its different influences to celebrate its parts and better understand it as a whole
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Premium ❘ FeatureMarino Capicchioni: A one-of-a-kind luthier
Self-taught and living far away from any centres of lutherie, Marino Capicchioni became famous in his time for the superb quality of his instruments.
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: a seven-string bass viol by Michel Colichon
Shem Mackey explores this quirky instrument by the French maker
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Montreal: Montreal International Music Competition
Technical level was higher than ever before at the competition, but it was musicianship that really took centre stage, finds Rita Fernandes
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis August 2023: Changing teaching approaches for adult beginners
With an increase in the number of adults taking their first steps in playing, how do teachers adapt their teaching methods to this different discipline?
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Premium ❘ NewsPremiere of the Month: Curtis Stewart on his new piano quintet
Gilded Cage will premiere on 22 July at The Breakers in Newport, US
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Premium ❘ Feature‘I can’t help having a different perspective’ - Violinist Nicola Benedetti
Ahead of Nicola Benedetti’s debut as director of the Edinburgh International Festival, Rebecca Franks speaks to her about her plans