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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
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Alban Gerhardt on Dvořák Cello Concerto, first movement
Alban Gerhardt provides practical tips to help you make the most of this popular audition piece
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Premium ❘ ArticleAugust 2023: Editor’s welcome and contents
The Strad’s editor Emma Baker introduces the August 2023 issue
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Premium ❘ Article’A phone call from Frontier Airlines offering a formal apology’ - Letters to the editor: August 2023
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: August 2023 issue
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts August 2023: CodaBow Marquise bass bow
The company’s highest-end bass bow yet
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts August 2023: Larsen ‘Direct & Focused’ violin strings
A new version of an established range
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts August 2023: Arcofrog Tadpoles frog replicas
A frog replica for easy bow hold training
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: August 2023
This month’s competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: an 1844 violin by Thomas Hardie
David Rattray examines an instrument by the Scottish maker
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Creating f-hole templates
Luthier Aubrey K. Alexander gives her method for creating f-hole templates using a CNC machine and Fusion 360 design software
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: Rethinking Beethoven’s String Quartet op.135
Norman Werbner argues an intriguing case for a different way of performing Beethoven’s String Quartet op.135
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Premium ❘ Feature‘It gets excellent sunlight’ - My Space: Svend Christensen
A luthier in Kensington, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Premium ❘ FeatureTwisted History: Female violinists and the Brahms concerto
Tatjana Goldberg takes a closer look at the group of female violinists spreading Brahms’s violin concerto worldwide
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Debussy Cello Sonata, second and third movements
Cellist Thomas Demenga reflects on the importance of restraint next to the extremes of expressive detail to be brought out in this masterpiece
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Premium ❘ FeaturePurfling experiments: Secrets of the strips
Mike Dunham describes a purfling process proposed at the Oberlin workshop in 2022
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Copenhagen: Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition
The third edition of the the competition was a reminder of just how wondrous Nielsen’s string quartets are, says Andrew Mellor
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A c.1840 violin by Georges Chanot I
Ric W. Heinl on the French maker’s mid-century instrument
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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: Violinist Madeleine Mitchell on 20th- and 21st-century violin works
British violinist Madeleine Mitchell’s new album naturally follows the strong links inherent in a line of 20th- and 21st-century composers
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Premium ❘ FeatureDouble bassist Leon Bosch on the South African Strings Foundation
Double bassist Leon Bosch attended the South African String Foundation’s first in-person convention in Gqeberha
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Reger’s Three Suites for Solo Viola, op.131d
Hartmut Rohde provides historical hints and practical tips for performing these innovative viola solos