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Premium ❘ Feature1709 ‘King Carlos IV’ Stradivari violin: A crown jewel
Florian Leonhard reveals the history behind the 1709 ‘King Carlos IV’ Stradivari violin
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Jan Vogler on the Schumann Cello Concerto
Jan Vogler gives practical advice to help you tackle and perform one of the composer’s most daring and adventurous works
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Premium ❘ ArticleJuly 2023: Editor’s welcome and contents
The Strad’s editor Emma ‘Baker introduces the July 2023 issue
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Premium ❘ Article‘Just become a Baroque violinist’ - Letters to the editor: July 2023
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: July 2023 issue
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts July 2023: Pirastro KorfkerRest Luna
A new, synthetic shoulder rest from Pirastro and the first in nearly a decade
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts July 2023: Corelli Solea cello strings
The first cello strings in their latest range
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: July 2023
This month’s competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Close to the mountains and lakes’ - My Space: Filippo Fasser
A Brescia-based workshop that also hosts concerts
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: a 1784 Vicente Assensio violin
Jordi Pinto examines a violin by the Spanish luthier
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: Gary Karr on bass-ic misunderstandings
Double bass soloist Gary Karr calls for greater understanding of his instrument from conductors, in this article from July 2014
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Ginastera’s Variaciones concertantes double bass solo
Orin O’Brien gives practical advice to help capture the magic and mystery of this most musically satisfying of bass solos
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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: violinist Kerson Leong on Britten and Bruch
Canadian violinist Kerson Leong speaks to Tom Stewart about recording an unusual pairing of two very different concertos
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1926 violin by Jeromos Cigl
Zoltán Délczeg examines an instrument by the Hungarian maker
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Premium ❘ FeaturePlate archings and tone - part 2: a question of tone
Nigel Harris shows how close control of the arching shape of the plates can influence tone
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: Francesca Dego on Brahms’s Violin Concerto
The Brahms Violin Concerto has been the Italian violinist’s constant partner throughout her career
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1777 viola by Luigi Marconcini
Jonathan Marolle examines a viola with a personal style
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Photogrammetry to produce casts
Guy Harrison describes the process of using photogrammetry – the extraction of 3D information from photographs – to produce casts of instrument archings
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Strauss Ein Heldenleben violin solo
Lyn Fletcher gives practical advice to help you perform the extensive violin solo in this Strauss masterpiece
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Premium ❘ FeatureA mystery collector: On the trail of a Russian nobleman
Gennady Filimonov investigates a mysterious collector known in many publications as ‘a Russian nobleman’