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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts December 2023: Instrumagic cello endpin
A cello endpin bejewelled for a more powerful sound
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts December 2023: Jargar Evoke cello strings
A new cello set for the company’s existing Evoke range
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Premium ❘ FeatureCopying a Montagnana cello: The Full Monty
For the past few years, the attendees of the annual Oberlin Violin Makers Workshop have set themselves increasingly challenging group projects. Robin Aitchison explains how 30 luthiers collaborated on their latest task: to copy a Montagnana cello with pinpoint accuracy
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Premium ❘ Article‘Vast quantities of music flung at them’ - From the Archive: November 1923
Composer A.M. Gifford presents a compelling argument for musicians to be more adventurous in their programming
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Paul Neubauer on Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata - second and third movements
Violist Paul Neubauer considers the merits of a more Classical interpretation for this often over-romanticised work
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Finding the best-fitting viola
While the violin form is pretty much standardised, violas exist in all kinds of sizes and patterns. Chris Sandvoss offers some pointers to find the instrument most suited to the player
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: The benefits of rest for students
Cellist and teacher Naomi Yandell is often pleasantly surprised at how much progress can be made by students during a break from lessons
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Premium ❘ NewsPremiere of the Month: Lotta Wennäkoski on her new violin concerto
A new violin concerto follows the contours of speech
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Violinist Vadim Repin on Chausson’s Poème
Violinist Vadim Repin discusses vibrato, orchestration and technique in this challenging, passionate work. From June 2017
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Premium ❘ FeatureKronos Quartet at 50: Hunger for the new
Kronos Quartet has been at the vanguard of contemporary string quartet performance for 50 years. Founder David Harrington and former cellist Joan Jeanrenaud speak with Thomas May about the legacy of innovation that the ensemble is celebrating with an ambitious series of projects this season
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Premium ❘ FeatureGerman bow makers in America: Across the Atlantic
Many, if not most, of the earliest bow makers working in America originally hailed from Germany. Raphael Gold discovers how they helped lay the foundations for the industry
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: Violinist Aleksey Igudesman on Schumann’s Piano Quartet
The Andante cantabile third movement of Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E flat major op.47 holds stirring memories for the innovative violinist and composer
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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: The Solem Quartet’s recording of 20th-century and contemporary music
The Solem Quartet’s violist Stephen Upshaw talks to Harry White about the themes of light, shade and perspective that link the works on the ensemble’s album of 20th-century and contemporary music
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Premium ❘ NewsPremiere of the Month: Elena Kats-Chernin on her new double concerto
The Sarenka Concerto is in memory of an extraordinary woman
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Premium ❘ FeatureSphinx Organization: Change for good
For the past quarter-century the Sphinx Organization has worked tirelessly to bring much-needed diversity to the US classical music scene. Bruce Hodges examines its achievements, and hears from its founder and its president about the future
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Leonidas Kavakos on Brahms Violin Concerto, first movement
Musical imagination, measured vibrato and a sense of thematic continuity are all essential to playing this celebrated work. From June 2014
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Michael Darnton’s Chicago workshop
Take a peek into the luthier’s compact workshop
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Establishing a consistent double bass neck heel
A personal method that can be utilised during the design of the neck and scroll
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Boulder: Colorado Music Festival
A chance to hear the world premiere of a brand new violin concerto commissioned and played by Joshua Bell was the highlight of a trip to the Colorado Music Festival for Emma Baker