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ArticlePremiere of the month: Márton Illés’s Én-kör III
Patricia Kopatchinskaja to perform new work requiring ‘power, precision and virtuosity’
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ArticleGiuseppe Sgarbi - an overlooked individualist?
In an era when luthiers were not precious about putting elements of their own personality into the models to which they referred, the 19th century maker Giuseppe Sgarbi created instruments that have a unique vibrancy and individuality
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Article‘When I say play in a natural way, it shouldn’t be like cotton’
The great Russian violinist and teacher Nelli Shkolnikova’s principles of violin technique
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Article‘I look up to the ceiling and suddenly notice the stucco’
Cellist Thomas Demenga on the illuminating power of ornamentation in Bach’s Cello Suites
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Article‘When you are on a hill, the sound is good’
Luthier Stefan-Peter Greiner on the mysterious art of sound-adjustment
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Article‘It is so unviolinistic’
Patricia Kopatchinskaja on the heartbreak and pain of Schumann’s Violin Concerto
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Article‘He had the ability to touch the soul’
The writer, broadcaster and Menuhin biographer Humphrey Burton remembers meeting Yehudi for the first time in 1959
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Article‘Why play drunk people prettily?’
On day seven of our festive season of quotes from The Strad archive, violinist Pekka Kuusisto recalls a controversial performance he gave of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
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Article‘One has to understand minimalism as a “plateau of sound”’
Continuing our series of quotes for the festive season, violinist Darragh Morgan examines the role of articulation in minimalism performance practice
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Article‘There is an underlying sense of foreboding’
Marking the twelve days of the festive season, The Strad presents quotes from the archive. Today, the Carducci Quartet players discuss subtext in Shostakovich’s string quartets
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Article‘The bow and the student’s arm are one; the student is the bass’
Marking the twelve days of the festive season, The Strad presents quotes from the archive. Here, double bassist François Rabbath gives advice on sound development
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Article‘It was a very different way to look at music’
Marking the twelve days of the festive season, The Strad presents memorable quotes from the archive. On day three, Truls Mørk recalls working with Lutoslawski on his Cello Concerto
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Article‘The music begins to override the technical challenges’
Marking the days of the festive season, The Strad presents twelve quotes from the archive. Here, violinist Rachel Podger describes the pain and rewards of scordatura tuning
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Article‘It’s close to expressing everything about life’
Marking the days of the festive season, The Strad presents twelve memorable quotes from the archive. On the first day, Ida Haendel offers advice on interpreting Bach’s Chaconne
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ArticleThe alchemy of the madder root
Madder root has been used since ancient times to create a deep red pigment – but the making process remains enigmatic
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ArticleNew Products: January 2020
Leatherwood Bespoke Rosin double bass rosin; Optima Gut Klang violin strings set; International Violoin flexible LED strip
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ArticleLisa Batiashvili plays Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto
Lisa Batiashvili, our cover star for the January 2020 issue of The Strad, plays Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in this performance with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra under Gábor Takács-Nagy. The performance took place last September at the 2019 Tsinandali Festival in Tsinandali, Kakheti, Georgia.
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ArticleSoundpost: Letters to the Editor January 2020
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: January 2020 issue
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ArticleOpinion: Managing a good ending
When a child wants to stop instrumental lessons, teachers have a duty to bring matters to a positive close, argues violin teacher Celia Cobb
