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ArticleNew Product: April 2020
UP, UP AND AWAY At just 65cm long – 15cm shorter than Musafia’s standard models – this violin case is among the smallest on the market and has been designed with air travel in mind. It features the maker’s standard 6-ply wood-laminate shell and waterproof Codura outer layer, and can ...
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ArticleWilliam C. Honeyman: people’s violin man and possible inspiration behind Sherlock Holmes
During the 19th century there was an upsurge of interest in violin playing in Britain. At its centre, writes Kevin MacDonald, was the Scottish violinist and writer William C. Honeyman – purveyor of string secrets to the masses and possible inspiration for Sherlock Holmes
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ArticleLife Lessons: Timothy Ridout
There’s more to the instrument’s repertoire than meets the eye, says the young British viola player
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ArticleCremona in partial lockdown as coronavirus spreads
Cremona is in partial lockdown to prevent spread of coronavirus, as a resident of the city tests positive
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ArticlePlayers of Tomorrow: Jevgēnijs Čepoveckis
The 24-year-old Latvian violinist, winner of the 2019 Oleh Krysa International Violin Competition, reveals his strategy for dealing with competition pressure, and his biggest fear
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ArticleNew Products: March 2020
Dolfinos chin and shoulder rest system; Yamaha SLB300SK Silent Bass; Bam Supreme polycarbonate violin case
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ArticleA 30-minute daily practice routine for violinists and violists
How to keep your playing in shape while maintaining a busy schedule, by Misha Galaganov, professor of viola and chamber music at Texas Christian University, TX, US
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ArticleAn almost perfect success story: the evolution of Vuillaume
Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume was the most successful French luthier of his time, but the first years of his career remain shrouded in mystery. Jonathan Marolle examines some of his earliest instruments to uncover the evolution of his technique and style
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ArticlePremiere of the month: Shake, rattle and roll
French composer Jérôme Combier and cellist Eric-Maria Couturier take a solo journey into the underworld
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ArticleOn the question of retirement: string players of all ages share their views
Is there a time when we should put our instruments away for good? Pauline Harding talks to musicians young and old about falling standards, failing physiques and a joy of playing music that, if we want it to, should carry us to our graves
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ArticleHow I interpret Bach: Tomás Cotik on Classification
Ahead of his 2020 album release of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, the violinist continues his blog series, in which he discusses the contradictions between the opposing trends and traditions in Bach interpretation, and his personal solutions to them
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ArticleLife Lessons: Christian Poltéra
Having the space to breathe is important in more ways than one, says the Swiss cellist
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ArticleSoundpost: Letters to the Editor February 2020
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: February 2020 issue
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ArticleNew Products: February 2020
PSET pneumatic positioners; Da Capo music theory game; Kun colour collapsoble shoulder rest
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ArticleUrtext editions - friend or foe?
Are urtext editions the only legitimate way to access the composer’s musical intentions? Do edited editions inevitably distort the authentic creative voice?
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ArticleFiddle thought to be played by Robert Burns is to go on tour
A Scottish fiddle, thought to be played by the Bard, more than 250 years ago, is to go on a three-week concert tour
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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
