All Editorial articles – Page 8
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The Strad Calendar 2025: 1717 ‘Windsor, Weinstein’ Stradivari violin
The first Stradivari violin to be given to the Canada Council’s Musical Instrument Bank, it remains in top-class condition
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London Chamber Ensemble Quartet: Howells, Wood
A telling pairing of master and pupil, performed with élan
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Emanuel Feuermann – The RCA Album Collection
A first complete collection does justice to a cello legend
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The Strad Calendar 2025: 1730 ‘Newland’ Giovanni Francesco Celoniato cello
One of only eight cellos known to be made by the Turin-based luthier, it is named after Canadian cellist Christine Newland
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The Strad Recommends: Steven Isserlis: Music of the Angels
Brilliantly committed performances bring Boccherini to life
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The Strad Recommends: Yo-Yo-Ma: Merci
A lifetime’s music making together is poignantly celebrated
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The Strad Recommends: Ébène Quartet: Milestones
A 25th-anniversary album finds the quartet on heartfelt form
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The Strad Calendar 2025: 1820 Giovanni Francesco Pressenda violin
Possibly the first instrument ever made by Pressenda, it boasts a two-piece back of slightly burled quarter-cut maple
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Festival review: Rosendal Festival
Harriet Smith finds that rain certainly didn’t stop play at Leif Ove Andsnes’s inspiring annual Norwegian gathering from 7–11 August 2024
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Concert review: Ava Bahari (violin) Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Andrew Mellor attends the performance of at Malmö Live Concert Hall in Sweden on 13 September 2024
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Concert review: New York Philharmonic Ensembles
Leah Hollingsworth visits New York’s Merkin Concert Hall for the peformance of on 29 September 2024
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Concert review: María Dueñas (violin) Philadelphia Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Bruce Hodges attends the performance of Bruch, Terence Blanchard and Tchaikovsky at Philadelphia’s Marian Anderson Hall on 26 September 2024
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Concert review: Leila Josefowicz (violin) John Novacek (piano
Charlotte Gardner attends the performance of Debussy and Szymanowski at London’s Wigmore Hall on 21 September 2024
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Concert review: Lawrence Power (viola, violin) Thomas Adès (piano) Paul Stoneman (percussion) Jonathan Goddard (dancer)
Tim Homfray visits London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on 27 September 2024 for the performance of Adès, Purcell, Britten, Berio and Stravinsky