All Featured Stories articles – Page 58
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Blogs‘The harrowing history of apartheid underpins the work’: Samantha Ege
Samantha Ege offers her insights working with Castle of our Skins on their programme of chamber works from the African continent and diaspora
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Blogs‘Throw, snatch, shower, cascade’: How United Strings of Europe combines string playing with jugglers
Music director and violinist Julian Azkoul shares what it’s like to perform with live-action jugglers in a new work exploring social and artistic recovery
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Blogs‘It begins with awareness of the unmistakable link between music and emotions’ - Sarah Daramy-Williams
Violinist Sarah Daramy-Williams explores a more holistic approach to creating music outside the rigid forms and boxes of the traditional classical world
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Premium ❘ Focus‘It seemed like the Mount Everest of the repertoire’ - Nicolas Altstaedt on Dvořák's ‘Dumky’ trio
Dvořák’s ‘Dumky’ Piano Trio always seemed like the Mount Everest of the repertoire, until the Covid lockdowns gave the German cellist a chance to find the real meaning behind it
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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: the Chiaroscuro Quartet on Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets
The members of the Chiaroscuro Quartet on combining detailed preparation while retaining a sense of spontaneity when recording Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets
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BlogsCellist Leo Eguchi: ‘How can we recognise our common humanity?’
The Japanese-American cellist shares how he uses music and metaphor to explore the stories of immigrants and first-generation Americans, via his project Unaccompanied
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Focus‘We have to fight a history of stereotyping’ - Black representation in classical music
An extract from November 2021 explores the importance of listening to Black colleagues’ perspectives without being judgemental or defensive
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis November 2022: ‘The gigging system is not set up for fuel to be this expensive’
With the cost of petrol, heating and food skyrocketing in recent months, the outlook for freelance musicians this winter is less than healthy
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Go where there is no path and leave a trail’ - Emerson Quartet: We journey together
As the Emerson Quartet embarks on its final tour, the members talk to Bruce Hodges about their instruments, their future and their past as one of the great string quartets
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Paganini’s body was buried and re-buried no less than nine times’ - From the archive: November 1932
Violinist and Paganini expert Julius Siber gives some biographical notes on the ‘demon violinist’ to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth
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Premium ❘ FeatureFinding your own sound: Standing out from the crowd
In a world that seems to value homogeneous perfection, how do you develop an individual voice on your instrument?
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Premium ❘ Feature‘I shall be obliged to drop the fiddle’ - From the archive: October 1892
Under the heading ‘Hot Hands’, readers attempt to help a novice player with that affliction in The Strad’s ‘Correspondence’ section
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FocusRachel Barton Pine and her daughter share two pieces from ‘Music by Black Composers’
A throwback performance of the duo from 2020
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: Does an orchestra’s home hall define its sound?
Edwin Barker, principal double bass of the Boston Symphony, argues that an orchestra’s ‘home’ concert hall shapes the unique character of the ensemble
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Blogs‘We have a King who is a true lover of music and art’ - Tamsin Waley-Cohen
The violinist reflects on performing for the King, the significance of the British Monarchy and its effect on the UK’s export of arts
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Blogs’When I perform, I make a subtle, yet poignant protest without a word’: Violinist Aisha Syed Castro
Aisha Syed Castro examines diverse pieces of repertoire throughout history with central messages of peace and equality
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BlogsThe Girls in the Magnesium Dress: Expanding repertoire for double bass and harp duo
Synesthetic artist, composer and double bassist Valentina Ciardelli explains why it’s important to explore new ensemble and instrumental combinations
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BlogsThe challenges of recording Pierre Jalbert’s music: Escher Quartet
Pierre Lapointe, violist of the Escher Quartet, examines some tricky corners encountered during the ensemble’s recent recording of works by Pierre Jalbert
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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: Recording Florence Price’s Second Violin Concerto
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine and conductor Jonathon Heyward speak to Harry White about recording Florence Price’s lost-and-found late work, the Second Violin Concerto
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BlogsDiscovering music by Black composers: Rachel Barton Pine
The violinist recalls her journey exploring works by overlooked composers and how embracing diverse voices promises enriching experiences
