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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: Landscape of shadows
Cellist Laura van der Heijden talks to Tom Stewart about the subtle, often other-worldly atmosphere inhabited by Czech and Hungarian music in her new recording with pianist Jâms Coleman
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: March 1892
Carl Fuchs pays tribute to his friend and fellow cellist Carl Davidoff (1838–89), including a reminiscence of how he acquired his famed Stradivari cello
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: It takes three
As the Sitkovetsky Trio celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, lead violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky looks back at the lessons he and his colleagues have learnt
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FocusOpinion: Live for the moment
Classical musicians and audiences can learn from stand-up comedy shows, where there’s a naturalness and immediacy of interaction between performers and the crowd, writes Rita Fernandes
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Focus10 tips for learning and teaching sightreading
Advice from The Strad’s archive on how to improve sightreading and reminders of its crucial place in any good musician’s skillset
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Blogs’There is little to no room for error’: Sightreading in a recording session orchestra
Associate concertmaster of the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and session orchestra violinist Alexandra Gorski explains the high level of sightreading required from session musicians, as well as principles she employs to nail those one-take wonders
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FocusSol Gabetta: Life Lessons
The Argentinian cellist explains why staying true to oneself and constantly evolving make for a fruitful career
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Focus‘The repertoire is about transformation, change or loss’: United Strings of Europe
Artistic director of United Strings of Europe Julian Azkoul shares the motivation behind the arrangments featured on the ensemble’s latest album Renewal
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Focus‘The viola timbre is so like a human voice’: Konstantin Boyarsky on Bruch’s Romance
The principal viola of the Royal Opera House discusses the connection between opera and Max Bruch’s Romance for Viola and Orchestra
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FocusTwo simple exercises for smooth string crossings
How to play controlled, smooth and seamless melodic lines
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FocusHybrid model: Postcard from Trondheim
The 2021 Princess Astrid International Music Competition worked around the continuing pandemic restrictions with online preliminary rounds followed by a live final on 18 November. Tim Homfray travelled north to witness some compelling performances
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Focus6 ways to improve your string crossing
Tips for even and seamless string crossing from The Strad’s archive
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FocusJohn Williams at 90: Anne-Sophie Mutter’s ‘respect for this gigantic musician’
In honour of John Williams’s 90th birthday today, here’s an extract from April 2020, where violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter spoke to Charlotte Smith about her new recording collaboration with the renowned film composer
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Blogs‘Your salad will be so tasty!’: When musicians and food collide
Paring away at old transcripts from former Strad interviewees, Rita Fernandes presents string players’ food and cooking analogies that faced the chop and didn’t make the final dish
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FocusSentimental Work: Philippe Graffin
For the Elgar Violin Concerto, the French violinist has taken advice from Yehudi Menuhin, Josef Gingold and Roger Norrington – as well as the composer’s original manuscript
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Moray Welsh on Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata first movement
Moray Welsh looks at the cello version of the first movement, whose successful execution requires boundless musicality, lyricism and technical finesse
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Premium ❘ Article‘We entered, just in time to see the bride and groom exit the church’: Letters to the Editor February 2022
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: February 2022 issue
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Premium ❘ FeatureThéotime Langlois de Swarte: Dramatic flair
French Baroque violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte has released four albums in a little over a year. He shares with Charlotte Gardner the origins of his dream of uncovering the works of long-forgotten composers – and how that project has come to fruition
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Bruch Romance for Viola and Orchestra op.85
Violist and composer Konstantin Boyarsky considers nerves, narrative and the influence of the opera in his discussion of this late Romantic piece
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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: Good as new
The second album from the United Strings of Europe features original arrangements of existing works by artistic director Julian Azkoul – but more than this, the works are thematically linked by transformation and loss, as he tells Toby Deller
