Featured Stories – Page 11
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Premium ❘ FeatureCelebrating South African music: the Signum Quartet
Carlos María Solare meets the members of the Signum Quartet towards the end of their two-year-long project to commission and perform brand new works that mark 30 years since the fall of apartheid in South Africa
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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: Nemanja Radulović on the sunny side of Bach
Violinist Nemanja Radulović speaks to Tom Stewart about his no-preconceptions approach to arranging and recording some of Bach’s concertos and shorter pieces, and finding just the right balance of novelty and reverence
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Premium ❘ FeatureViolinist Ning Feng: Truth and substance
There is seemingly nothing the Chinese-born, Berlin‑based violinist Ning Feng can’t do, from dazzling Paganini interpretations to Bach to 20th‑century concertos. He talks to Michael White about his influences, his future plans and his desire to pass on his musical wisdom to the next generation
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Premium ❘ FeatureThe cosmopolitan virtuoso: Ivan Mane Jarnović
Tanja Goldberg examines the life and legacy of the violin virtuoso and composer Ivan Mane Jarnović, who died 220 years ago, and whose influence on the development of the violin concerto and violin playing in the 18th century has long lain unrecognised
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Focus‘Not bad’ meant ‘Very, very good!’: what was Leonid Kogan like as a violin teacher?
The distinguished French violinist and quartet leader Isabelle Flory studied with Leonid Kogan at the Moscow Conservatoire for three years. She shares her memories of his teaching methods
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BlogsStop falling into behaviour loops: the importance of teaching students how to practise
Violinist Hector Scott shares how bad practice habits can create the illusion of progress, and offers solutions to break the cycle
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BlogsKristin Lee: ‘Violin gave me an identity that wasn’t established through the colour of my skin’
The violinist speaks about how her experiences as a foreign-born citizen of the US laid the groundwork for her new album American Sketches, which features diverse repertoire from the country she now calls home
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Premium ❘ FeatureAn unforgotten talent: 100 years of violinist Leonid Kogan
The matchless Soviet violinist Leonid Kogan was born 100 years ago on 14 November 1924. To mark the centenary, Tully Potter examines the life of ‘the greatest violinist’ he’s ever heard in concert
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Article‘President Zelensky was only 20 feet away’: Exclusive photos and interviews with US military string players
The Strad’s staff writer Rita Fernandes shares exclusive interviews from her trip to Washington DC to meet string players in the US military
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Joachim was a revelation’ - From the archive: November 1894
Spanish violinist and conductor Enrique Fernández Arbós chats with Henry Saint-George about two of his most important tutors: Vieuxtemps and Joachim
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: cellist Astrid Schween on Dvořák’s Waldesruhe
For the American cellist, Dvořák’s Waldesruhe brings back fond memories of working with her early mentor, Jacqueline du Pré
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BlogsBeethoven’s Five Cello Sonatas - ranked!
Cellist Emily Mantone shares her personal preferences of the works, ahead of her recording release of the complete set on 8 November
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Blogs‘They have this almost telepathic way of moving’ - Chloe Bowers-Soriano on playing with the Czech Philharmonic
As part of a Royal Academy of Music SIDE-BY-SIDE scheme, the Zenith Quartet were given the chance to tour with the Czech orchestra and Semyon Bychkov. Violinist Chloe Bowers-Soriano chronicles her experience during the tour’s Prague portion
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NewsRecently discovered string trio by Mozart gets a US performance by the Bach Festival Society
US correspondent Thomas May speaks with Bach Festival Society director John V. Sinclair about the significance of the new Mozart discovery, which he has programmed side-by-side with the Requiem for the season-opening concert on 3 November.
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Blogs‘One of the most rewarding musical relationships’ - Joseph Phibbs’s string quartets recorded by the Piatti Quartet
The composer shares the inspiration behind his string quartets nos. 2-4, ahead of the recording release by the Piatti Quartet on 1 November
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: Practising scales in sequential order
While most string players agree that scales and arpeggios are the basic building blocks for good technique, cellist Robert Jesselson says that it’s essential to practise them sequentially to gain the maximum benefit
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Blogs50 per cent viola: Quartetto di Cremona shuffles instrumentation for Bach’s ‘The Art of Fugue’
The ensemble’s newest release sees second violinist Paolo Andreoli taking up the viola and violist Simone Gramaglia playing a tenor viola, in order to capture the essence of Bach’s contrapuntal writing
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FocusGreat string players of the past: Gary Karr on Sergey Koussevitzky
Gary Karr shares a spooky connection with double bassist Sergey Koussevitzky, in this article from October 2013
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BlogsBrahms, Shostakovich and John Zorn: the Junction Trio debuts at the 92nd St Y
US correspondent Thomas May speaks with violinist Stefan Jackiw and cellist Jay Campbell of the Junction Trio about their upcoming programme at the 92nd St Y, where they will give the world premiere of a new work John Zorn has written for them, alongside music by Brahms and Shostakovich.
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BlogsViolinist Yeyeong Jenny Jin on returning to New Zealand following competition success, and the Young Virtuosi Antipodean tour
The 2023 winner of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition speaks to The Strad about her tour of New Zealand and Australia with Jeonghwan Kim, as well as how discovering culinary delights provides motivation for being on the road
