Featured Stories – Page 125
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Focus10 views on the benefits of slow practice
Debate on how best to harness slow practice from The Strad Archive
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BlogsA 6-point plan for exploring contemporary music
Ross Snyder, first violin for the Tesla Quartet, offers encouragement and a practical primer on incorporating new music into your chamber repertoire
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FocusRachel Podger: 'I played Bach at home in secret'
Bach’s E major Violin Concerto proved to be a defining work on the Baroque violinist’s path towards the period performance movement – despite the peculiar attitudes of her teachers
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FocusIn numbers: the cost of maintaining an instrument during the course of a career
Have you ever thought about how much you will spend in total over the years to keep your instrument in working order? Drew McManus spills the beans, and then counts them
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VideoHilary Hahn on her new Bach disc
Tying in with our cover feature about Hilary Hahn, this video gives us a taste of what to expect from her second CD of solo Bach, which comes two decades after her first.
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FocusHow do you go about making your first recording?
From capturing the attention of a suitable label to choosing appropriate repertoire, making your first album isn’t easy. Charlotte Gardner talks to those in the know about how to get it right.
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VideoNicola Benedetti plays Wynton Marsalis
In this video Nicola Benedetti describes her experience of playing Wynton Marsalis’s jazz-inspired Violin Concerto, before performing the solo cadenza.
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BlogsAlena Baeva champions Karłowicz's ‘brilliant and captivating’ concerto
Alena Baeva, who won the Wieniawski Violin Competition aged 16 in 2001, writes about her love for one of the lesser known gems of the violin repertoire
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Blogs5 tips for learning the Walton Viola Concerto
Norwegian violist Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad discusses the crucial challenges of one of his instrument’s core repertoire concertos
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FocusDo string players who refuse to embrace popular music face extinction?
String players must embrace the vernacular of today’s popular music or risk being consigned to a bygone era, writes electric violinist Tracy Silverman
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VideoInterpretation Class with Benjamin Zander
In this video, violinist Yasmin Myers takes a masterclass with Benjamin Zander, musical director of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, on Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto.
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Focus10 ways to avoid tension in your playing
Advice on how to be flexible and relaxed as a string player from 120 years of The Strad
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VideoOleksandr Pushkarenko performs at the Enescu International Violin Competition
As part of the first round of this year’s George Enescu International Violin Competition, the Ukrainian violinist Oleksandr Pushkarenko, who is studying for a a Masters at the Niccolò Paganini Conservatory of Genoa in Italy, performs the first movement of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No 5 in A Major, K.219.
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FocusFunctional Fingering
An article on ways to move around the fingerboard without upsetting your musical flow by Leo Phillips
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VideoKerson Leong plays Jean-Marie Leclair's Sonata No 5
The Canadian violinist Kerson Leong performs the third movement of Jean-Marie Leclair’s Sonata No 5 for 2 violins in duet with himself.
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VideoGabriele Ragghianti demonstrates Italian double bass bow hold
In this video from D’Addario Orchestral, double bassist Gabriele Ragghianti, who teaches at the Royal College of Music and the Luigi Boccherini Institute of Music, explains how to perfect an Italian bass bow hold. Ragghianti plays D’Addario Kaplan strings - click here for more information
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Premium ❘ FeatureAntonio Pappano: What conductors want from their string sections
A regular, nice, beautiful sound doesn’t interest the music director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, he told The Strad in this interview from 2008
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VideoEurovision Young Musicians semi-final 2018
In these videos German violinist Mira Foron and Czech double bassist Indi Stivín give it their all in the semi-final of Eurovision Young Musicians 2018.
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FocusAsk the Experts: minimising excessive body movements
We asked four string pedagogues to give their thoughts on eliminating or cutting down on excessive body movements when playing
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FocusA step-by-step guide to keeping your bridge healthy
Tuning your instrument will naturally pull your bridge out of position, so you need to overcome your fear of touching it – as well as knowing when professional help is needed, writes Adam Pelzer
