Featured Stories – Page 19
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BlogsThe fiddler on the roof: Tomás Cotik performs Bach projected over university plaza
The project was part of the Portland Winter Light Festival 2023 with the aim of bringing musical solace during the darkest depths of winter
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Blogs‘I could never change cellos, we have a strong history together’: Dom La Nena
Not only an instrument, but also a companion and source of solace, the Brazilian cellist pays homage to her cello ‘Leon’ via a new album of compositions
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FocusWords of Wisdom: Violist Hsin-Yun Huang
The violist shared insights from her musical career in our July 2011 issue
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Premium ❘ FeatureThe Baryton: How a forgotten instrument is making a comeback
Gavin Dixon reports on the comeback of ‘the king of instruments’
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Kerteminde: Chamber Music at Lundsgaard
The beautiful Lundsgaard Estate on the Danish island of Funen is the setting for an imaginative summer chamber music festival, as Emma Baker discovers
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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: The Calidore Quartet on recording Beethoven’s late quartets
Peter Quantrill hears from the Calidore Quartet about how Beethoven involves intense preparation and a sense of ‘leaning into the weird’
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Premium ❘ Feature‘We learnt from her a love and respect for music’ - cellist Natalia Shakhovskaya
Oskar Falta examines Natalia Shakhovskaya’s life and hears from some of her former pupils about her exacting teaching style
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Premium ❘ Feature‘I had to give ten encores in succession’: From the archive: March 1903
Violinist Marie Hall, then just 18 years of age, talks to The Strad about studying with Otakar Ševčík and her burgeoning international career
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FocusWords of Wisdom: Double bassist Gary Karr
The double bassist offered advice from his playing and teaching career in our June 2011 issue
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BlogsCristian Grajner de Sá on works by Amy Beach, Ethel Smyth and Clara Schumann
The violinist shines a light on works by three pioneering female composers, ahead of a recital at Champs Hill in March
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: Are regional differences in orchestral tuning really necessary?
Historically, orchestras have tuned to slightly different versions of the note A. Thomas Eisner wonders whether such gradations really matter
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Ambitious in the way we prepared, not about where we wanted to be’: 20 years of the Danish Quartet
Andrew Mellor talks to the Danish Quartet as they embark on their 20th-anniversary season
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Gallery‘It felt like a Ferrari - 0 to 100 in just a few seconds’: Yuriy Bekker on his Andrea Guarneri violin
The violinist shares his experience of recording Edward Hart’s Under an Indigo Sky on the 1688 ‘ex Degen’ Andrea Guarneri violin
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FocusWords of Wisdom: Cellist Frans Helmerson
The Swedish cellist shared his insights on playing and teaching in the May 2011 issue of The Strad
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BlogsFiddling with Ownership: The importance of owning your violin music rights
Donna Maurer offers some points to consider when recording music for commercial use
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Focus‘Nupen, you have found yourself a star’ - working with Jacqueline du Pré
Christopher Nupen remembers his time documenting Jacqueline du Pré at the height of her musical career, in this extract from the October 2021 issue
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BlogsBeyond the Metronome - Benjamin Zander on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Ahead of a performance with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on 26 February, the conductor reflects on tempo choices and character in this monumental work
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: Schubert’s Eighth and Ninth symphonies
Recording Schubert’s Eighth and Ninth symphonies after a lifetime of earlier works was an intriguing challenge for veteran Catalan–Spanish gambist and conductor Jordi Savall
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Blogs‘American Stories’ Chronicled: A Contemporary Recording for a Contemporary Time
Violinist of the Pacifica Quartet Austin Hartman writes about how shining a light on marginalised voices in American history provided inspiration for their latest album with clarinetist Anthony McGill
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FocusWords of Wisdom: Fiddler Dave Swarbrick
The influential English fiddler shared his musical insights in our April 2011 issue