Featured Stories – Page 51
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Article‘It was like the earth moved beneath me’ - violinist Leonidas Kavakos on playing the ’Willemotte’ Stradivari
Kavakos describes his first encounter with the 1734 violin, made when Antonio Stradivari was 90 years old
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Blogs‘Like day and night’: The Jubilee Quartet on two contrasting Schubert works
The Jubilee Quartet reflects on two Schubert string quartets that represent starkly different periods of the composer’s life
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Blogs‘Like solving a Rubik’s Cube while dancing at the same time’: violinist Robert McDuffie
Robert McDuffie reflects on the challenges of works by John Adams, Philip Glass and John Corigliano ahead of his album release on 4 November
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Premium ❘ Focus‘I was falling in love with chamber music all over again’ - Postcard from Napa Valley
Laurence Vittes finds that the combination of chamber music and the vineyards of California’s Napa Valley makes a festival that’s hard to resist
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BlogsHow to improve your aural skills and ditch your sheet music in 5 easy steps
Simplicity, curiosity and diligence are the keys to learning by ear, according to violinist Lissa Schneckenburger
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Premium ❘ Feature‘I want to write music where the sensibilities of the player are encouraged’ - Caroline Shaw
The youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Caroline Shaw talks to Toby Deller about her eclectic influences and finding inspiration in the most unlikely places
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GalleryA walk through the Giovanni Bottesini exhibition
An exhibition celebrating the life and times of the influential double bassist was held from 10 to 18 October in Crema, Italy
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Premium ❘ FeatureBlack community orchestras in the US: Hidden histories
During America’s 20th-century social inequalities, African American musicians set up their own community orchestras, Eliesha Nelson traces their history and legacy
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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
