All Features articles – Page 14
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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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Premium ❘ FeatureFrançois Nicolas Voirin: The style and substance of a pivotal bow maker
Matt Wehling on Voirin’s artistic and technical advances, which were implemented by most all French makers and paved the way for makers such as Lamy, Sartory and E.A. Ouchard
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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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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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Premium ❘ Feature‘The scent of fraud hangs about him’ - The Brothers Abell: Secrets and Lies
Follow the lives of two brothers embroiled scandals, lies and violins
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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 ❘ 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 ❘ FeatureSession Report: Recording Florence Price’s Second Violin Concerto
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine and conductor Jonathon Heyward speak to Harry White about recording Florence Price’s lost-and-found late work, the Second Violin Concerto
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Premium ❘ FeatureThe Viennese double bass: The long pattern
In the 18th and 19th centuries, double basses made in Vienna had distinctive shapes and characteristics that gave them tremendous sound quality.
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Premium ❘ FeatureScottish fiddle dance music: Invitation to the dance
The influence of fiddle dance music that emerged in 18th century Scotland still echoes through the reels and strathspeys of today.
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Premium ❘ FeatureRick Stotijn: Stepping into the spotlight
Double bassist Rick Stotijn is a musical pioneer, playing in every style and context from solo, chamber and orchestral music to rock and metal.
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Premium ❘ Feature’Your performance should radiate the colour of real fresh grass. Go to nature and look’ - Yuri Kramarov: A legacy regained
Russian violist and pedagogue Yuri Kramarov was one of the most important Soviet-era musicians. Misha Galaganov explores his life, career and teaching methods
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Premium ❘ FeatureCarlo Bergonzi 1735 ‘Baron Knoop’ violin: The Heir Apparent
Andrea Zanrè shows how his ‘Baron Knoop’ violin of 1735 displays an unmistakable personality despite the influence of Stradivari and his contemporaries
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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: The Villiers Quartet on recording works by Smyth and Delius
Harry White speaks to Carmen Flores and Katie Stillman of the Villiers Quartet about recording rare repertoire by a pair of British maverick geniuses – Ethel Smyth and Frederick Delius
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Premium ❘ FeatureInternational lutherie schools: All round learning
Peter Somerford speaks to teachers from seven violin making schools to find out the options for young aspiring luthiers
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FeatureLeonard Rose: All about the bow
Oskar Falta explores some of Rose’s bowing theories and speaks to former students about his teaching techniques
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Maybe the things we worry about are not the ones that matter to the music’ - Pekka Kuusisto: The Master Storyteller
Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto is characterised by his unique powers of communication as well as his sense of fun.
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Premium ❘ FeatureNewark School of Violin Making: Fifty years young
The Strad looks back on 50 years of the UK’s best-known institution for lutherie and the many well-known names who have passed through its doors as students
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Premium ❘ FeatureString education in regional Western Australia: Sitting on a gold mine
In exploring the past and present of string teaching in regional Western Australia, Rita Fernandes finds examples of both progress and regression, all pointing to the fact that where there is opportunity, there is demand and potential
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Premium ❘ FeatureThe hidden treasures of Pietro Guarneri of Mantua
Pietro Guarneri of Mantua was an undisputed master luthier, even though very few examples of his work remain. Andrea Zanrè examines three ‘violettas’ that until now have been overlooked
