All Issue articles
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Premium ❘ ArticleNovember 2021: Welcome
The Strad’s editor Charlotte Smith introduces the November 2021 issue
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Review
Book review: The Sheku Kanneh-Mason Cello Collection
Janet Banks reviews the superstar cellist’s first compendium of pieces for his instrument
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Book review: The Paganini of the Double Bass: Bottesini in Britain
Stephen Street reviews one of the first works in English on the great 19th-century double bassist Giovanni Bottesini
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Book review: 1 Teaches 2 Learn: Private music teaching and you
Celia Cobb reviews a book (and e-book) filled with interviews and advice from a lifetime of string teaching
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Review round-up: BBC Proms 2021
Peter Quantrill attends the cream of the strings crop during this year’s Proms season at the Royal Albert Hall
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Jennifer Pike: The Polish Violin: Volume 2
Volume two of Pike’s Polish odyssey hits the mark with magical playing
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Janine Jansen: 12 Stradivari
Some first-class performances of much-recorded violin cornerstones
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Silesian Quartet: Penderecki
Emotional and committed retrospective of 20th-century composer’s string quartets
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Rosanne Philippens: Haydn, Stravinsky
Innately musical playing of Haydn concertos peppered with Stravinsky
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Engegård Quartet: Mozart
Elegant, understated yet sparkling playing of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ quartets
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Augusta and Georgina McKay Lodge: Chamber Music from the Court of Frederick the Great
Exuberant playing of virtuoso works fit for a music-loving king
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ARC Ensemble: Klebanov
Ukrainian composer’s quartets are an important addition to the repertoire
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Christoph Croisé: The Solo Album
Virtuoso and dramatic exploration of a century of solo cello music
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Eliot Quartet: Thème Russe
Quartet celebrates folk connections with luminous finesse and a spicy kick
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Escher Quartet: Barber, Ives
American quartets receive wonderfully striking and immediate interpretations
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Video
Masterclass: The Takács Quartet performs Brahms’s String Quartet no.3
Violist Richard O’Neill gives his thoughts on performing the work in the November 2021 issue
