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Premium ❘ DebateSoundpost: Letters to The Strad
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: November 2019 issue
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Belcea Quartet: Janáček, Ligeti
Restless, gripping performances that both surprise and delight
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Turning Over a New Leaf
Since her professional debut almost 30 years ago, Sarah Chang has maintained a glittering solo performing and recording career. But, as she tells Charlotte Smith, her more recent desire to take on ‘passion projects’ has led to fulfilling chamber and contemporary collaborations
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Bright Young Things
The New York String Orchestra Seminar, one of America’s first orchestral training programmes for young musicians, celebrated its 50th anniversary in December 2018. Bruce Hodges attended rehearsals and concerts of the landmark season, and looks ahead to the ensemble’s December 2019 edition
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First Class
Despite achieving a high level of quality, the American bow makers of the early 20th century have languished in obscurity – until now. Raphael Gold explores the lives of Frank Kovanda, Ernst Lohberg and Anders Halvarson, who all learnt their craft in the Chicago workshop of William Lewis ...
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Defining a Nation
For many classical enthusiasts Brazilian music can be summed up in the folk-inspired compositions of Villa-Lobos. Naxos’s multivolume series The Music of Brazil is set to broaden awareness, beginning with several 19th- and 20th-century composers whose string and orchestral works at once mirrored and defied their country’s colonial history, writes ...
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Views on the Bridge
In the second of two articles on set-up, Joseph Curtin investigates the acoustical role of the violin bridge and the interconnected relationships between mass, frequency and resonance
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Fabiola Kim: 1939
Warm and heartfelt accounts of three concertos written at the end of the 1930s
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Frang, Altstaedt, Power, Kelemen, Kokas: Veress, Bartók
Compelling live performances of folk-influenced Hungarian chamber works
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Peter Sheppard Skærved: Tartini
Plenty of expressive drama in the conclusion to this ambitious project
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Daniel Müller-Schott: Strauss
Cello stars amid a constellation of other soloists in passionate performances
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Johannes Moser, Alasdair Beatson: Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn
An exhilarating programme of works for cello and piano captures these composer siblings’ high spirits
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Elvira Misbakhova: Ichmouratov
Ambitious, attractive works blend post-modernism and touches of Prokofiev
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London Haydn Quartet: Haydn
London quartets that are both satisfying and a little provocative
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Pieter Wispelwey: Brahms, Schubert
The final instalment of these splendid additions to the cello repertoire
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Christian Tetzlaff: Beethoven
Performances of two cornerstone concertos that may divide audiences
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Hagai Shaham, Raphael Wallfisch, Arnon Erez: Beethoven
Three composers seen through a glittering Nordic prism
