All Issue articles
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ReviewJean-Guihen Queyras: Complices
A fabulously accomplished collection of encores from accomplices
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Antje Weithaas, Maximilian Hornung: Schumann
Wonderfully elegant and well-balanced interpretations of two concertos
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Untold: The Ciderhouse Rebellion
Improvising folk fiddler and accordion player create spontaneous magic
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Elgar
Young cellist steps up to the mark in this most iconic of concertos
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Vilde Frang: Paganini, Schubert, Liszt, Ernst
Seductive phrasing and scintillating technique in an inspired recital
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Diana Tishchenko: Strangers in Paradise
Prize-winning violinist demonstrates her mettle in an eloquent recital
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Lutherie in the Vogtland: Stars of the East
The Vogtland in eastern Germany produced some of the country’s least known and most fascinating instrument makers. Rudolf Hopfner and Monika Lustig use CT scans to lift the lid on their unusual construction methods, and show why they should be more widely studied
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Pöpel and Kurzendörffer: The Mists of Time Demystified
Just three Vogtland instruments exist from before 1700. All violas, they were made by two of the founders of the region’s first violin making guild. Klaus Martius explores what we know about the mysterious Johann Adam Pöpel and Johann Adam Kurzendörffer
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Session Report: A Voyage of Discovery
French composer Benoît Menut’s new concept album of songs and chamber works takes its listeners on a single, continuous journey across the sea. He and cellist Patrick Langot speak to Tom Stewart about the project
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Béla Katona: A Pupil’s Perspective
Former Béla Katona student Dona Lee Croft, now a professor, recalls her lessons with the Hungarian pedagogue
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Béla Katona: A Teacher Through and Through
One of the 20th century’s greatest violin pedagogues, Béla Katona would have turned 100 this month. Tully Potter charts his life and career, and speaks to former pupils – mainly at London’s Trinity College of Music – about the success of his teaching methods
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April 2020: Welcome
The Strad’s editor Charlotte Smith introduces the April 2020 issue
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Rachel Barton Pine: Dvořák and Khachaturian
Atmospheric, subtly thought-out playing touching on the mystical
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Book review: I Segreti di Sgarabotto
John Dilworth explores Andrea Zanrè’s mammoth work paying tribute to luthiers Gaetano and Pietro Sgarabotto
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Book review: Beethoven’s String Quartet in B Flat Major op.130: Four Lectures
Robin Stowell reviews a book bringing together four lectures by musicologist Hans Keller
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Book review: Heritage: Cello Etudes of Past Masters
Janet Banks reviews a book of etudes from the Swedish cello virtuoso and teacher
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Concert review: Longleash, Ches Smith (percussion)
Pala Garcia, Renate Rohlfing and John Popham perform at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church on 12 January 2020
