Playing – Page 11
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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 ❘ Focus‘As a violist, you’re in the thick of it’ - Hank Dutt’s life lessons
The American Kronos Quartet violist on his enduring love for chamber music
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Premium ❘ Focus‘It has to be connected to your soul’ - Nobuko Imai on Mozart Symphony no.40
The Japanese violist recalls how playing Mozart’s Symphony no.40 under Pablo Casals proved a life-changing experience
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Premium ❘ Feature‘He is a similar weirdo, in the good sense!’ - Rick 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 ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: the difficulties of playing in tune
The Strad writer E. Polonaski bemoans the number of string players with suspect intonation in our March 1893 issue
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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 ❘ Focus‘A perfect balance between competition and festival’ - Postcard from Bordeaux Quartet Competition
Charlotte Gardner reports from a newly reinvigorated and audience-friendly Vibre! Bordeaux festival and International String Quartet Competition
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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 ❘ Focus‘I believe in contributing to a team of players, rather than just blending in’ - Carmine Lauri’s life lessons
The co-leader of the London Symphony Orchestra on growing up in a musical family in Malta and the importance of keeping one’s individuality
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: How learning a language can inform musical practice
Naomi Yandell’s efforts to learn a language using Duolingo have inspired her to rethink the way she teaches her own students, particularly with regard to repetitive practice
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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 ❘ 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 ❘ Focus‘The atmosphere was exceptionally energetic and full of excitement’ - Postcard from the Sibelius Violin Competition
Kare Eskola reports from Helsinki on 2022’s emotionally charged International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, the first to take place for seven years
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Play to the exit sign!’ - Pinchas Zukerman: A matter of time
Pauline Harding visits Dallas, Texas, to chat with violinist– violist Pinchas Zukerman about his illustrious past, a new masterclass series at Meadows School of the Arts, and his hopes for the future of technology in string teaching
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Premium ❘ Feature‘The system proceeded upon was in every way unsatisfactory’ - From the archive: September 1922
Author and expert Towry Piper condemns a recent blind-testing experiment for old and new violins, giving his own opinion on why such endeavours are doomed to failure
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Premium ❘ Focus‘Some of the most otherworldly violin lines I can imagine’ - Jack Liebeck on Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no.1
Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto provided some early inspiration for the British violinist – as well as a crash course in some fast, efficient playing
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: A teenage cellist on spreading the love for classical music
Megan Clarke, a 16-year-old cellist in the National Youth Orchestra, is on a mission to communicate her love of classical music to other young people
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Premium ❘ FeatureSession Report: A Precious Gift - Playing Britten’s viola
Benjamin Britten’s 19th-century viola was a present to him from Frank Bridge. Violist Hélène Clément speaks to Carlos María Solare about recording an album featuring music by both composers on which this remarkable instrument takes centre stage
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Premium ❘ Feature'The better my body is working, the more efficient I can be' - Elena Urioste: She’s like a rainbow
The award-winning violinist Elena Urioste has many strands to her career. She speaks to Toby Deller about making her BBC Proms debut, yoga, chamber music with friends, and how she kept the music alive during lockdown
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Premium ❘ Focus‘When Mandela asked how I was, I admitted I was nervous’ - Maria Kliegel on Hommage à Nelson M.: Sentimental Work
The German cellist recalls the creation of Hommage à Nelson M., inspired by the life of Nelson Mandela – and the long road to performing it in front of the man himself