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Premium ❘ ArticleAsk the Teacher - Barbara Beechey
The viola pedagogue and orchestral musician discusses how to help students perfect playing in high positions
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Ask the Teacher - Rodney Friend
The former concertmaster of the London and New York Philharmonic orchestras discusses the importance of rhythm, sound and the natural shape of the hand
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February 2020: Welcome
The Strad’s editor Charlotte Smith introduces the February 2020 issue
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Postcard from Hanover: close, but no cigar
The tenth Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition boasted a celebratory atmosphere and some fine performances, but for Charlotte Gardner, the finals were a little underwhelming
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Postcard from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Subversion in sound
Tom Stewart travels to the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival to hear music that brings the world to the strong quartet - and vice versa
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Technique: achieving balance between the chin and left thumb
Learn to reduce physical stress by distributing instrument weight more effectively across your body. By Matthew Jones, Head of chamber music and professor of viola at the Guildhall School of Music Drama, London; director of Pro Corda Intermediate Course.
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Trade secrets: making and fitting purfling
A solution to the awkward problem of how to insert strips around the neck heel area, by Hans Pluhar
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In focus: Paul Dörfel
A 1920 violin made by the Markneukirchen-based luthier Paul Dörfel. Written by Bruce Babbitt
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Postcard from London: a new generation
Stradfest, The Strad ’s first live event for budding musicians, tackled a range of issues connected to building an interesting career – and brought together a wide variety of young and enthusiastic string players, writes Charlotte Smith
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Opinion: going international
Despite the large number of young and talented British string players, few seem to make an impact as leading soloists on the world stage. Charlotte Gardner explores the reasons for this phenomenon
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Sentimental work: Rivka Golani on Michael Colgrass’ Chaconne
As well as giving the first performance of Michael Colgrass’s Chaconne , the Israeli violist provided the initial spark of inspiration – with the help of her own paintings
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Masterclass: Ravel’s second violin sonata
Philippe Graffin explores how to create an orchestra of abstract colours and characters in the first movement of the French composer’s last chamber work
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Trade secrets: cutting f-holes
A methodical way of completing this elegant but delicate part of the making process by WILLIAM CASTLE, luthier based in Whitchurch, Shropshire, UK
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In focus: a 1937 violin by Paolo De Barbieri
Paolo De Barbieri was born in 1889 in Genoa. In 1902, aged 13, he left a note on the kitchen table which read ‘Back in a minute’: he left home for about six years to work as a cabin boy. He completed his military service in the navy and in ...
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My favourite things
Norwegian cellist TRULS MØRK reveals the figures, instruments and recording that mean the most to him
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January 2020: Welcome
The Strad’s editor Charlotte Smith introduces the January 2020 issue
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Three Lives in One
Yehudi Menuhin’s extraordinarily multifaceted life and career more than surpassed the traditional role of the solo concert violinist. Here friends, family and colleagues who knew him, studied with him and worked alongside him describe their association with and memories of the great man
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Heart of the Matter - A Tribute to Dorothy DeLay
Dorothy DeLay brought compassion, humour and rigorous practice to her lessons during five decades that saw her teach two generations of string players. One hundred years after DeLay was born, Laurie Niles talks to Itzhak Perlman and other former students and assistants about her singular teaching style
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November 2019: Welcome
The Strad’s editor Charlotte Smith introduces the November 2019 issue
