All Regulars articles – Page 10
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Schubert Fantasy for violin and piano – part one
Violinist Alena Baeva stresses the importance of slow and attentive practice when embarking on the opening sections of this monumental work, in the first of a two-part article
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Windsor: Windsor Festival International String Competition
Charlotte Gardner reports from the first in-person Windsor Festival International String Competition to take place since 2019, and discovers that the talented competitors still have everything to play for
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis July 2024: The dangers of ticket reselling
With the music festival season already under way, how can venues and festival organisers help protect customers from the scourge of online secondary ticketing sites?
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Premium ❘ Feature‘An old country man playing on a fiddle’ - From the archive: July 1894
In ‘Fiddlers on Canvas’, The Strad surveys paintings at the London art exhibitions of interest to string players. The young lady ‘lost in reverie’ grows up to be Agatha Christie
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Premium ❘ ArticleJuly 2024: Editor’s welcome and contents
The Strad’s editor Emma Baker introduces the July 2024 issue
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Premium ❘ Article‘We musicians are so spoilt’ - Letters to the editor: July 2024
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: July 2024 issue
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts July 2024: Bogaro & Clemente humidity control device
The device can both increase and decrease humidity in the instrument case
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: A workshop facility to measure violin family acoustics
Creating an apparatus for routine quick and easy measurements while making and setting up the violin and related instruments
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: Independence of the left-hand thumb
To free up left-hand technique, violinist and teacher Martin Goldman encourages players to think more carefully about their thumb as an independent entity, yet still in close partnership with the four fingers
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: Andrés Cárdenes on Chausson’s Poème
The Cuban-born violinist feels a rapport with the opulence of Chausson’s Poème – particularly with the revisions by its dedicatee, Eugène Ysaÿe
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1927 violin by Evasio Emilio Guerra
Andrea Schudtz examines the Turin maker’s early 20th-century instrument
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Bridge position of the pochette instrument
One of the most unusual stringed instruments, the pochette can be found on show in many museum collections – but is it being displayed properly? Wim Raymaekers argues that the bridge position needs to be rethought
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Premium ❘ Focus‘We must be aware of our choices’ - violinist Jennifer Koh’s life lessons
The US violinist on the importance of our decisions and promoting inclusivity
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Premium ❘ Feature‘He was taking a very large elephant to America’ - From the archive: June 1904
Violinist Archie Easton presents some ‘reminiscences of John Frederick Lott’ (1804–70), including his brief spell as an elephant trainer for a circus
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Practising 5ths
Violinist Nicholas Dupont outlines using simplification to achieve better technique
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Franck Violin Sonata on double bass, first movement
Taking inspiration from Jacqueline du Pré and singers, double bassist Michael Rieber shares tips on cultivating Franck’s delicate sound world, despite playing stratospherically high on the instrument
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Utrecht: Netherlands Violin Competition and Night of the Violin festival
Laurence Vittes found himself impressed by the talent at the Netherlands Violin Competition in Utrecht, as well as swept away by the diverse array of non-classical styles at its sister Night of the Violin festival
