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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis September 2023: Technology and access to fine instruments
Having survived the pandemic, the city of Cremona is embracing new technology in its efforts to bring its violin making heritage to the world
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: The importance (and difficulty) of playing softly
As string players, we are often encouraged to make a big sound, but cellist Davina Shum believes that the art of playing quietly is an underrated one
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts September 2023: GaiaTone bass fingerboard
A new, ebony-alternative double bass fingerboard
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts September 2023: Schilbach sanding sticks
Multi-purpose sticks for sanding during instrument making
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Premium ❘ ArticleSeptember 2023: Editor’s welcome and contents
The Strad’s editor Emma Baker introduces the September 2023 issue
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Premium ❘ Article‘His brush was coated with butter’ - Letters to the editor: September 2023
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: September 2023 issue
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: September 2023
This month’s competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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Premium ❘ Feature‘I can say with conviction that she can play Bach’ - From the archive: August 1923
Violinist Arthur Broadley, a long-standing contributor, profiles cellist Beatrice Eveline, said to have given the BBC’s first classical music broadcast in 1922
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: EFT for performance anxiety
Violinist Jenny Clift struggled with performance anxiety until she discovered an unusual therapeutic technique
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Players have knocked on my door in a panic’ - My Space: David Segal
The luthier gives an overview of his busy Manhattan workshop
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Adding primer before varnish
Before varnishing their instruments, most luthiers add a layer of primer. Vlado Tilev looks at the types available, and their effect on sound quality
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: Julian Rachlin on Shostakovich’s String Quartet no.8
For the Lithuanian violinist, the haunting musical language of Shostakovich’s String Quartet no.8 brings back treasured memories of working with Mstislav Rostropovich
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: a 1759 viola by Petter Hellstedt
Stefan Lindholm examines an instrument by the Swedish maker
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: A platform for gluing a broken button
A method that takes the guesswork and uncertainty out of this challenging repair job
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Premium ❘ NewsPremiere of the Month: Roxanna Panufnik’s new work for strings and voices
Voice and strings combine for a poetic lullaby
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1947 violin by Frantisek Zivec
Matthieu Besseling on the Bohemian maker’s mid-century instrument
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Double bass sound production
Alexandra Scott on starting to free your sound on the double bass
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Premium ❘ Focus‘I imagine dialogues with Schumann and Bartók!’ - Rachel Barton Pine’s life lessons
The US violinist on her unique journey and the importance of keeping artistic integrity
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Dvořák Violin Concerto, first movement
In a work that had a complicated gestation Pavel Šporcl draws on its different influences to celebrate its parts and better understand it as a whole
