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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Montreal: Montreal International Music Competition
Technical level was higher than ever before at the competition, but it was musicianship that really took centre stage, finds Rita Fernandes
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis August 2023: Changing teaching approaches for adult beginners
With an increase in the number of adults taking their first steps in playing, how do teachers adapt their teaching methods to this different discipline?
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Premium ❘ NewsPremiere of the Month: Curtis Stewart on his new piano quintet
Gilded Cage will premiere on 22 July at The Breakers in Newport, US
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Premium ❘ ArticleAugust 2023: Editor’s welcome and contents
The Strad’s editor Emma Baker introduces the August 2023 issue
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Premium ❘ Article’A phone call from Frontier Airlines offering a formal apology’ - Letters to the editor: August 2023
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: August 2023 issue
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts August 2023: CodaBow Marquise bass bow
The company’s highest-end bass bow yet
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts August 2023: Larsen ‘Direct & Focused’ violin strings
A new version of an established range
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts August 2023: Arcofrog Tadpoles frog replicas
A frog replica for easy bow hold training
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: August 2023
This month’s competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Creating f-hole templates
Luthier Aubrey K. Alexander gives her method for creating f-hole templates using a CNC machine and Fusion 360 design software
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: Rethinking Beethoven’s String Quartet op.135
Norman Werbner argues an intriguing case for a different way of performing Beethoven’s String Quartet op.135
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Premium ❘ Feature‘It gets excellent sunlight’ - My Space: Svend Christensen
A luthier in Kensington, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Copenhagen: Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition
The third edition of the the competition was a reminder of just how wondrous Nielsen’s string quartets are, says Andrew Mellor
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A c.1840 violin by Georges Chanot I
Ric W. Heinl on the French maker’s mid-century instrument
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Making a fingerboard template with aluminium
An easy, effective and useful method to make your own version instead of using ready-made templates
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Premium ❘ FeatureCarlo Bisiach’s workshop - From the archive: July 1933
A visit to Carlo Bisiach’s workshop provides one reader with an insight into his violin making process, including his methods of seasoning wood
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Premium ❘ Focus’Quality should always be the priority’ - Johannes Moser’s life lessons
The German–Canadian cellist on his teachers’ guidance and keeping physically and mentally healthy
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: Edicson Ruiz on Bach’s Cello Suites for double bass
Learning Bach’s Cello Suites was a huge challenge for the Venezuelan double bassist, for which the advice of tutor Anner Bylsma was an invaluable help
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FeatureSentimental Work: Anne-Sophie Mutter on Penderecki’s Metamorphosen
Interviewed for The Strad August 2018, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter discusses Penderecki’s Second Violin Concerto, a work that harbours undiscovered secrets
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Left-hand lightness for cellists
Richard Tunnicliffe on how to develop healthy and sustainable habits in the left hand



























