All Regulars articles – Page 33
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis January 2023: Why are the classical charts snubbing string players?
With the proliferation of recordings by non-standard ‘classical’ artists, how can record labels market them if the charts don’t recognise them?
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Premium ❘ ArticleJanuary 2023: Editor’s welcome and contents
The Strad’s editor Emma Baker introduces the January 2023 issue
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts January 2023: Wireless microphone system
A new wireless system specially made for violin
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts January 2023: Opal Gold cello strings
A cello set heralds the launch of a new range
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: January 2023
This month’s competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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Premium ❘ Article‘Too sacred to be contaminated’ - Letters to the editor: January 2023
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: January 2023 issue
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Jazz, Indian and Middle Eastern music techniques
Double bassist Daphna Sadeh-Neu on teaching techniques for jazz, Indian and Middle Eastern music
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: how chamber music develops communication and listening skills
Violist Rosalind Ventris shares her experience of the transformative power of playing chamber music
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Timbre and brilliance are not static, but dynamic’ - Making Matters: Sound ideas
Violinists and brothers Arne and Jens Rossbach share their experiments in sound and timbre
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Fitting a bridge to a violin belly
A detailed account of a process that revisits a fundamental skill for luthiers
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Premium ❘ Focus‘There is no course on how to lead an orchestra!’ - Vesko Eschkenazy’s life lessons
The Bulgarian leader of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra talks about discipline and the role of the concertmaster
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Hummel Potpourri for viola and piano
Violist Timothy Ridout considers the endless invention and simple elegance of a work written for popular appeal
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1756 baroque cello by Robert Duncan
David Rattray on the Scottish maker’s mid-18th-century baroque cello
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Premium ❘ Focus‘Keeping the accompanist on his toes’ - Postcard from Santander
Tim Homfray travels to the northern coast of Spain to experience a unique gathering of young chamber players and master musicians
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Premium ❘ Feature‘I do pretty much everything in this one room’ - My Space: Steve Burnett
Take a trip into Steve Burnett’s Edinburgh workshop
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Premium ❘ Focus‘Its brilliance overwhelmed me with emotion’ - Philippe Quint on Franck’s Violin Sonata
The Russian-born American violinist shares how César Franck’s masterpiece opened his eyes to the vast possibilities of Romantic repertoire
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis December 2022: A safe space for musicians?
As the UK government holds an inquiry into misogyny in music, the Musicians’ Union calls for further action to safeguard female players.
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Premium ❘ News‘The orchestra is a constantly changing echo chamber’ - Premiere of the Month: Electric echoes
A Baroque-inspired piece for electric violin and acoustic ensemble
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Portions of the book will hardly appear satisfactory’: From the archive: December 1902
The Hills’ book Antonio Stradivari: His Life and Work is now seen as a seminal landmark in Stradivari scholarship. The Strad ’s reviewer didn’t view it quite that way.
