All Regulars articles – Page 42
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Premium ❘ Focus‘Some of the most otherworldly violin lines I can imagine’ - Jack Liebeck on Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no.1
Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto provided some early inspiration for the British violinist – as well as a crash course in some fast, efficient playing
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Premium ❘ ArticleSeptember 2022: Editor’s welcome and contents
The Strad’s editor Emma Baker introduces the September 2022 issue
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Premium ❘ Article‘Centuries ago, Stradivari had no idea ivory would be subject to legal issues’: Letters to the editor September 2022
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: September 2022 issue
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts September 2022: Dolfinos chin and shoulder rest
A chin and shoulder rest system receives a lightweight makeover
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts September 2022: BAM Youngster violin case
The range has been updated to fit 1/8- and 1/4-size instruments
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts September 2022: D’Addario hypoallergenic rosin
A rosin designed to avoid allergic reactions
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: September 2022
This month’s competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Making a Baroque cello bridge
A method that allows the luthier to create their own design rather than rely on a pre-cut template
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: A teenage cellist on spreading the love for classical music
Megan Clarke, a 16-year-old cellist in the National Youth Orchestra, is on a mission to communicate her love of classical music to other young people
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Free and ringing, never forced’ - Technique: Developing bow control for improved tone
Violist Martin Outram on mix of exercises to help you draw out sound actively and attentively with the right hand
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: How six bow makers crafted a bow in three days
Making a bow in three days is a tall order for anyone – but for six bow makers together? Pierre Nehr explains how April’s ‘Bow Rush’ event in Paris became an educational experience for all concerned
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Creating sound from the imagination
Iagoba Fanlo, professor of cello at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón and Alfonso X El Sabio University in Spain, on daily practice tools to help you realise your inner musical vision on your instrument
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Premium ❘ Feature‘We should always listen carefully to the quality of our tone’ - Technique: Working on open strings
Cellist Denis Severin provides exercises to help you build up a strong, reliable right hand, with a consistently beautiful sound
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Premium ❘ Focus‘When Mandela asked how I was, I admitted I was nervous’ - Maria Kliegel on Hommage à Nelson M.: Sentimental Work
The German cellist recalls the creation of Hommage à Nelson M., inspired by the life of Nelson Mandela – and the long road to performing it in front of the man himself
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Martin Krause
The luthier, based in Saarbrücken, Germany, invites us into his workshop
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Mozart String Quartet K428
In the first movement of Mozart’s third ‘Haydn’ quartet Johanna Staemmler, second violinist of the Armida Quartet, discusses the importance of harmony, colour and intellectual complexity
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Premium ❘ FeatureIn Focus: A 1766 cello by Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi
Philip Brown looks at the Milanese maker’s mid-century instrument
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Premium ❘ Focus‘It’s not about you; it’s about the music’: Helena Rathbone’s life lessons
The Australian Chamber Orchestra’s British principal violinist considers the pivotal role of chamber music throughout her career
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis August 2022: ‘Teachers and examiners have been very patient, but it’s been frustrating for everyone’
Music teachers and students have recently expressed concerns about the ABRSM, the UK’s leading music examining board. How is it responding to the criticism? By Peter Somerford
