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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Bow distribution
Violinist Alda Dizdari’s thoughts on teaching bow distribution
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Premium ❘ FocusOpinion: Adjusting instrument necks for teenage players’ growing hands
Bow maker Bernd Müsing believes that widening violin and viola necks could help young players, especially teenage boys, who find that there is no longer enough space between the strings for their growing fingertips
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: G.B. Ceruti’s restoration of a violin with worm damage
Luiz Amorim examines an intriguing c.1800 violin by G.B. Ceruti containing wood that appears to have been restored following worm damage – by the maker himself
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Dmitry Sitkovetsky on Mozart Violin Concerto no.5 first movement
Violinist and conductor Dmitry Sitkovetsky uncovers a wealth of brilliant concepts in this masterpiece and demonstrates how an awareness of the whole is what brings a performance to life
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Premium ❘ FocusAuction Report January 2024: A generous offering
A Brothers Amati violin, another by a lesser-known Guadagnini and a cello by ‘the father of the piano’ all made waves at the London sales, as Kevin MacDonald reports
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Premium ❘ Focus‘Everyone has something that makes them special’ - Carolin Widmann’s life lessons
The German violinist speaks about finding your own path and classical music’s way forward
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Martin Kuhn’s Diessenhofen workshop
Peek into the maker’s workshop located in a small Swiss village
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Premium ❘ Feature'Where’s your reindeer?’ - From the archive: January 1904
The Yorkshire poet Walter Hampson narrates a tale that, according to him, took place on Christmas Eve 1890
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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis January 2024: A case for small-group teaching
Julian Lloyd Webber’s recent comments about one-to-one tuition in conservatoires has ignited a debate: should small-group teaching be more widely offered as an alternative?
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Premium ❘ FocusPostcard from Dorset: Purbeck International Chamber Music Festival
Cellist Natalie Clein’s Purbeck International Chamber Music Festival features star players and thought-provoking themes. Charlotte Gardner enjoys the music – and an unseasonal heatwave – in the Dorset countryside
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Premium ❘ Article‘Both horse riding and cello playing need good rhythm’ - Letters to the editor: January 2024
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: January 2024 issue
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts January 2024: Schilbach UV LED torch
A torch built to be compact and long-lasting
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts January 2024: Larsen Il Cannone Gold violin strings
A new violin string set features the first ever gold D string
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Premium ❘ ArticleProducts January 2024: BAM L’Étoile Hightech Slim cello case
The case company releases new colours in an established range
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: January 2024
The latest competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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Premium ❘ FocusSentimental Work: Ilya Gringolts on Dvořák’s Romance in F minor
The Romance in F minor for violin and orchestra was the first piece by Dvořák that the Russian-born violinist ever played – and a passport into the composer’s unique harmonic sound world
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Premium ❘ Feature‘Half-hearted work is no use’ - From the archive: December 1893
Violin professor John Tiplady Carrodus (1836–95) exhorts students to show the same commitment to their craft that he did when he was a boy
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Erik Schumann on the Haydn ‘Sunrise’ Quartet, first movement
Erik Schumann, first violinist of the Schumann Quartet, looks at how a good structural understanding of the work’s first movement can lead to a more profound interpretation
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Premium ❘ FeatureMy Space: Gianmaria Stelzer’s Zurich workshop
Take a peek into this workshop located in the Swiss city’s cultural quarter
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Premium ❘ NewsPremiere of the month: Ailbhe McDonagh on her new string quartet
Irish folklore comes to life in a new quartet, which will be premiere on 6 December