All Regulars articles – Page 56
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FocusHenning Kraggerud: Life Lessons
The Norwegian violinist and composer explores the importance of finding a work’s inner meaning when creating one’s musical voice
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Premium ❘ ArticleMay 2021: Welcome
The Strad’s editor Charlotte Smith introduces the May 2021 issue
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Premium ❘ ArticleSoundpost: Letters to the Editor May 2021
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: May 2021 issue
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Premium ❘ NewsAnalysis May 2021: Seeing the wood for the trees
A new campaign is under way to save Brazil’s endangered pernambuco tree, the wood most favoured by bow makers. The goal is clear, but the devil is in the detail. By Anthony Fort
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: May 2021
This month’s competition results, appointments and forthcoming contests
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Gluing the linings with counterforms and springs
An efficient method for a complex process, which allows freedom of movement
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: A cautionary tale for our times
When a cello suffered a calamitous hand sanitiser accident, it looked irreparable at first sight. John Simmers explains how he restored it to the way it was pre-Covid
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Alisa Weilerstein on Chopin’s Cello Sonata in G minor op.65
The American cellist explores how to bring out all the romantic charm of the first movement using fingerings and bowings, without over-reliance on vibrato, rubato or a sticky, sickly sound
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Early music articulation for modern instrumentalists
How to use Baroque bow techniques to build variety, lightness and flow into every phrase
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: May 1901
A reader takes issue with luthier and prolific contributor Arthur Broadley, and his views on the work of northern maker Walter H. Mayson which he made known in the previous edition
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: April 1991
In 1989, the Soviet Union removed a cap on the number of people allowed to emigrate from its borders. With many musicians among them, hundreds of thousands headed for Israel, as writer Yossi Schiffmann reports
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Cello warm-ups - the left-hand
Exercises and advice to help string players develop a left hand that is strong, balanced and agile
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FeatureSentimental Work: Daniel Hope
Schnittke’s First Violin Sonata was the Irish–German violinist’s introduction to the composer’s work – as well as the perfect opening to meet the composer himself
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FocusHideko Udagawa: Life Lessons
Like her teacher Nathan Milstein, the Japanese–British violinist argues that technique isn’t everything
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Premium ❘ FeatureApril 2021: Welcome
The Strad’s editor Charlotte Smith introduces the April 2021 issue
