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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: October 2019
Anna Agafia Egholm COMPETITION RESULTS The Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in Sion, Switzerland, awarded its first prize to 23-year-old Danish violinist Anna Agafia Egholm. A former student of Svetlana Makarova at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne, Egholm also won the award for the best ...
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NewsNew Products: October 2019
Ready for boarding An instrument with a detachable neck to make air travel easier Readers of The Strad will be no strangers to the perennial risks associated with flying with stringed instruments. Barely a week goes by without another story of a passenger denied boarding with their ...
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Recreating original purfling
Precision and care are prerequisites for this detailed restoration method
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Premium ❘ FeatureMaking Matters: Ten out of ten
The great 19th-century French bow makers had to produce a large amount of stock to make a living. Christophe Landon explores how their working methods differed from ours, as he makes ten simultaneous copies of one Peccatte bow
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Premium ❘ FeatureMasterclass: Daniel Müller-Schott on Franck Violin Sonata (Cello Version)
The German cellist looks at the importance of connection, colour and line in the work’s third movement
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Premium ❘ FeatureTechnique: Mapping out the fingerboard
Exercises to train your brain and fingers, to help you become a more fluent performer and improviser
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: October 1939
The Strad responds to the declaration of war on 3 September with advice on how cellists can do their bit by programming feel-good standards for troops and civilians
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FeatureSilver linings: Postcard from Vail
The opening of the 2019 Bravo! Vail Music Festival was beset by last-minute programme changes and inclement weather – yet proved to be a rousing success, as Charlotte Smith reports
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Premium ❘ FeatureTrade Secrets: Asymmetric neck shaping
A method that allows for deviation from the standard neck outline, for the comfort of the individual player
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FeatureRenaud Capuçon: Life Lessons
The French soloist talks to Tom Stewart about developing perspective, what teaching has taught him and how he learns from his own students
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DebateOpinion: A limit to learning?
Do some string students have a ceiling when it comes to their capacity to learn? Naomi Yandell explores the question through her experience of teaching a cello student with special needs
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Premium ❘ ArticleSeptember 2019: Welcome
The Strad’s editor Charlotte Smith introduces the September 2019 issue
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ArticleSoundpost: Letters to the Strad
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: September 2019 issue
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Premium ❘ NewsCompetitions, Awards and Appointments: September 2019
Tchaikovsky Competition cello section winner Zlatomir Fung. Photo courtesy Astral Artists COMPETITION RESULTS The International Tchaikovsky Competition has announced its 2019 winners across all categories. Among the violinists, first prize went to Russian 30-year-old Sergey Dogadin, a student of Boris Kuschnir at the Music and Arts University ...
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NewsNew Products: September 2019
Core values Strings designed from the inside out to offer bassists maximum flexibility The initial idea was to make a special pizzicato string,’ explains Adrian Müller, technical director of German string maker Pirastro. ‘After a year of experimenting with different cores, we found that we had ...
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Premium ❘ FeatureSentimental Work: Barry Guy
The British double bassist recalls his first encounters with Iannis Xenakis’s solo work Theraps – including some frank exchanges with the composer himself
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FeaturePlaying fit for a queen: Postcard from Brussels
This year’s Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium was devoted to the violin, and showcased a set of distinct and accomplished performances by the twelve finalists, as Tim Homfray reports
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FeatureAnton Lukoszevieze: Life Lessons
The British cellist, composer and founder of new music group Apartment House on John Cage and how visual art helped to open his mind
