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  Colin Alexander: from resembling to reassembling the human voice on the cello

  Colin Alexander reflects on what it means for a cello to sound like a voice, in light of new transcriptions of vocal works for the Early Chorus Cello Ensemble

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  A cello distortion rock-up: Zoë Martlew performs ‘G-lude’

  When a cello rocks out and sounds like an electric guitar: the cellist and composer shares some detailed insights on the extreme and experimental techniques at play in her work

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  Bach’s Sixth Suite Prelude on five-stringed baroque cello

  William Skeen shares an authentic Bach performance, ahead of appearances for Seattle Bach Festival this weekend

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  New video: Yo-Yo Ma and Icelandic choir perform ‘Earth Hymn’

  The performance of the work by Viktor Orri Árnason is a plea to the world from the edge of a changing planet

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  ‘These pieces are tied to our upbringing as a quartet’ - The Novo Quartet presents its debut album

  The Danish quartet tells The Strad what it learnt and loved about recording TRACK 1, which features Nielsen’s String Quartet no.1, Shostakovich’s String Quartet no.8 and a world premiere by Matias Vestergård

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  Five years on: the Sacconi Quartet’s pandemic-era performance of Jonathan Dove’s ‘Out of Time’

  The Strad offers an exclusive sneak peek at the Sacconi Quartet’s 4K remastered film of the work, ahead of Friday’s general release

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  Tonia Ko’s ‘Soothe a Tooth’ performed by violist Stephen Upshaw

  The violist additionally shares his thoughts on the work, described as ’an exercise in not trying to beautify every sound but to admit vulnerability’ which vividly captures the anxiety of 2020 and life in lockdown

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  Violinist Maya Magub celebrates Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s 150th anniversary with ‘Valse Mauresque’

  Magub performs alongside pianist Matthew Schellhorn, on a work that features on their new album of Coleridge Taylor’s Four Characteristic Waltzes

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  Signum Quartet performs Priaulx Rainier’s Scherzo

  The work features on the quartet’s new album A Dark Flaring, which spotlights works by South African composers

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  Cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia performs his own composition, ‘Ouróboros’

  Alongside pianist Naoko Sonoda, the cellist performs a work that explores the ancient Egyptian and Greek symbol for cycles of life, death and rebirth

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  Cellist Sterling Elliott performs Kevin Day’s ‘Gymnopédie I’

  Elliott and pianist Wynona Wang perform the ‘dreamy and otherworldly’ work for the Lincoln Center’s Sidewalk Sessions

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  At the World’s Edge: Huw Watkins String Trio no.2

  The release of the recording follows the launch of the Chicago edition of the New Zealand-born At the World’s Edge Festival, which aims to connect the creative communities of Chicago, the US and New Zealand

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