All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 147
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FocusFrom the archive: classic and modern violins compared
A report and subsequent correspondence in The Strad, 1935, show that instrument blind tests offered provocative results even then
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FocusWhat criteria should be followed to determine what bowing to use in bass music?
Teacher Talk: your string teaching questions answered by our panel of experts
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FocusShould one borrow, hire or buy the first violin for a beginner?
Teacher Talk: your string teaching questions answered by our panel of experts
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ArticleJoshua Bell's busking experiment
In 2007, our November cover star Joshua Bell tried an experiment with the Washington Post. He set up a busking pitch in the Washington D.C. Metro during rush hour, started playing Bach, and waited to see who would listen. The results were surprising, as you will see. ...
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FocusWhat competition success did for my career – by six prize-winners
Seasoned competition goer Heather Kurzbauer considers the place of competitions today, and violin laureates discuss how their wins have helped their careers
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ArticleRevitalised Universal Music Classics label signs string trio Time for Three
Time for Three, the classically trained, multi-genre spanning string trio from the US, is the first signing by the new Universal Music Classics label, recently launched by Universal Music Group.Formerly known as the Decca Label Group, the new label signifies a ‘revitalised commitment’ on the part of Universal Music towards ...
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ArticleSimon Fischer: The Secrets of Tone Production
Simon Fischer, writer of The Strad's long-running Basics column, introduces his teaching film The Secrets of Tone Production on All Bowed String Instruments.Featuring simple but instantly effective exercises for building, improving or maintaining fine and sensitive tone on any bowed string instrument. All demonstrated on the violin by Simon Fischer, ...
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FocusHow to market yourself as a string player
You need flexibility and business acumen as well as talent to stand out from the crowd in today's rapidly changing music world, argues double bassist-turned-agent Corrado Canonici
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FocusThe stolen instruments of the Third Reich
In an article from 2009, Carla Shapreau exposes the systematic theft of stringed instruments under Hitler's rule, and today's efforts to locate them
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ReviewBritten: Suites for solo cello; Tema ‘Sacher’
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Strongly characterised accounts from a meticulous playerMusicians: Jamie Walton (cello)Composer: BrittenWith this recording of the Suites for solo cello, British cellist Jamie Walton has now committed all of Britten’s cello works to disc. They are excellent interpretations with an exceptional sense of flow, and ...
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GalleryFrom the archive: an 1847 Joseph Rocca
This 1847 Rocca was featured in the March 1915 issue of The Strad, accompanied by the following text: ‘There is something in the nature of evidence that the subject of this article was a member of a family of makers. That he worked with Pressenda is certain; but it ...
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ReviewTaylor: Viola Concerto (Humoreskes), Symphony no.2
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Definitive interpretations of impressively constructed musicMusicians: Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola) BBC Symphony Orchestra/Garry WalkerComposer: Taylor The Viola Concerto by London-born Matthew Taylor (b.1964) was written in 2010 and premiered by Sarah-Jane Bradley the following year. Its five short movements ...
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ArticleThe Musical Art Quintet performs El Viejito
The Musical Art Quintet are one of the featured ensembles in our article 'Gateway to Inspiration', about San Francisco's alternative chamber music scene, published in the November issue of The Strad. Here they perform El Viejito by Sascha Jacobsen. Read Gateway to Inspiration in The Strad, November 2013. Subscribe to The Strad ...
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ArticleMaxim Vengerov named Oxford Philomusica artist-in-residence
Maxim Vengerov has been named as the Oxford Philomusica’s first artist-in-residence, in the year the orchestra celebrates its 15th anniversary. The Russian violinist first appeared with the orchestra earlier this year in a performance of the Britten and Dvorák concertos at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, conducted by its ...
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ArticleDel Sol Quartet and Garrett+Moulton Productions perform Stringwreck
The Del Sol Quartet and choreographers Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton present Stringwreck, an innovative music-dance collaboration performed live at California Polytechnic State University, on 15 April 2011. The Del Sol Quartet are one of the featured ensembles in our article 'Gateway to Inspiration', about San Francisco's alternative chamber music ...
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ReviewDvorák: Cello concertos in A major (rev. and orch. by Günther Raphael) & in B minor op.104 (with original ending); Lasst mich allein op.82 no.1 (arr. Leopold)
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: An enterprising coupling somewhat let down by a routine early compositionMusicians: Steven Isserlis (cello) Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Daniel HardingComposer: DvorákContinuing his tradition of releasing enterprising and imaginative discs, Steven Isserlis’s Dvorák compilation offers an orchestrated version of the op.82 song quoted in the ...
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Article2013 ARD Music Competition winner Yura Lee – video portrait
This year only one first prize was awarded at the ARD Music Competition in Munich, Germany – to South Korean Yura Lee in the viola division. Lee, a 28-year-old violinist and violist, discusses her life and music making in this video portrait, which includes excerpts of the ...
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ArticleTop lots from London and New York October sales
Bonhams, Brompton’s, Ingles & Hayday and Tarisio have released the results of their October auctions. At Ingles & Hayday’s London sale a violin owned by the violinist Leila Josefovicz and catalogued as ‘probably by Michele Angelo Bergonzi’ fetched £156,000, and a Storioni viola with an estimate of £100,000–£150,000 ...
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ReviewWeinberg: Complete music for violin and piano
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: The dark side of human life conveyed in gripping performancesMusicians: Linus Roth (violin) José Gallardo (piano)Composer: WeinbergAnyone who adores Shostakovich’s violin music should find Weinberg’s distinctive musical voice very much to their taste. He too found a way of expressing the dark ...
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FocusHow to deal with unsupportive parents
Teacher Talk: your string teaching questions answered by our panel of experts
