All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 339
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FocusProtection and portability: five of our favourite violin cases reviewed
The number of instrument cases available can make finding your perfect partner a daunting process. Charlotte Smith takes five cases by leading manufacturers BAM, For-Tune, Gewa, Musafia and Negri on the road to test security, mobility and the range of features available
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VideoComparing a $62 factory violin to a $285,000 Testore
Classicaly trained violinist and prolific YouTuber Rob Landes visits Peter Prier & Sons in Salt Lake City, Utah, to compare a $62 factory violin bought from Amazon against a 1794 Vincenzo Panormo, an 1885 Giuseppe Scarampella and finally a 1700 Carlo Giuseppe Testore.
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NewsMenuhin Competition receives record number of applications
Event taking place in Geneva in April 2018 receives 317 applications across junior and senior categories
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VideoBridge position adjustment with Edgar Russ
In the first of a new series of YouTube videos, Cremona-based luthier Edgar Russ talks about the importance of proper bridge adjustment and how to check if yours is maintaining the correct angle
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FocusContact points: controlling your sound through the position of your bow on the string
New England Conservatory and Juilliard School cello faculty member Natasha Brofsky introduces a set of exercises for exploring the tone, colour and expressive potential of a well-controlled bow, plus three videos showing the techniques in action
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VideoEllinor D'Melon, aged 9, plays Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole
In this video from 2009, Ellinor D’Mellon plays the fourth and fifth movements of Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole with pianist Alina Artemyeva. D’Melon, now 16, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, beginning violin lessons at the age of two and a half. She then studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Natasha ...
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NewsCleveland Orchestra receives $15m gift in 100th season
Richard and Emily Smucker have pledged the amount, with $3m as challenge grants to encourage further fundraising efforts
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FocusAdvances in string manufacture: the latest developments
There are hundreds of strings available on the market already, and new releases seem never ending. But just why are these developments happening, how necessary are they, and how are musicians involved in that process? Pauline Harding asks string manufacturers and testers worldwide
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NewsViola da spalla pioneer Lambert Smit has died
Dutch violist’s research on Bach’s use of the five-string shoulder held instrument in the Cello Suites and Cantatas played crucial role in its revival
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ArticleMendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor op.64; Symphony no.5 ‘Reformation’ op.107; Concert Overture ‘The Hebrides’ op.26
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: November 2017Description: A familiar concerto sounds freshly minted and in tip-top conditionMusicians: Isabelle Faust (violin), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Pablo Heras-CasadoComposer: Mendelssohn Catalogue Number: HARMONIA MUNDI HMM 902325 How refreshing it is to witness a soloist adopting some of the recommendations ...
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ArticleMarc Coppey – Bloch: Schelomo, Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor; Silent Woods op.68
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: November 2017Description: Unusually fine versions of much-recorded cello worksMusicians: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Kirill KarabitsComposer: Bloch, Dvořák Catalogue Number: AUDITE 97.734 It’s a truism that fashion and taste exert quite an influence on performance styles in each decade. Here, Marc Coppey ...
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BlogsClare Howick on finding inspiration in the personalities of the ‘Maurin’ Stradivarius and 'DeLay' Guadagnini
Like many violinists I have had the occasional opportunity to play on some lovely violins. For example, for my recently released recital disc, British Music for Violin and Piano, I was fortunate to play on the ‘Dorothy DeLay’ Guadagnini (1778), and for my forthcoming world premiere recording ...
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BlogsTamsin Waley-Cohen: 7 tips for making a successful recording
Making a recording comes with its own special set of pressures, and moving from the stage to the studio isn’t the easiest transition for a musician to make. Here violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen sets out her advice earned through experience
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News‘A huge waste of time and money’ for violinist travelling with Stradivarius turned away by British Airways over supposed rule change
BA Heathrow check-in staff said that violins are no longer accepted as cabin luggage under any circumstances, claims Tamsin Waley-Cohen
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GalleryGallery: Violin Society of America 2017 convention
The Violin Society of America’s 45th annual convention took place in Arlington, Virginia, on 9-11 November. Photographs by luthier Christopher Jacoby, editor of the VSA members’ magazine The Scroll 1. John Montgomery showing off the 1699 ‘Castelbarco’ Stradivari cello in the Library of Congress, during the Lottery Preconvention ...
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FocusIt's the inside of the violin which governs its sound – how did we end up carving the outside arch first?
For almost two centuries luthiers have been copying instruments using the French method which, Torbjörn Zethelius argues, doesn’t give the interior carving of the violin the primacy it deserves – and crucially, that which it had in the hands of the original Italian makers
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Video20 cellos in 1 minute
Margarita Balanas visits Tom Woods Cellos in London and plays the first Bourrée from Bach’s Cello Suite no.3 on 20 instruments of various makers and eras, including J. B. Vuillaume, Thomas Kennedy, J&A Gagliano, Georges Chanot and Claude Miremont
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VideoHenning Kraggerud - Victimae Paschali
Henning Kraggerud and the Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra perform an arrangement of Kraggerud’s own Victimae Paschali recorded in Tromsø Cathedral
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NewsTexas cello pedagogue Phyllis Young has died at 92
Cellist was on the Butler School of Music faculty for over 50 years and director of the UT String Project for 35 years
