All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 350
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NewsSheku Kanneh-Mason's debut album enters UK Top 20
BBC Young Musician of the Year winning cellist tops the UK classical album chart and enters the main chart at no.18
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NewsSAS now charging $60 cello booking fee on top of extra seat price, complains cellist
Scandinavian Airlines changes rules to impose telephone booking charge, despite not offering an online booking option for cellos
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FocusMasterclass: Christian Tetzlaff on Beethoven’s Violin Concerto – first movement
How to bring out the mystery and joy of one of classical music’s longest opening movements
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NewsCellist Caroline Brown, founder of the Hanover Band, dies aged 64
Period instrument pioneer had been battling rare cancer since 2012
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NewsQ&A with Anastasia Kobekina, winner of the Prix Thierry Scherz
The 23-year-old Russian cellist has just won the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad’s invitation-only competition, the prize of which includes a recording with orchestra. She talks to Charlotte Gardner
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VideoKerson Leong: Kreisler, Recitativo and Scherzo, op.6
Filmed on 4 July 2017 at the Flâneries Musicales de Reims festival, this video features Kerson Leong performing Fritz Kreisler’s Recitativo and Scherzo, op.6. Leong, from Canada, won the junior category of the 2010 Menuhin Competition, and now performs internationally both as soloist and chamber musician. He plays a 1741 ...
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FocusFrom the archive: an 1823 violin by Nicolas Lupot
These photos and below text were featured in the January 1993 issue of The Strad, along with a biography of Lupot and his part in instigating a French school of violin making
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FocusVenezuelan violinist Rubén Rengel wins $50,000 Sphinx Competition
The Detroit-based competition, which includes senior and junior divisions, is open to Black and Latino US string players
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NewsThree finalists announced at Singapore Violin Competition
The grand final will take place on 8 February with each finalist performing a concerto with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra
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NewsVictory for cellists as SAS blames misunderstanding for booking surcharge
Scandinavian Airlines had begun to impose $60 telephone booking charge on top of extra seat price, despite not offering an online booking option for cellos
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ReviewDanish Quartet: Last Leaf
Atmospheric arrangements of Nordic fiddle dances for string quartet
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FocusTechnique: Two-octave scales and arpeggios
An essential way to improve tone and intonation by Michael Frischenschlager, professor emeritus of violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
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FocusTechnique: Developing a 'cello vocabulary' for more effective practice with Amit Peled
A system of emoticons and words you can use to help you remember important technical ideas, by Amit Peled, cello faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University
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VideoJohn Williams conducts Itzhak Perlman in the theme from Schindler's List
Itzhak Perlman introduces this concert clip of John Williams conducting Theme from Schindler’s List
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NewsSergei Dogadin wins Singapore International Violin Competition
The 29-year-old Russian violinist wins $50,000 top prize, performance opportunities and the loan of a fine instrument
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VideoThe Quartetto di Cremona performs Mozart's 'Dissonance' Quartet (first movement)
Filmed live at the Sala Verdi in Milan, this video features the Quartetto di Cremona performing the first movement of Mozart’s String Quartet no.19 in C major, K465, known as the ‘Dissonance’ Quartet due to its experimental slow introduction.
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FocusTrade Secrets: Christian Bayon’s method for making a bass-bar
The French luthier shares his design for a new type of bass bar which is both a strong support and allows the top plate to vibrate more freely
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VideoDanish String Quartet: Last Leaf
The Danish String Quartet performs a track from their recent album of folk song arrangements, Last Leaf, reviewed in The Strad as having a ’magical atmosphere’. The musicians are: Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen: violin, harmonium; Frederik Øland: violin; Asbjørn Nørgaard: viola; Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin: violoncello
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NewsLutosławski Cello Competition heads into finals
Now in its eleventh edition, the young cellists’ showcase in Poland will announce its winner this evening
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ReviewChloë Hanslip: Beethoven Violin Sonatas
Warm and spirited live performances from this British duo
