All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 380
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Focus10 ways to avoid tension in your playing
Advice on how to be flexible and relaxed as a string player from 120 years of The Strad
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VideoReplicating a Benoit Joseph Boussu
In this video, violin maker and researcher Geerten Verberkmoes puts the finishing touches to a replica of a violin by Benoit Joseph Boussu, using construction methods most likely employed by the 18th-century French luthier.
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NewsNo first prize awarded at 2018 George Enescu International Violin Competition
Second prize goes to 18-year-old Italian violinist Vikram Sedona
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NewsThe Strad October 2018 issue is out now
Hilary Hahn recorded her first disc of Bach when she was a teenager. Now, two decades on, she returns to complete the set
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VideoKanneh-Mason Piano Trio - Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s 'Deep River'
The Kanneh-Mason Piano Trio, formed of siblings Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano), Braimah Kanneh-Mason (violin) and BBC Young Musician winning Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), perform Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s arrangement of the spiritual ‘Deep River’. Coleridge-Taylor, not to be confused with poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was a mixed-race English composer and conductor who achieved great ...
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ReviewDvořák Piano Quintets & Bagatelles: Busch Trio, Maria Milstein, Miguel da Silva
Spirit and charm of these works is captured with jewel-like precision
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BlogsNatalie Clein on Bloch's solo cello suites – and connecting with her Jewish roots
Ahead of her Wigmore Hall recital on Sunday, the British cellist recalls her first contact with Ernest Bloch’s music and its deeper significance to her
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NewsLondon Symphony Orchestra sub-leader Lennox Mackenzie retires after 38 years
The violinist also served as the orchestra’s chairman for 16 years and was a founding member of the Arditti Quartet
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FocusHilary Hahn on recording a second instalment of solo Bach – 20 years after the first
The violinist recorded her first disc of Bach when she was a teenager. Now, two decades on, she returns to complete the set. Pauline Harding talks to her about constancy and change, and new meanings given to music through experience and memory
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NewsUK Musicians' Union calls for special touring visa for musicians post-Brexit
The organisation is lobbying for a ‘multi-entry, admin-light’ visa category which would cover all EU member states
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DebateOrchestral manoeuvres in the dark: classical music organisations prepare for Brexit
With the UK and EU no closer to finalising a Brexit deal, British orchestras are facing an uncertain future in Europe – and continental players have a right to be concerned, writes Peter Somerford
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VideoSonnet Mélancolique by Alexis de Castillon: double bass transcription
Double bassist Alexander Verster performs the ‘Sonnet Mélancolique’ from Alexis de Castillon’s song cycle Six poèsies d’Armand Silvestre, op.8. Verster’s transcription for double bass in standard orchestral tuning is available to download here and the piano score (public domain) here. The video was edited by John Reddihough, who is also ...
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NewsInaugural Szymanowski Competition announces winners
Polish violinist Sławomira Wilga won first place in the violin category, with the Eliot Quartet taking quartet prize
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ReviewDaniel Lozakovich: Bach
Swedish prodigy Daniel Lozakovich draws mellifluous sonorities from his 1713 ‘Baron Rothschild’ Stradivari in this debut disc of Bach
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NewsMaria Dueñas has won the Spivakov Competition
She receives a 1912 Riccardo Antoniazzi fine violin
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VideoInterpretation Class with Benjamin Zander
In this video, violinist Yasmin Myers takes a masterclass with Benjamin Zander, musical director of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, on Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto.
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NewsNew type of wood material might pose fresh possibilities for string players
The material could be a competitor to steel or titanium alloys
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FocusHow do you copy a Kittel?
Nikolai Kittel remains one of the most enigmatic bow makers, so when the assembled talents at this year’s Oberlin workshop set about making copies, they uncovered a host of interesting points, as Robert Ray explains
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VideoVSA Oberlin Acoustics Workshop 2015
Each year for one week, the international violin making community gathers at Oberlin to discuss the latest findings in acoustics under the guidance of researchers and renowned makers. Tying in with the new Making Matters article in our October issue, on the Oberlin Bow Making Workshop and its project ...
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FocusDo string players who refuse to embrace popular music face extinction?
String players must embrace the vernacular of today’s popular music or risk being consigned to a bygone era, writes electric violinist Tracy Silverman
