All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 403
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FocusEdgar Meyer on the Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite no.2
For the American double bassist and composer, what began as a pathway to technical expertise became a lifetime’s voyage of musical exploration. From the November 2015 issue
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FocusShould string teachers use fingerboard stickers for beginners?
Three string teachers debate the age-old question: should stickers be used on the fingerboard when teaching a beginner pupil?
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ReviewTwo recent Sonata and Partita sets
They approach Bach’s music from opposite sides of the historical divide, and the results make for a fascinating exercise in comparison
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FocusIn focus: c.1690 violin by Willem van der Sijde
Hubert De Launay takes a close look at a violin with full arching, unusually placed f-holes and a slender swan necked scroll
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VideoRay Chen in concert: Tambourin Chinois
From Dutch broadcaster Avrotros comes this video of Ray Chen performing Kreisler’s Tambourin Chinois with Amsterdam Sinfonietta, lead by Candida Thompson. Filmed on 17 February 2019 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
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NewsQuartetto di Cremona wins Franco Buitoni Award 2019
The Italian ensemble receives £25,000 and a specially commissioned glass sculpture
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VideoPatricia Kopatchinskaja on playing Pierrot Lunaire
Here Patricia Kopatchinskaja talks about playing Pierrot Lunaire, a project the violinist first conceived while she was unable to practise due to an arm injury. ‘All my life I’ve felt that I was Pierrot. Whenever I played the piece on my violin as a student which I I spoke the ...
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ReviewPatricia Kopatchinskaja: Hersch
A hyper-expressive account of music by this contemporary US composer
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ReviewWihan Quartet: Smetana, Dvořák and Janáček quartets
Authentic, plain speaking performances of the Czech masters
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VideoSheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason perform The Swan
In this video Sheku Kanneh-Mason and his sister Isata perform Saint-Saëns’s The Swan on the Norwegian-Swedish television talk show Skavlan.
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NewsLe Jonc Fleuri wins 10th International Telemann Competition
The Berlin-based quartet receives €7,500 and various concert engagements
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FocusElicia Silverstein's 5 tips for approaching gnarly contemporary works
The American violinist gives an insight into her strategy for getting her head, and fingers, around tough new repertoire
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NewsNicolò Gagliano violin stolen in Berlin
A violin by Nicolò Gagliano made in Naples in 1769 was stolen without its case in Berlin on 11 March
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Gallery30 cellos in a Chicago swimming pool
Katinka Kleijn and Lia Kohl perform Water on the Bridge, a devised theatre and music piece, in and around the Eckhart Park pool in Chicago. The performance represented the first full-scale iteration of a project the two cellists have been working on since 2016, incorporating ‘elements of theatre, movement, and ...
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FocusStringtelligence by Thomastik-Infeld: dealing with corrosion and perspiration
In the first of a new blog series for The Strad celebrating Thomastik-Infeld’s 100th anniversary, the Austrian string manufacturer’s director of engineering and technology, Franz Klanner, gives his recommendations for players who find their strings corroding too quickly
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FocusPekka Kuusisto on his Greenpeace collaboration
Elegy for the Forest, Pekka Kuusisto’s short film made in collaboration with Greenpeace, aims to build awareness of deforestation. He speaks to Peter Quantrill about combining art and activism
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ReviewSo Many Stars: Sonatinas for Violin and Piano by Berkeley, Françaix, Frances-Hoad, Sibelius, Crosse and Alwyn
Fenella Humphreys employs her customary imaginative flair and luminous palette of tone colours
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ArticlePaul Tortelier gives Dvorák Cello Concerto masterclass
‘I give you a little trick because I like you! My second finger is the leader – like Mrs Thatcher, it’s an Iron Finger’ French cellist Paul Tortelier gives a masterclass at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester for the BBC in 1987. Performing the concerto is 20-year-old ...
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FocusGreat Cellists: Paul Tortelier
Tully Potter celebrates the charismatic French artist whose playing shone with vitality, imagination and absolute commitment. From the February 2015 issue
