All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 418
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FeatureLeon Bosch on playing Bach on the bass
A firm believer in exploring the instrument’s own repertoire, the double bassist is wary of too many awkward and unsatisfying arrangements
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VideoShunske Sato on the reconstructed Bach D minor Violin Concerto
Violinist Shunske Sato discusses BWV 1052R violin concerto which he performed with the Netherlands Bach Society for the All of Bach YouTube series. The concerto is thought to have been originally written for violin but survives in Bach’s manuscripts only as a harpshichord concerto. For more information about the Netherlands ...
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FeatureThe Strad guide to the best handmade electric violins
For maximum thrills, it’s hard to beat an electric violin at full throttle. There are many factory models, but here Christian Garrick test-drives some of the most innovative handmade instruments available today
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VideoJanine Jansen: Do you ever dream of music?
In this series of video from the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Janine Jansen, who is artist in residence for 2019, answers questions on her life in music
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NewsObituary: violinist Elliott Golub, owner of the ‘Spagnoletti’ ‘Del Gesù’
Concertmaster of Chicago’s Music of the Baroque for over 30 years, Golub had recently lent his Guarneri to the Museo del Violino in Cremona. He was 85
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NewsOberlin’s Cooper Competition reaches concerto round
Ten violinists aged 14 to 18 compete for the Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition’s $20,000 top prize
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NewsSix remain as Cooper Violin Competition enters final rounds
The violinists, aged 14 to 18, are competing for a first prize of $20,000 in Cleveland, Ohio
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VideoEarliest video of Sarah Chang
Grainy home video footage of what appears to be a very young Sarah Chang playing the Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso. The uploader suggests that it was taken in the mid 1980s, when she would have been 5 or 6. If you have any more specific information, please do let us ...
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the archive: a violin by Jacob Stainer, 1669
This illustration of a 1669 Jacob Stainer violin was published in The Strad, August 1934. The following text is extracted from an article accompanying the photographs: Jacobus Stainer’s instruments were always German in style, although the master was immeasurably in advance of his countrymen. That he was acquainted with the ...
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BlogsIstván Várdai on winning competitions and beyond
Having picked up prizes early in his career, and more recently served as a jury member, the cellist offers some advice for those preparing to join the competition circuit
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VideoStephan Koncz & Ödön Rácz: Barrière Duo
Cellist Stephan Koncz and bassist Ödön Rácz play the Allegro prestissimo movement from Jean-Baptiste Barrière’s Duo in G major for two cellos
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NewsARD competition invites 64 cellists to Munich for 2019 competition
The Bavarian Radio competition offers cash prizes and numerous performance opportunities
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NewsCooper Violin Competition in Cleveland names three finalists
Aged 14, 16 and 18, each will perform a concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra this Friday 26 July
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NewsLara St John makes sexual assault allegations against Jascha Brodsky
The Canadian violinist has alleged the events occured at Curtis Institute when she was 14
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Feature13 rules of desk partner etiquette
Classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh offered these tips for a harmonious musical relationship in our September 2004 issue
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NewsObituary: Period cello pioneer Anner Bylsma, 1934-2019
The Dutch cellist, whose 1979 recording of the Bach Suites on gut strings was hugely influential, has died at 85
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BlogsCellist describes multi-leg travel nightmare
Jacob Shaw has written an exasperated post about a recent trip from Denmark to Mexico in which the airlines seems to fail him in a different way each leg
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VideoBorodin Quartet cellist Valentin Berlinsky’s granddaughter discusses her book
Filmed on 17 July at the Royal Academy of Music, London, this discussion features Maria Matalaev presenting her book Valentin Berlinsky - A Quartet For Life. Berlinsky (1925-2008), was a founding member of the Borodin Quartet and its cellist and mainstay for more than six decades. A proud Russian but ...
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NewsWinner announced at Cooper Competition in Cleveland
American violinist Eric Charles Chen, 18, scoops $20,000 top prize
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VideoEric Charles Chen recital final performance at Cooper Competition
Eric Charles Chen was named winner of the Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition on Friday 26 July following a concerto final with the Cleveland Orchestra. This video captures his performance in the previous round, the recital final, in which he plays: Beethoven: Sonata No. 4 in A ...
