All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 421
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FeatureHow to shift smoothly and cleanly by cellist Jeffrey Solow
When it comes to shifting, the American cellist and Boyer College professor gets his inspiration from the physics of ball games in this 2007 article
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NewsPrizes awarded at inaugural Vietnam International Violin Competition
The Grand Prix of $8000 USD is awarded by two players
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Premium ❘ Feature6 ways to avoid an angry soloist
Growing numbers of musicians are speaking out against bad audience behaviour, finds Charlotte Smith
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FeaturePlaying fit for a queen: Postcard from Brussels
This year’s Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium was devoted to the violin, and showcased a set of distinct and accomplished performances by the twelve finalists, as Tim Homfray reports
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NewsCrowdfunding helps to save Stradivari’s wood
The ‘Save the wood of Stradivari’ campaign has raised 230 thousand euros, which has been used to recover 3,000 resonant spruces
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VideoDaniel Hope: a portrait of the violinist
This portrait of Daniel Hope from 2017 explores the violinist’s career, the history of his family (who came to London from Berlin via South Africa), and asks what drives him as a musician.
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ReviewPaolo Pandolfo: Regina Bastarda
An attractive programme on instruments that are entirely legitimate
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NewsJohn-Henry Crawford wins 2019 Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition
The American cellist receives US $10,000
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VideoSheku Kanneh-Mason plays Mendelssohn Sonata for Cello and Piano
This was part of the Verbier Festival 2019 concert in which the cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and pianist George Li performed works by Beethoven, Debussy, Mendelssohn, and Lutosławski. To watch the full concert click here.
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News24-year-old Marina Grauman appointed Concertmaster of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
She takes up her role with the commencement of the 2019-2020 season
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NewsChina Eastern Airlines place cello in closet despite seat booking
Jian Wang complained online after China Eastern Airlines refused his cello a seat
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NewsObituary: luthier Paul Bartel
The violinist and luthier has passed away aged 67, following a lengthy battle with cancer
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VideoNicola Benedetti at NYO Prom
To end her Prom with the National Youth Orchestra (for whom she was recently made ambassador), Nicola Benedetti performs the second movement of Wynton Marsalis’s Fiddle Dance Suite: a ballade called As the Wind Goes. Read: Nicola-Benedetti-to-become-NYO-ambassador
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FeatureRemembering the great violinist David Oistrakh
Julian Haylock examines the technical poise, interpretative focus and musical humility that made the player a violinistic ideal
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: a Lorenzo Storioni violin, 1785
This illustration of a Lorenzo Storioni violin was published in The Strad, August 1912. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: The Storioni illustrated is in a fine state of preservation, and well covered with varnish. Nearly all of this maker's instruments encountered today possess tonal ...
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Premium ❘ FeatureThe Russian violin school is largely misunderstood
Igor Bezrodnyi, violinist, teacher and conductor, interviewed for The Strad shortly before his death in 1998
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NewsThe Strad September 2019 issue is out now
The award-winning Belcea Quartet reflect on 25 years as a group and their work guiding and inspiring the next generation
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VideoRay Chen plays Waltzing Matilda live at Hollywood Bowl
Ray Chen performs his own variations on Watzing Matilda, which as he says is ‘actually quite a tragic song’. ‘For some reason the tune remains jaunty and happy, which is why I decided I would make an arrangement that better describes the story through music,’ writes Chen: ‘“Waltzing Matilda” is ...
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VideoKanneh-Mason Trio performs Deep River
Performed by the Kanneh-Mason Trio, this is an arrangement of the traditional spiritual Deep River. It is based on the 1904 piano arrangement by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. The trio comprises the Kanneh-Mason siblings Sheku (cello), Isata (piano) and Braimah (violin), and this recording is being released by Decca as their first ...
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the Archive: a Maggini violin
This illustration of a violin by Giovanni Paolo Maggini was published in The Strad, September 1912. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs: The principal measurements of this violin, as supplied by the owner, are: Length of body, 37 cm; width of upper bouts, 17.1 cm; ...
