All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 471
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VideoThe Strad Calendar 2021: ‘Arditi’ Antonio Stradivari violin
This year’s calendar contains twelve masterpieces by Stradivari, Guarneri ‘del Gesù’, Rogeri, Vuillaume and many more
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NewsBeijing Music Festival announces programme of live and online events
The programme includes operas, concerts, documentary films and commentary
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NewsBBC launches Experience Classical
This digital experience, launched with the help of Sheku Kanneh-Mason, aims to provide a new way to discover classical music
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Video3 ways we can damage our instruments without even knowing it
As part of her ‘Students Stuck at Home’ series of videos, American luthier Anna Huthmaker reveals three ways in which we can damage our instruments without even knowing about it. For more in the series, click here. Watch: The oddities of a luthier’s workshop
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VideoViolinist practises with rescue kitten in pouch
Note: Select ‘Full screen’ to watch this video properly. In this video London-based French violinist Esther Abrami practises with a rescue kitten in her pouch. On her Facebook page, Abrami says: ’This kitten was abandoned but thankfully rescued by the cat shelter Association Féli-Cité. As a host family I took ...
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VideoCremonese makers launch video showcase
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic and its effect on Italian lutherie, a group of violin makers in Cremona have put together a video showcasing their working methods. The aim is to demonstrate the vibrancy and industriousness of today’s luthiers, as Antonio Stradivari wanders the streets of modern-day Cremona, viewing ...
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NewsBBC launches new project to celebrate diverse ethnic classical composers across the centuries
The composers’ work will be broadcast in a special concert in autumn/winter 2021
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VideoMidori plays Paganini/Liszt
Our cover star for the October 2020 issue of The Strad plays Paganini/Liszt’s La Campanella for Violin and Piano, with pianist Robert McDonald. To read our interview with Midori click here.
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FocusMaking the most of one hour of practice
The Strad’s panel of experts answer your string teaching questions for the Teacher Talk series
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NewsI Musici cellist Francesco Strano has died
The musician, 80, was also known as a tutor at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
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News‘Performing the same piece over and over will be the death of classical music’ – violinist Johannes Pramsohler
Following the release of The Berlin Album, the latest in Ensemble Diderot’s ‘cities’ recording series, the period group’s founder and violinist Johannes Pramsohler speaks to Pwyll ap Siôn about why these works deserve greater recognition
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NewsYuri Bashmet hospitalised with Covid-19
The 67-year-old musician’s condition is not thought to be serious
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VideoThe Strad Calendar 2021: Francesco Rugeri cello c.1680
This poplar-backed cello is clearly very similar in form and modelling to Amati patterns
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FocusWhat does it feel like to play in a socially-distanced orchestra?
As live music begins to make a cautious comeback, Matthew Bain, a freelance violinist with the London Philharmonic and Philharmonia amongst other ensembles, shares his experience of returning to orchestral playing
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VideoBBC violists play Nimrod
In this video, the violas of the BBC orchestras play an arrangement of Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’ by James Manson. This recording is dedicated to former BBC Symphony Orchestra Principal Viola, Ruşen Güneş, who died in May aged 80. BBC SO viola Philip Hall writes: ‘Ruşen was a very special person and ...
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NewsNew England Conservatory introduces free live streams
The live streams will include orchestral and chamber music concerts and talks
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NewsJuilliard to hold virtual gala on Monday 5 October
The gala will feature hundreds of students and alumni performing from locations around the world
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NewsCellist Inbal Segev launches 20 for 2020 commissioning project
The project will see the cellist commission and record new chamber works from 20 of today’s composers
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VideoChristoph Koncz plays Mozart on the composer’s own violin
Christoph Koncz, principal violinist of the Vienna Philharmonic and conductor, was granted exclusive access to Mozart’s own violin to record Mozart’s five Violin Concertos on the composer’s own violin for the first time ever. Here, you can hear a preview of the album, which comes out on 9 October. Read: ...
