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The W. E. Hill & Sons Archive Tells the Story of Richard Bennett’s Fabulous Violin Collection

2 weeks ago | stringsmagazine.com | Bill Evans

By Sam McLaren Blade | From the March/April 2025 issue of StringsPhotos courtesy of W. E. Hill & SonsAn archive is simply a series of spreadsheets containing raw data: names, addresses, dates, places, prices, descriptions, and instruments—all rather uninteresting in isolation. However, when this database is truly understood, we can use it to follow the life of a specific person or instrument, and it can help to uncover hidden secrets and previously unknown stories. W. E.
Going Big at Dubai’s Classic Violin Olympus | Strings Magazine

1 month ago | stringsmagazine.com | Bill Evans

By Robert MarkowIn Dubai, size matters. Fueled by trade, tourism, aviation, real estate, and financial services, this futuristic panegyric to luxury consumerism has morphed from a small desert trading post facing the Arabian Sea into a glamorous urban destination sprouting a veritable forest of skyscrapers. It is the most populous of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates and may well be the fastest-growing city in the world.
Review | Czech Philharmonic Is Unmatched on ‘Dvořák: Legends and Rhapsodies’

1 month ago | stringsmagazine.com | Bill Evans

By Miranda Wilson | From the January/February 2025 issue of StringsEvery major orchestra seems to have its specialty, that one composer they play with an intimate knowledge that othnetopil cers can’t quite match. For the Czech Philharmonic, this composer is Dvořák, and their new recording of the ten Legends, Op. 59 (1880–81) and three Slavonic Rhapsodies, Op. 45 (1878) shows why.
How to Write About Classical Music Without (Necessarily) Becoming a Critic

1 month ago | stringsmagazine.com | Laurence Vittes

By Laurence Vittes | From the March/April 2025 issue of StringsThe landscape of music criticism has transformed dramatically since 1965, when I wrote my first reviews for the UCLA Daily Bruin—evolving from a discipline requiring primarily a keen ear and writing ability into a complex digital enterprise demanding diverse expertise.
On ‘Women,’ Esther Abrami Lends Her Voice to a Varied Cast of Underrepresented Composers

1 month ago | stringsmagazine.com | Megan Westberg

By Megan Westberg | From the May/June 2025 issue of StringsIt is an impassioned voice. A raised female voice. “Human life, for us, is sacred,” she says. Music swells beneath her. Bittersweet. Soaring. Rushing in and then retreating. She goes on. “For as we say, if any life is to be sacrificed, it shall be ours.” Orchestral crescendos punctuate her phrases, diminishing on a dime as her voice turns to soprano gravel from shouting.
Violinist Paul Huang Records Three Works Forged in Social Tumult on ‘Mirrors’ | Strings Magazine

2 months ago | stringsmagazine.com | Greg Cahill

By Greg Cahill | From the March/April 2025 issue of StringsReviews of violinist Paul Huang’s concert performances often rave about his “golden tone,” and his latest recording, Mirrors (Naïve), captures that quality in all its glorious sonority. You might attribute that to his ancient violin: the 1742 “ex-Wieniawski” Guarneri del Gesú (which takes its name from the famous 19th-century Polish virtuoso and composer Henryk Wieniawski), on extended loan from the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
Review: ‘The Cellist’s Guide to Scales and Arpeggios’ Covers Information Every Cellist Needs to Know

2 months ago | stringsmagazine.com | Miranda Wilson

By Miranda WilsonThe Cellist’s Guide to Scales and Arpeggios by master teachers Theodore Buchholz and Robert Jesselson solves a problem the cello world has had for a long time: the lack of a comprehensive and explanatory scale book for students of all levels. With stated goals such as “progressive order,” “a sequential blueprint,” and “a logical and systematic order,” this book covers information every cellist needs to know in a way that preempts common errors and misconceptions.
Cellist and Composer Peter Gregson Creates an Eponymous Album with a Presence | Strings Magazine

2 months ago | stringsmagazine.com | Megan Westberg

By Megan Westberg | From the March/April 2025 issue of StringsSometime around the year 2000, violinist David Harrington of the California-based Kronos Quartet received an email. Its author wasn’t a colleague or a publicist. Or even an adult. This email was, in fact, written by a teenage cellist living roughly 5,000 miles away. His name was Peter Gregson. “There’s nothing quite as precocious as 14 years of age,” says a now-grown-up Gregson over the phone from his London home.
The Late Composer and Multi-Instrumentalist John Hartford Left a Hidden Treasure Trove of 4,000-plus Fiddle Tunes

2 months ago | stringsmagazine.com | Greg Cahill

By Greg Cahill | From the March/April 2025 issue of StringsYou could almost say that John Hartford, largely known as a banjo player and country-pop composer, had a secret life as a fiddler.
Rules of Thumb (Position)—A Path Toward Mastering a Dreaded Cello Technique | Strings Magazine

2 months ago | stringsmagazine.com | Bill Evans

By Emily Wright | From the March/April 2025 issue of StringsThere’s an old Monty Python skit where a husband and wife are discussing what could be scraped together for dessert after a horrendous dinner. The wife begins listing the options: rat cake, rat sorbet, rat pudding, and strawberry tart. The husband is suspicious of the innocent-sounding option, and after a beat, his wife admits there is some rat in the tart. “How much?” he asks. “Three . . . rather a lot, really,” she says.