What can the corners of Stradivari’s instruments tell us about the forms he used? Was Maud Powell the first virtuoso to favour a modern instrument? What are the best recordings of Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto? The Strad investigates all this and more in its June issue, also containing interviews with Antje Weithaas, Nils Mönkemeyer and Lionel Handy.
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What can the corners of Stradivari’s instruments tell us about the forms he used? Was Maud Powell the first virtuoso to favour a modern instrument? What are the best recordings of Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto? The Strad investigates all this and more in its June issue, also containing interviews with Antje Weithaas, Nils Mönkemeyer and Lionel Handy.
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