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    Can string quartets save the world?
    Ariane Todes

    Can string quartets save the world?

    The recent Amsterdam String Quartet Biennale explored various aspects of the string quartet format, including the many life lessons it...
    Good content is forever
    Ariane Todes

    Good content is forever

    The internet offers musicians fantastic opportunities to build their reputations and legacies, as well as selling their music. They...
    Pictures, please!
    Ariane Todes

    Pictures, please!

    Wigmore Hall’s new photography policy offers a sensible way forward in today’s visual culture and more venues should follow suit There...
    The win–win of music education
    Ariane Todes

    The win–win of music education

    Why is music education and pedagogy not taken more seriously in the music world?
    Birth of a salesman
    Ariane Todes

    Birth of a salesman

    Car boot sales offer a brilliant lesson in salesmanship, and for this rookie also raised questions about buying and selling violins I’m...
    Review of Alexey Stadler Prom
    Ariane Todes

    Review of Alexey Stadler Prom

    Alexey Stadler‘s unexpected Proms debut last night was such stuff as careers are made on Performing at the Proms on a day’s notice is the...
    11 important musical insights
    Ariane Todes

    11 important musical insights

    I’ve interviewed many wonderful musicians over the year, have learnt much and had my thinking challenged many times. Here are just a few...
    Review of Beethoven for a Later Age
    Ariane Todes

    Review of Beethoven for a Later Age

    I have a theory that musicians write in exactly the same style that they play their instruments. I’m pleased to see it proven, somewhat...
    Bye Bye, Bellowhead
    Ariane Todes

    Bye Bye, Bellowhead

    The ground-breaking English folk band has broken up after 12 years, leaving this fangirl sad – but grateful I’m not a mosher. I don’t...
    20 great violinists
    Ariane Todes

    20 great violinists

    Who are my favourite violinists? A list of 20, which I made for Sinfini Music in 2014, still largely stands, but is sure to provoke a...
    When classical music marketing copy goes wrong
    Ariane Todes

    When classical music marketing copy goes wrong

    The current Southbank Centre slogan offers a lesson in how not to talk to about classical music There are a few obvious rules in...
    A musical tonic for the soul
    Ariane Todes

    A musical tonic for the soul

    A trip to the Musical Instrument Museum in Arizona offered profound and uplifting insights into the human condition, and interesting...
    Jacqueline du Pré – a terrible premonition
    Ariane Todes

    Jacqueline du Pré – a terrible premonition

    On what would have been the 71th birthday of Jacqueline du Pré, the words of János Starker sound a provocative warning Jacqueline du Pré...
    Careless talk costs lives
    Ariane Todes

    Careless talk costs lives

    As Nigel Kennedy goes on Radio 4's Mastertapes programme to be rude about Baroque performance practice, here's a blog I wrote in 2011 on...
    We’re all misfit weirdos now
    Ariane Todes

    We’re all misfit weirdos now

    The breadth and success of David Byrne’s recent curatorship of Southbank Centre’s Meltdown Festival demonstrate how the curiosity and...
    How to be present
    Ariane Todes

    How to be present

    Great stage actors have an aura of positive energy and openness that musicians can access, too. Acting coach Patsy Rodenburg tells Ariane...
    The curse of perfection
    Ariane Todes

    The curse of perfection

    Perfectionism in music is a modern scourge, and Peter Cropper, who died in May, demonstrated that it is a distracting priority for...
    Violin Utopia in Oberlin
    Ariane Todes

    Violin Utopia in Oberlin

    As some of the world's finest violin makers gather in the small university town of Oberlin, Ohio, to share their knowledge at the annual...
    The art of listening
    Ariane Todes

    The art of listening

    The best musicians have special powers of listening, as pianist András Schiff demonstrated in a masterclass last week How can you tell if...
    Barry Douglas on the pressures and benefits of competitions
    Ariane Todes

    Barry Douglas on the pressures and benefits of competitions

    As the Tchaikovsky Competition kicks off, we revisit a 2014 interview with the great Irish pianist Barry Douglas, who won the contest in...
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