Features:
- Doric Quartet: Celebrating two decades together, the UK-based foursome are discovering how Classical-era bows affect their sound and technique
- The secrets of Lutherie Competitions
- Meeting the masters of non-classical arrangements
- Henryk Szeryng at 100: landmark interview with his still living wife Waltraud
- The Arcadia Quartet on recording Bartók
- Violin making in Hungary after the fall of communism
Regulars:
- In Focus: An 1812 Giuseppe Marconcini violin
- Trade Secrets: US luthier Berl Mendenhall gives his personal method for purfling
- My Space: Palestinian luthier Shehada Shalalda
- Making Matters: Restoring an unusual violin that saw action in the First World War
- Life Lessons: The memories and opinions of Australian violist and composer Brett Dean
- Opinion: Do string players need to be able to ‘take ownership’ of their own recorded sound?
- Postcard from China: Report on a chamber music festival and competition in Shanghai
- Masterclass: Jonathan Brown, violist with the Casals Quartet, on Beethoven’s F major Quartet
- Technique: Chris West gives tips for double bassists on thumb position
- Sentimental Work: Anne-Sophie Mutter on what Penderecki’s Metamorphosen means to her