Featurs:
- Ébène Quartet – The four players tell Charlotte Gardner about the group’s 20th anniversary, their current Beethoven project, and the challenge of finding a new violist
- Vuillaume’s early years – Little has been written about the 19th-century French maker’s developmental phase. Jonathan Marolle rectifies matters with a close inspection of six early violins
- Jerry Horner – James Dickenson celebrates the life and legacy of the violist and pedagogue who died in February 2019, with contributions from former students and colleagues
- Michel Collichon – Just ten instruments have survived from the 17th-century viol maker’s career – but all testify to his fascinating, innovative style, as Shem Mackey explains
- Session Report – Violinist Johan Dalene and producer Jens U. Braun discuss recording the Tchaikovsky and Barber violin concertos, in conversation with Toby Deller
- Retiring from performance – Pauline Harding speaks to string players both young and old to find out how they deal with the idea of letting their career wind down – assuming they ever want it to
- LIFE LESSONS The memories and opinions of Swiss cellist Christian Poltéra
- OPINION String players can overcome their feelings of stage fright by practising in public
- POSTCARD FROM LVIV Report from the third Oleh Krysa International Violin Competition
Regulars:
- IN FOCUS One of the few Nicolas Lupot violins to have been modelled on a Guarneri ‘del Gesù’
- TRADE SECRETS New York luthier Guy Rabut’s system for fitting cello endpins
- MY SPACE Yves-Antoine Gachet’s workshop
- MAKING MATTERS Tuning fingerboards
- MASTERCLASS Cellist Moray Welsh gives tips on performing Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata
- TECHNIQUE Misha Galaganov on how to stay in shape with just 30 minutes of practice per day
- FROM THE ARCHIVE News of the European string music scene, from the February 1930 issue
- SENTIMENTAL WORK Violinist Jean-Luc Ponty on the genesis of his own piece ‘Renaissance’
