Contents:
- JORDI SAVALL As he turns 85, the Catalan early music pioneer discusses his long and varied career, as well as the future of the genre, in conversation with Michael White
- FRENCH TRANSITIONAL PERIOD – PART ONE In the first of two articles, Florent Boyer examines how the instruments of 18th-century Paris began to show the influence of works by Antonio Stradivari
- BRETT DEAN The Australian violist and composer reflects on the relationship between playing and composition, as he talks to Jessica Duchen
- MATTHEW HARDIE Known in his lifetime as ‘the Scottish Stradivari’, the renowned luthier died 200 years ago this year. David Rattray marks the occasion with a look at his violas
- SESSION REPORT German cellist Alban Gerhardt tells Jessica Duchen about his latest album, which brings together the iconic cello concertos of Elgar and Dvořák
- BACH CELLO SUITES Markus Rathey investigates the evidence that the Baroque composer’s seminal works for cello were influenced by his brilliance as an organist
Regulars:
- IN FOCUS An unusual mute violin made in 1776 by Neapolitan luthier Nicolò Gagliano
- TRADE SECRETS Setting up a five-string violin
- MY SPACE Erli Gurra of Tirana, Albania
- MAKING MATTERS Examining the amount of air in the soundboxes of 23 Cremonese violins
- MASTERCLASS Esther Yoo on the first movement of Grieg’s Violin Sonata no.3
- TECHNIQUE Cellist Edith Salzmann gives hints and tips on 19th-century cello technique
- LIFE LESSONS With Scott Pingel, principal bassist of the San Francisco Symphony
- OPINION How theatre improvisation can offer inspiration for music teachers
- POSTCARD FROM CALIFORNIA Thomas May reports from the 2026 Ojai Music Festival
- FROM THE ARCHIVE From August 1896
- SENTIMENTAL WORK Maja Bogdanović on her love for Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto no.1
