Features:
- THE VENETIAN DOUBLE BASS The north Italian city-state produced some of the country’s finest instruments. Tom Martin, George Martin and Martin Lawrence examine them in detail
- BOTTESINI’S 200TH ANNIVERSARY Stephen Street celebrates the career of possibly the most influential double bassist in history, regarded in his time as ‘the Paganini of the double bass’
- ABEL SELAOCOE The Manchester-based cellist, composer and vocalist tells Tom Stewart how his genre-defying compositions are informed by his South African heritage
- WOOD TREATMENT Wenjie Cai and Hwan-Ching Tai reveal how the Cremonese maters treated the spruce used in their instruments, possibly based on alchemical principles
- HEIFETZ AS TEACHER Ayke Agus, the legendary violinist’s long-time accompanist and assistant, recalls his demanding style of teaching, in conversation with Enrico Alvares
Regulars
- IN FOCUS An 1807 violin by William Ferguson
- TRADE SECRETS Making an ‘invisible’ neck graft
- MY SPACE Double bass maker Jurgen Preyer
- MAKING MATTERS Carlo Chiesa investigates a notorious case of forgery from the 1920s
- MASTERCLASS Cellist Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt on playing short pieces with conviction
- LIFE LESSONS With cellist Amit Peled
- OPINION Finding the ‘game rules’ for playing
- POSTCARD FROM DUBAI The inaugural InClassica International Music Festival
- POSTCARD FROM MONDSEE Report from the annual Musiktage Mondsee concert series
- FROM THE ARCHIVE Violinist Tossy Spivakovsky’s tips on bowing, from 1951
- SENTIMENTAL WORK Arnold Steinhardt waxes lyrical on his love for Schubert’s Fantasy op.15
