Features:
- STEVEN ISSERLIS The UK-based cellist talks to Charlotte Smith about his myriad lockdown projects, ranging from a disc of British cello music to a book on the Bach Suites
- BACH SECOND CELLO SUITE – PRELUDE How should the five bars at the end of the movement be played by cellists? Mats Lidström examines the different sources and editions to find an answer
- 1773 ‘COZIO’ GUADAGNINI VIOLA Alberto Giordano examines an instrument from the start of the maker’s Turin period, while Barthelemy Garnier looks at the interior of the instrument
- ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE Violinist Alun Thomas shares three case studies to explain how going down different ‘pathways’ of the alternative therapy can help all kinds of string players
- SESSION REPORT Alexander Gilman, artistic director of the LGT Young Soloists, tells Toby Deller about its new recording of Philip Glass’s Symphony no.14 ‘Liechtenstein’
- COPYING THE ‘TITIAN’ If Stradivari had used different wood for his 1715 masterpiece, what difference would it make to its sound? Jesús Alejandro Torres reports on an innovative study
- COVID-19 AND YOUNG MUSICIANS Charlotte Gardner speaks to the heads of various young artist schemes and record labels to find out how they’ve adapted to the needs of players in the past 18 months
Regulars:
- IN FOCUS A c.1815 Thomas Dodd double bass
- TRADE SECRETS Sebastian Ribes and Marianne Jost present their method for making purfling
- MY SPACE German luthier Maria Sandner
- MAKING MATTERS The second part of an investigation into the use of UV light
- MASTERCLASS Francesca Dego on the final movement of Mozart’s Violin Concerto no.4
- TECHNIQUE Hsin-Yun Huang gives tips on playing the viola with small hands
- LIFE LESSONS The memories and opinions of New Zealand violinist Wilma Smith
- OPINION Teaching a student with Down’s syndrome can give a new perspective
- POSTCARD FROM MONDSEE Report from the Hindemith International Viola Competition
- FROM THE ARCHIVE An 1892 list of ‘violin don’ts’
- SENTIMENTAL WORK Guy Johnston gives his thoughts on Walton’s Cello Concerto
