Contents:
- JACQUELINE DU PRÉ TRIBUTE To mark what would have been the British cellist’s 80th birthday, we hear from friends, students and soloists who have taken inspiration from her work
- DU PRÉ FAMILY HISTORY The cellist’s sister Hilary Finzi looks back at Jacqueline’s formative influences, telling the inspirational stories of her grandmother Maud and mother Iris
- ‘PADEREWSKI, WENDLING’ VIOLIN – PART TWO Using CT scans, Balthazar Soulier examines the instrument that was mainly made by Montagnana but has a replacement top plate by Guarneri ‘del Gesù’
- LEOPOLD VAN DER PALS Andrew Mellor meets the Scandinavian composer’s great-great-nephew, cellist Tobias van der Pals, who has been preserving the musical legacy of his forebear
- SESSION REPORT British violinist Davina Clarke talks to Harry White about her latest recording, which explores Bach’s cantatas via the relationship between voice and instrument
- SOUTH AFRICAN TONEWOOD How might woods such as yellowwood and hardpear fare as tonewood for instruments? Martina Meincken reports on an experiment in South Africa
Regulars:
- IN FOCUS Alberto Giordano examines a 1937 violin by Genoese maker Giuseppe Castagnino
- TRADE SECRETS Double bass maker Matthew Tucker’s method for strengthening a bass back
- MY SPACE Turkish luthier Dinçay Gülenç
- MAKING MATTERS Dealing with a wolf note
- MASTERCLASS Paul Huang on the first movement of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
- TECHNIQUE Violinist Emily Sun hands on some hints and tips on projection
- LIFE LESSONS The memories and opinions of British violinist Daniel Hope
- OPINION Why live music will never be redundant, even with the rise of AI
- POSTCARD FROM LESBOS A report from the Moylvos International Music Festival
- FROM THE ARCHIVE From January 1895
- SENTIMENTAL WORK Cellist Anne Gastinel on Dutilleux’s 3 Strophes sur le nom de Sacher
