Contents:
- ANTONIO STRADIVARI ‘KING CARLOS IV’ VIOLIN 1709 – A masterpiece from the ‘golden period’, the instrument is in an excellent state of preservation. Florian Leonhard examines its history and present condition
- MARK O’CONNOR – The American fiddle player talks to Alexandra Petropoulos about his early successes, improvisation, and his own particular approach to string teaching
- SOUTH AFRICAN STRINGS FOUNDATION – Double bassist Leon Bosch reports from the organisation’s first live convention, which took place in the city of Gqeberha from 17 to 20 March this year
- FEMALE VIOLINISTS AND THE BRAHMS CONCERTO – While several male performers shunned the virtuosic masterpiece in its early years, many of its principal advocates were women, as Tatjana Goldberg explains
- SESSION REPORT – British violinist Madeleine Mitchell talks to Harry White about her latest recording, which brings together works by composers with a connection to her
- PURFLING EXPERIMENTS – Mike Dunham reports on the 2022 Oberlin Violin Makers Workshop, where a group of luthiers looked to find a practical method of making purfling strips
Regulars:
- IN FOCUS – A c.1840 violin by Georges Chanot I
- TRADE SECRETS – Making a fingerboard template
- MY SPACE – South African maker Svend Christensen
- MAKING MATTERS – How to create an f-hole template using design software and CNC
- MASTERCLASS – Thomas Demenga on the last two movements of Debussy’s Cello Sonata
- TECHNIQUE – Cellist Richard Tunnicliffe on achieving lightness in the left hand
- LIFE LESSONS – With cellist Johannes Moser
- OPINION – Rethinking the last two movements of Beethoven’s String Quartet op.135
- POSTCARD FROM ORLANDO – The American String Teachers Association’s 2023 conference
- POSTCARD FROM COPENHAGEN – The Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition
- FROM THE ARCHIVE – A reader meets Italian luthier Carlo Bisiach in a letter from July 1933
- SENTIMENTAL WORK – Edicson Ruiz describes playing Bach’s Cello Suites on the double bass
