Features:
- CARLO BERGONZI 1735 ‘BARON KNOOP’ VIOLIN Andrea Zanrè examines an instrument by one of the greatest 18th-century Cremonese luthiers, while Rudolf Hopfner reveals the results of CT scanning
- BACH SOLO VIOLIN SONATAS In the first of two articles on the Sonatas and Partitas, Lewis Kaplan discusses what the autograph scores can tell us about the composer’s intentions
- VILLA-LOBOS AND THE CELLO The Brazilian composer wrote many works for the cello, although his heart lay in his country’s folk music tradition. Felipe Avellar de Aquino examines his oeuvre
- SESSION REPORT Toby Deller talks to violist Timothy Ridout about his latest album, comprising transcriptions of Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet suites
- VIOLIN MAKING SCHOOLS IN CHINA The country of almost 1.4 billion people has only a handful of institutions teaching lutherie. Sisi Ye speaks to the directors of three of the main schools
- MARIUS MAY The well-known British cellist died in 2020 aged 61. His brother Simon May looks back on his life, while friends and colleagues give their reminiscences
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