Contents:
- CHIAROSCURO QUARTET The members of the UK-based foursome talk to Pauline Harding about their current project to record Beethoven’s complete string quartets on gut strings
- ORCHESTRAL BLENDING Peter Somerford speaks to section leaders from some of the world’s top ensembles to discover the secrets of maintaining a balanced, distinctive orchestral sound#
- SGARABOTTO AND ORNATI The veteran lutherie tutors donated their workshops’ contents to the Cremona School of Violin Making. Matteo Giovanetti and Luca Baratto examine the treasures
- SESSION REPORT Violinists John Mills and cellist Bozidar Vukotic of the Tippett Quartet tell Harry White about the group’s latest recording of string quartets by Glazunov
- AN 18TH-CENTURY COMPOSITE CELLO Sally Gosling details the restoration of an instrument that turned out to combine parts of Pietro Guarneri of Venice, Domenico Busan and Paolo Antonio Testore
- MICHAEL RABIN One of the most gifted American violinists of all time would have turned 90 this year. Jonathan Woolf examines the career of the tragically short-lived virtuoso
Regulars:
- IN FOCUS Inkyu Hwang’s method for camouflaging a patch using a veneer
- TRADE SECRETS Hannah Lobe on refinements of the scroll in the final stages of carving
- MY SPACE Koichi Furukawa of Ozaka, Japan
- MAKING MATTERS Examining the case built to house the famed ‘Il Cremonese’ Stradivari
- MASTERCLASS Cellist Edgar Moreau and his violinist brother David on the first movement of Schubert’s Piano Trio no.2 in E flat major
- TECHNIQUE Double bassist Nina DeCesare gives hints and tips on double bass shifting
- LIFE LESSONS The memories and opinions of American cellist David Finckel
- OPINION Students should regard practising scales as more than just a chore
- POSTCARD FROM THE NETHERLANDS The 2026 String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam
- FROM THE ARCHIVE From May 1926
- SENTIMENTAL WORK Bonnie Hampton on her love for Beethoven’s ‘Triple’ Concerto
