Features:
- VIKTORIA MULLOVA The violinist discusses her latest Schubert recording with Toby Deller, as well as her collaborative projects with friends and family, and her love of improvisation
- PAUL MAKANOWITZKY The long-time teaching assistant of Ivan Galamian was a talented violinist in his own right. David Hays talks to former students to explore his life and career
- VIOLIN MAKING IN SEOUL Luthier Hagit Gili Gluska finds out how, in just a few years, the Seocho area of Gangnam has become a mecca for instrument makers from around the world
- SESSION REPORT Robin Stowell talks to Richard Boothby of British early music group Fretwork about the ensemble’s recording of fantasias for viol consort by Thomas Lupo
- PIETRO CASTRUCCI Based in London, the 18th-century composer wrote a great deal of music, now almost completely forgotten. Gerald Elias explores his life and legacy
- AUGUST RAU The German bow maker was one of the last to uphold the 19th-century ideals of independent craftsmanship. Gennady Filimonov examines several of his bows
Regulars:
- IN FOCUS A 1911 cello by Camillo Mandelli
- TRADE SECRETS Michael Doran presents his technique for making ‘Hill-style’ saddles
- MY SPACE Double bass maker George Martin
- MAKING MATTERS The secrets of Stradivari’s moulds that are hidden in plain sight
- MASTERCLASS Cellist Amanda Forsyth discusses playing Bruch’s Kol nidrei
- TECHNIQUE British violist Martin Outram gives tips on developing bow control
- LIFE LESSONS Astrid Schween, cellist of the Juilliard Quartet, reminisces about her teachers
- OPINION How the fallout from the pandemic has affected practitioners of early music
- POSTCARD FROM DUBLIN A report from Spike, the Irish capital’s alternative cello festival
- FROM THE ARCHIVE From May 1932
- SENTIMENTAL WORK Renaud Capuçon on his love of Brahms’s Violin Sonata no.1 in G major
