Features:
- ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO AT 100: To mark a century since the work’s premiere, Raphael Wallfisch tells the story of its composition, and gives some insights into its performance
- ‘PAGANINI’ STRADIVARIS: Gavin Dixon travels to Tokyo to hear the Kuss Quartet perform a complete Beethoven cycle on four Strads, all previously owned by Nicolò Paganini
- GAETANO SGARABOTTO: A fine luthier in his own right, the Italian maker had a flair for copying the old masters, as Andrea Zanrè shows though a comparison of his scrolls
- MUSIQUE & VIN AU CLOS VOUGEOT: The Burgundy region of France hosts an annual festival dedicated, as its name suggests, to music and wine. Charlotte Gardner has a heady experience there
- FINGERBOARDS AND TAILPIECES: In the first of two articles on violin set-up, Joseph Curtin examines how these two essential parts of an instrument can affect its acoustics and resonance
- LIFE LESSONS: Violinist Richard Tognetti
- OPINION: New works should be played more than just once in their lifetimes
- POSTCARD FROM MOSCOW: Report from the violin section of the Tchaikovsky Competition
- POSTCARD FROM ST PETERSBURG: The cello section of the same competition
Regulars:
- IN FOCUS: A 1759 viola by Petter Hellstedt
- TRADE SECRETS: Janet Starck-Toon explains her restoration method of recreating purfling
- MY SPACE: The workshop of the Cremona-based Hungarian luthier Stefano Conia
- MAKING MATTERS: Making ten copies of a bow
- MASTERCLASS: Daniel Müller-Schott on the third movement of Franck’s Cello Sonata
- TECHNIQUE: Fingerboard mapping for harmony and improvisation
- SENTIMENTAL WORK: Boris Kuschnir’s memories of playing Mozart’s Violin Concerto no.4
