Features:
- BELCEA QUARTET: The members of the award-winning group recall their first 25 years together and discuss their work with young musicians, in conversation with Tom Stewart
- PERIOD PERFORMANCE: More and more young musicians are adopting techniques usually associated with historically informed playing. Charlotte Gardner reports on the trend
- ASYMMETRIC INSTRUMENTS: Peter Somerford discovers how innovative new designs can affect an instrument’s weight, ergonomics and acoustic potential, as well as provide visual interest
- KATÓ HAVAS: The pioneering violin pedagogue, whose New Approach had a seismic effect on string teaching in the 1960s, died last December. Friends and colleagues pay tribute
- SESSION REPORT: Christian Tetzlaff explains why he feels his second recording of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, 13 years after his first, is closer to what the composer wanted
- STRADIVARI GUITAR: A sixth example by the master has recently been identified. Emiliano Marinucci explains how it was found, and what it tells us about Antonio’s working methods
- RODNEY FRIEND: Charlotte Smith meets the British violinist to find out how he evolved the ideal left-hand position over the course of his long career – and how to do the same
- THE STRAD CALENDAR 2020: Thirty years since it began, the Chimei Museum’s collection of stringed instruments is unparalleled. Dai-Ting Chung and Andrew Guan present some highlights
- LIVE LESSONS: Violinist Renaud Capuçon
- OPINION: Teaching a cellist with special needs
- POSTCARD FROM JAPAN: Report from the Sendai International Violin Competition
- POSTCARD FROM COLORADO: Weathering the storm at the 2019 Bravo! Vail Music Festival
Regulars:
- IN FOCUS: A c.1930 violin by Ignacio Fleta
- TRADE SECRETS: Gabriel Reinhold explains his asymmetric method of neck shaping
- MY SPACE: Zurich luthier Julia van der Waerden
- MAKING MATTERS: How luthiers can keep their health and wellbeing in order
- MASTERCLASS: Esther Yoo on the third movement of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
- TECHNIQUE: A method of practising in 5ths
- FROM THE ARCHIVE: An early account of Kató Havas’s teaching methods, from October 1959
- SENTIMENTAL WORK: Salvatore Accardo on his relationship with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
