Features
Masterclass: Extending violin techniques towards rock and hip-hop
Monday, 22 February 2010
By Daniel Bernard Roumain Genre-crossing violinist, innovator, composer and bandleader
Trade Secrets: Making plaster casts using vacuum bagging
Monday, 22 February 2010
By Andrea Ortona Violin maker and restorer based in London
Soap Stars
Monday, 22 February 2010
Barber’s Violin Concerto was commissioned – and later rejected – by a soap tycoon who initially declared it unplayable. In the composer’s 100th annive...
It Takes Two
Monday, 22 February 2010
String players and pianists are uniting to end the perception of piano accompanists as lesser musicians. Elana Estrin delves into the emerging field o...
The rise and rise of Chinese Lutherie
Monday, 22 February 2010
Nanacy Pellegrini asks whether China’s first ever international violin making competition will confirm its reputation for lutherie
Great Violinists: Joseph Szigeti
Monday, 22 February 2010
Julian Haylock admires the intellectual intensity that set Szigeti’s honest approach apart from the flamboyance and fireworks of his peers
The Beethoven letters
Monday, 22 February 2010
Detlef Hahn and Andrew Manze reveal their differing views on the Beethoven Violin Concerto in an exchange of correspondence about the new Urtext editi...
‘I even tried to play a t differently to an n’
Monday, 22 February 2010
French violist Antoine Tamestit’s bold new project translates Schubert songs on to the viola. He reveals the inspiration for the new CD to Carlos Marí...
Think Big
Monday, 22 February 2010
The only remaining tenor viola made by the Tyrolean maker Jacob Stainer reveals the maker’s painstaking attention to detail and offers tantalising clu...
Big shops on borrowed time?
Monday, 22 February 2010
The end of Moennig’s in Philadelphia surprised and shocked the string world. But does it reveal a more general malaise in the violin market? Ariane To...
Celebrating Slava’s broad legacy
Monday, 22 February 2010
Peter Somerford heard a host of string stars at the third International Rostropovich Festival in Azerbaijan, but the event also continued the great ce...
Not just a load of ‘Ole Bull’
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
As makers around the world copy the 'Ole Bull' 'del Gesù' as part of this year’s festivities in Norway, Ariane Todes asks them what they can learn fro...
Masterclass: Schubert’s String Quartet in G major D887: cello part
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
By David Waterman, cellist of the Endellion Quartet
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