April 2010

Letter from Cape Town: Music exchange with township talents

Friday, 26 March 2010

Young Austrian string players travelled to South Africa recently to perform with young musicians from Cape Town. Etienne Abelin, musical director of t...

At home with Beethoven

Friday, 26 March 2010

The Artemis Quartet is a quarter of the way into a complete survey of Beethoven’s string quartets. Carlos María Solare spoke to the group about gettin...

Great Violinists: Leonid Kogan

Friday, 26 March 2010

Julian Haylock examines a performer whose stern stage image reflected the unwavering focus and penetrating intensity of his playing

The family way

Friday, 26 March 2010

The Young Concert Artists Trust nurtures exceptional, UK trained musicians embarking on a performance career. In the organisation’s 25th anniversary y...

Instruments of Murder

Friday, 26 March 2010

As more and more thriller writers seize on the power of rare violins to fire the imagination, Brian Wise investigates the fictional world of legendary...

The Slava effect

Friday, 26 March 2010

How did Prokofiev’s hard-to-play Cello Concerto no.1 turn into the sparkling, cellistic Symphony–Concerto? The composer’s close collaboration with Mst...

Stradivari's varnish: a chemical analysis

Friday, 26 March 2010

Jean-Philippe Echard and Balthazar Soulier reveal the results of their seven-year research into Stradivari’s varnish, using five of the master’s instr...

Trade Secrets: An alternative method for setting a neck

Friday, 26 March 2010

By Howard Needham, violin maker based in Annapolis, Maryland, US

Masterclass: Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote, solo viola part

Friday, 26 March 2010

By Roger Benedict, principal viola of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra

In the May 2010 issue

Friday, 26 March 2010

An issue of special features celebrating 120 years of the voice of the string music world

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