Violinist Carolin Widmann features in a German-focused issue
CAROLIN WIDMANN: The German violinist talks to David Kettle about her return to the concert stage and her feelings about being labelled a ‘contemporary music specialist’
THE 12 CELLISTS: Made up of the cello section of the Berlin Philharmonic, the ensemble marked its 50th birthday last year. Katinka Welz talks to some of its current members
BARON JOHANN KNOOP: During his lifetime, the German collector owned more than 40 fine instruments, including two Stradivari quartets. Clifford Hall discovers the man behind the name
LUTHERIE TIME AND LABOUR: Should the price of a new instrument be determined by how long it takes to make? Benjamin Schilbach gives tips on how to calculate an hourly rate
SESSION REPORT: Violinists Jeremy Isaac and John Mills of the Tippett Quartet tell Jessica Duchen about the group’s latest project, a recording of all the Korngold string quartets
HUMIDITY: Musicians and luthiers give their thoughts on how best to combat the problems associated with different climates, in conversation with Jacqueline Vanasse
In our regular sections:
IN FOCUS: An 1824 violin by Nicolas Lupot
TRADE SECRETS: A method for making and fitting purfling using fish glue
MY SPACE: Julia Jostes and Simon Eberl give a tour of their workshop in Lübeck, Germany
MAKING MATTERS: Milo Stamm gives tips on joining the wood for the top and back plates
MASTERCLASS: Amit Peled on the second movement of Beethoven’s Cello Sonata no.4
TECHNIQUE: US bassist Rob Nairn discusses performing with gut strings on the double bass
LIFE LESSONS: With violinist Pierre Amoyal
OPINION: Rodrigo Moro Martin argues for flexibility in the double bass bow hold
POSTCARD FROM BOCA RATON: The Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition
FROM THE ARCHIVE: A portrait of cellist Guilhermina Suggia, from April 1923
SENTIMENTAL WORK: Cellist Tanja Tetzlaff chooses Lutosławski’s 1970 Cello Concerto
Plus, in your April digital edition:
- Read our cover interview with Carolin Widmann while listening to clips from her most recent CD, L’Aurore
- Contemporary newspaper cuttings reveal more about the chequered history of instrument collector Baron Johann Knoop
- Carlos Maria Solare reports from the Heidelberg String Quartet Festival, with extra photos of the Armida, Chaos, Consone, Leonkoro and Marmen quartets
- Session Report: audio clips from the Tippett Quartet’s epic recording of the three string quartets by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- My Space: extra photos from the workshop of Julia Jostes and Simon Eberl in Lübeck, Germany
- More from the Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition, including photos of the judges and Oliveira himself
- Books: extra images from violinist Helen O’Hara’s autobiography What She’s Like
- And clips from the trio of recordings deemed worthy of the title ‘The Strad Recommends’
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