US violinist Anne Akiko Meyers speaks to Rita Fernandes about working with composers and commissioning new works in our December cover feature
ANNE AKIKO MEYERS: The Californian violinist speaks to Rita Fernandes about her tireless enthusiasm for working with composers and commissioning new works
TELEMANN’S VIOL FANTAISIES ON THE VIOLA: A collection of the composer’s pieces for bass viol was recently discovered in a German collection. Misha Galaganov explains the process of transcribing them
FILIPPO DE FILIPPI: Stefano Pio explores the circuitous route that took a 19th-century nobleman from the court of Pope Pius IX to the life of a violin maker and composer
SESSION REPORT: Japanese–Australian violist Hiyoli Togawa tells Carlos María Solare how her new album Children! combines Bach with works by modern composers
INHERITING OTHERS’ PUPILS: It can be difficult for string teachers to deal with students who started with someone else. Alun Thomas describes some of the strategies that can help
LUIGI MOZZANI: An accomplished luthier himself, the Italian musician and entrepreneur had an eventful career and set up a prestigious workshop, as Lorenzo Frignani explains
In our regular sections:
IN FOCUS: A 1909 violin by James Briggs
TRADE SECRETS: Rudolf Pilsel’s method for preparing a two-piece violin top plate
MY SPACE: Gianmaria Stelzer’s Zurich workshop
MAKING MATTERS: Geerten Verboekmoes on making a violin from sustainable local materials
MASTERCLASS: Hannah Roberts on the first movement of the Dvořák Cello Concerto
TECHNIQUE: Double bassist Yung-Chiao Wei on finding effortless ways to play
LIFE LESSONS: The memories and opinions of US violinist Philippe Quint
OPINION: Why it’s so important for string players to learn to improvise
POSTCARD FROM SWITZERLAND: Report from the 30th anniversary of the Verbier Festival
FROM THE ARCHIVE: From December 1893
SENTIMENTAL WORK: Violinist Ilya Gringolts on the Dvořák Romance in F minor
Plus, in your December 2023 digital edition:
- View extra photos of our cover star Anne Akiko Meyers, while listening to clips from her latest recording of Arturo Márquez’s Fandango
- Clips from Hiyoli Togawa’s new album Children!, including Japanese lullabies and Gardella’s Wiegenlied
- Extra photos of ‘Echoes from the Ages’, the exhibition of luthier Hans Jóhannsson’s work in Reykjavík, Iceland
- Making Matters: bonus images of the violin made entirely from local materials by Dutch luthier Geerten Verboekmoes
- My Space: more photos from the workshop of Gianmaria Stelzer, situated in the heart of a Swiss brewery
- Postcard from Verbier: more from this year’s eponymous festival, featuring Mischa Maisky, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Janine Jansen, Amihai Grosz, Joshua Bell and Daniel Hope
- And audio clips from ‘The Strad Recommends’ recordings
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