All Editorial articles
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FocusThe Strad Calendar 2025: 1871 Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin
An exact copy of Stradivari’s ‘Messiah’, it remained in a vault in Paris for more than 70 years
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ReviewFestival round-up: Edinburgh International Festival 2024
David Kettle reports from the Edinburgh International Festival, where string works were much in evidence
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ReviewConcert review: Bozzini Quartet
Bruce Hodges takes in the performance of Bekah Simms, Klaus Lang, James Tenney at Jürg Frey at Mary Flagler Cary Hall in New York’s Dimenna Center on 16 and 17 August 2024
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ReviewConcert review: Longleash
Bruce Hodges takes a trip down to Mary Flagler Cary Hall in New York’s Dimenna Center on 13 August 2024 for the performance of Jonah Haven, Katherine Balch and Igor Santos
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ReviewFestival round-up: BBC Proms 2024
Peter Quantrill takes in some of the string highlights at the Royal Albert Hall from this year’s BBC Proms
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FocusThe Strad Calendar 2025: c.1700 ‘Bell’ Giovanni Tononi violin
With a reddish-brown varnish over a golden ground, this violin shows the influence of Nicolò Amati
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ReviewIsolde Menges: works by Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Schubert, Vaughan Williams et al
A great British violinist is celebrated in fitting style
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ReviewRaphaela Gromes: Dvořák, Charnetskyi, Havrylets, Shevchenko, Silvestrov
A classic concerto is heard a fresh setting to moving effect
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ReviewJoshua Bell, Matt Haimovitz: Thomas de Hartmann Rediscovered
Two star musicians rehabilitate a neglected Ukrainian
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ReviewTchalik Quartet: Lyatoshinsky, Ravel
A refreshing dive into the quartet byways by these Paris-based siblings
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ReviewBoris Brovtsyn, Mohamed Hiber: Taneyev
Style aplenty in two characterful works by a Tchaikovsky pupil
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ReviewBook review: Thumb Position
Caroline Emery reviews double bass tutor Charlotte Mohrs’s introduction to playing in thumb position, published in English for the first time
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ReviewBook review: A Survey of Solo Works for the Violoncello
Janet Banks reviews cello professor Brian Hodges’ volume on cello repertoire from the 17th century to the present day
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ReviewBook review: The Instrumentalist
Anne Inglis reviews Harriet Constable’s fictionalised account of the life of violinist Anna Maria della Pietà, protégé of Vivaldi