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Happy birthday Florence Price! Mount Vernon Virtuosi CelloGang performs String Quartet in G major
Florence Price was born on this day in 1887. Amit Peled and his cello students commemorate the American composer with an arrangement of her 1929 quartet for cello ensemble
Happy birthday Florence Price! Mount Vernon Virtuosi CelloGang performs String Quartet in G major
Guitar textures on the violin: Tomás Cotik performs Albéniz’s ‘Asturias’
‘Prokofiev in a mosh pit’ – ORBI’s arrangement of Muse’s Unsustainable
‘This piece has everything a violinist can ask for’: Frank Peter Zimmermann on the Elgar Violin Concerto
Video premiere: Édith Piaf’s ‘Hymne à l’amour’ for eight cellos performed by the SCS Cello Ensemble
Cellist John-Henry Crawford performs Ravel’s ‘Pavane pour une infante défunte’
Michael Stephen Brown gives the viola the spotlight in a new work
The violin technique that shouldn’t exist: MinutePhysics explains Roman Kim’s harmonics technique
Jupiter Quartet performs Ginastera’s String Quartet no.1
Amy Beach’s Romance op.23 for double bass and piano
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Why do some 18th-century French violins have an ebony border round the edges?
Inspired by a c.1760 Chappuy instrument, violinist and cellist Michel Lorge considers the reasons for an unusual stylistic quirk of 18th-century violin making
Rudolf Neudörfer: guardian of a lineage
The German bow maker Rudolf Neudörfer celebrates his 90th birthday next month. Gennady Filimonov looks back at his life and career, exploring the Neudörfer dynasty of makers and examining his bows
My Space: Andreas Hampel and Susanne Riebesehl’s Hamburg workshop
The two luthiers present their German workshop
Trade Secrets: Final scroll refinement
Some notes on finishing off one of the trickiest parts of the making process
Making Matters: How to make a lighter viola
For some violists, playing on a lighter instrument is their holy grail. Laurent Zakowsky describes his methods to accomplish this, from thinning the back to changing the chinrest
In Focus: A 1695 viola by Christian Reichelt
Klaus Martius and Enrico Weller examine the Bohemian maker’s instrument
Reviews
Miriam Prandi: Bach
Subtlety of approach allows an Italian to stand out
Thomas Christian Ensemble: Bittner
A lawyer-turned-composer proves disappointingly conservative
Adorno Quartet: Castelnuovo-Tedesco
A guitar great proves his mettle in the quintet medium
Neave Trio: In Her Hands
Compelling performances of trios that deserve to be heard more
Ryo Terakado, Eun-Shik Kim: L’Apothéose de Corelli
A celebration of the Baroque trio sonata proves irresistible
Tibor Varga, André Navarra: Elgar
A dive into the Elgar archive is a mixed affair
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