NEWS IN BRIEF

Editorís letter
Ever since the Danish Quartet burst on to

Contributors
ANDREW CARRUTHERS (Making Matters, page 70) attended the

SOUNDPOST
Letters, emails, online comments

Ledger lines
News and events from around the world this month

NEWS IN BRIEF
Violinist Augustin Hadelich joins KD Schmid bit.ly/3wE7uyr

OBITUARIES
CHARLES TREGER American violinist Charles Treger died on

Let there be light
PREMIERE of the MONTH

COMPETITIONS
Hina Khuong-Huu Brandon Leonard Njioma Chinyere Grevious KHUONG-HUU

NEW PRODUCTS
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Life lessons
The French cellist recalls the teachers who helped him on his unique journey, and the role of the player as interpreter

A rich musical inheritance
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Going with the flow
Since making their teenage debut in 2002, the musicians of the Danish Quartet have risen to the pinnacle of their profession but have never lost their expansive sense of wonder. Andrew Mellor talks to the foursome as they embark on their 20th-anniversary season

THE PROMISED LAND
At the end of the 19th century, the many waves of immigration to Argentina meant fertile ground for luthiers – particularly from Italy. Lionnel Genovart profiles some of the best-known names in the country’s violin making history

IRON LADY HEART OF GOLD
Cellist Natalia Shakhovskaya was one of the most influential pedagogues of recent times, teaching in both Russia and Spain. Oskar Falta examines her life and hears from some of her former pupils about her exacting teaching style

EMBRACING THE STRANGE
The Calidore Quartet has just released the first in its cycle of late Beethoven quartets. Peter Quantrill hears from two of the players about how this music involves intense preparation and a sense of ‘leaning into the weird’

Return of the KING
The baryton, an unusual bowed instrument with sympathetic strings, was championed as ‘the king of instruments’ during Haydn’s time, but later slid into obscurity. Now, however, it is making a comeback, as Gavin Dixon discovers

FOR GOOD MEASURE
In an age without a standardised measuring system, how is it that most Cremonese luthiers made instruments with such similar measurements and proportions? Simone Zopf argues that there was in fact a single unit of measurement from which most of the rest can be derived

IN FOCUS
SESTO ROCCHI

Repairing a bow thumb groove with epoxy and modelling clay
TRADE SECRETS

LERICE NAGER & SAVANNAH CHILDERS
MY SPACE

Inspired by nature
MAKING MATTERS Points of interest to violin and bow makers

MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN CONCERTO
MASTERCLASS

Octaves for cellists
Overcoming the fear and finding joy in octave practice

CONCERTS
Your monthly critical round-up of performances, recordings and publications

RECORDINGS
BACH TRANSCRIPTIONS BACH Concertos for violoncello piccolo, strings

BOOKS
Vaughan Williams Eric Saylor 360PP ISBN 9780190918569 OXFORD

From the ARCHIVE
FROM THE STRAD MARCH 1903 VOL.13 NO.155

PETER SHEPPARD SKÆRVED
Viotti’s short piece Ranz des Vaches – and the Italian virtuoso’s comments about the traditional Swiss herdsman’s song – had a seismic effect on the British violinist