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My Space looks behind the scenes in the workshop of Angers-based luthier Marcus Klimke; and in  Making Matters Ulf Kloo explains how to adjust the back thickness on an instrument that’s already been set up. We also bring you news of the latest products and auctions, plus our regular analysis and opinion columns, and comprehensive reviews of concerts, CDs and books. Simply go to the  current issue to explore the full content listing.  View more photos from the Royal Danish Opera’s production of The Magic Flute, conducted by Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider More from the workshop of Angers-ba...

Steven Isserlis As part of Kirill Gerstein Invites, a series - hosted by Kronberg Academy - in which the pianist Kirill Gerstein invites leading figures from the musical world to speak about a topic of their choice, the cellist Steven Isserlis is to give a talk on Wednesday 20 January at 5pm GMT about Beethoven’s five sonatas for piano and cello. The talk, which is free to join, can be accessed by registering here. On registration, an email with instructions on joining is sent automatically. Students and guests have a chance to interact and pose questions via chat, audio or video. The ex...

Maxim Vengerov © Uwe Arens Violinist Maxim Vengerov is launching his first website - www.maximvengerov.com - dedicated to music education. The online platform will enable Vengerov to share his expertise with students around the world. The goal, he says, is ’to support students, teachers and young performers affected by Covid-19, to offer a new way to democratise access to music learning, and to give young people new possibilities and a real reason to believe that music is and always will be a great profession.’ In his promotional video for the website, Vengerov explains that he never b...

Narek Hakhnazaryan © Marco Borggreve Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme has been with me almost since I started learning the cello. I was around six or seven when my father came home with a videotape of Yo-Yo Ma playing the piece with the Leningrad Philharmonic under Yuri Temirkanov. It was the first time I’d ever watched a performance like that – it was a special gala concert for the 150th anniversary of Tchaikovsky’s birth, with Itzhak Perlman and Jessye Norman also in attendance – but I’d never seen anything like Ma’s playing before. Even though I was so young, I co...

2020-12-15T19:47:00+00:00 French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras discusses recording Beethoven’s ‘Triple’ Concerto during the pandemic, and the value of working with his musical ‘family’ JEAN-GUIHEN QUEYRAS: The French cellist talks to Pauline Harding about socially distanced concerts, contemporary composers and his recording of Beethoven’s ‘Triple’ Concerto CT SCANNING THE ’MESSIAH’: In 2016 Stradivari’s best-known violin underwent a non-invasive examination. Francesco Piasentini and Gregg Alf reveal the findings, particularly in the neck area GEORGE NEIKRUG: Students ...