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Contents

VOL.131 ISSUE NO 1558 FEBRUARY 2020

FRENCH
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COVER STORY
Ébène Quartet

EDITOR’S LETTER 7 CONTRIBUTORS 8 SOUNDPOST 10

FEATURES
28 ÉBÈNE QUARTET
e four players tell Charlotte Gardner about the group’s 20th anniversary,
their current Beethoven project, and the challenge of nding a new violist
34 VUILLAUME’S EARLY YEARS
Little has been written about the 19th-century French maker’s developmental
phase. Jonathan Marolle recti es matters with a close inspection of six early violins
44 JERRY HORNER
James Dickenson celebrates the life and legacy of the violist and pedagogue who
died in February 2019, with contributions from former students and colleagues
50 MICHEL COLLICHON

Just ten instruments have survived from the 17th-century viol maker’s career
– but all testify to his fascinating, innovative style, as Shem Mackey explains

58 SESSION REPORT
50 Violinist Johan Dalene and producer Jens U. Braun discuss recording the
Tchaikovsky and Barber violin concertos, in conversation with Toby Deller

60 RETIRING FROM PERFORMANCE
Michel Collichon Pauline Harding speaks to string players both young and old to nd out how they
deal with the idea of letting their career wind down – assuming they ever want it to
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