No. 283, November 2018

Special Focus: Vintage Instruments & Bows Back to Bach After beginning her recording history with three of the Bach Sonatas & Partitas at age 17, Hilary Hahn finally finishes the set By Inge Kjemtrup   The Remarkable David Hochstein On the 100th anniversary of Armistice, remembering a rising string star whose life was cut short on the battlefield By Sasha Margolis   Expanding the Repertoire Rachel Barton Pine’s ‘Music by Black Composers’ project aims to diversify the classical canon By Brian Wise   The Bottom Line For 60 years, Barre Phillips has been a bold explorer of the double bass. Now he’s released his final solo-bass album By Greg Cahill   WWI & the Trade How World War I changed everything—including the violin business By Andrew Dipper   Private Eye Observing tiny details on the works of Stradivari led Simone Sacconi to a great discovery By James N. McKean   Magic Behind Glass Stradivari’s ‘Spanish Court’ quartetin Madrid highlights the age-old clash between prese