Book reviews – Page 95
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ReviewConcert review: Pupils of the Yehudi Menuhin School
Charlotte Gardner reports from the annual Wigmore Hall concert, which took place on 30 June 2019
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ReviewFestival review: Hambacher MusikFest
Carlos María Solare reports from the German music festival (19–23 June), which proved to be a hotbed of chamber music talent
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ReviewBook review: Preziosi Strumenti, Illustri Personaggi: Liuteria e Musica tra Seicento e Novecento in Europa
Philip Kass reviews the catalogue of an instrument exhibition held near Turin in 2018
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ReviewBook review: Füssen Lute and Violin Making; A European Legacy
John Dilworth reviews a history of lutherie in the southern German town
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ReviewPhoebe Carrai, Beiliang Zhu: Out of Italy
Finding flashes of greatness in Italian Baroque cello repertoire
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ReviewPeter Mallinson, Matthias Wiesner: A Tale of Two Violas
More Tertis transcriptions in a delightful double-viola celebration
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ReviewL’Archicembalo: Vivaldi
There’s inventive and compelling playing in this bumper issue of Vivaldi
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ReviewJasper Quartet: Kernis, Debussy
An aptly flowing string quartet from a contemporary American composer
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ReviewUlf Wallin: Brahms: The Five Sonatas for Violin and Piano vol.1
Proving that you can still count all Brahms’s violin sonatas on one hand
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ReviewPrimrose Piano Quartet: Brahms
Not an ounce of spare fat on Brahms in transformative period performances
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ReviewHarmonie Universelle: Biber
The joyful and spiritual realm of Biber, both religious and secular
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ReviewEybler Quartet: Beethoven
Perfectly capturing the astringency of Beethoven’s first-period quartets
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ReviewTrio con Brio Copenhagen: Beethoven
The Strad Issue: September 2019 Description: Beethoven the Romantic strains at the leash in these spacious performances Musicians: Trio con Brio Copenhagen Works: BEETHOVEN Piano Trios: in C minor op.1 no.3, in B flat major op.97 ‘Archduke’ Catalogue Number: Orchid Classics ORC 100101 Recorded as if ...
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ReviewTrio Zimmermann: Goldberg Variations
Three Stradivaris and a new arrangement of this dazzling music
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ReviewRosanne Philippens: Biber, Bach, Enescu, Ysaÿe
A bold, daring, semi-improvised programme that is intensely powerful
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ReviewAugustin Hadelich: Brahms, Ligeti
Two hugely contrasting concertos hold no terrors for a superb player
