Book Reviews – Page 3
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ReviewBook review: Vaughan Williams
Julian Haylock reviews Eric Saylor’s biography of the English composer, published to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth
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ReviewBook review: Top Secrets for Cellists: An Organized Method of String Playing
Janet Banks reviews a new edition of János Starker’s treatise on cello performance
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ReviewBook review: The Carlo Bergonzi Violins in Baron Johann Knoop’s Collection
The Carlo Bergonzi Violins in Baron Johann Knoop’s Collection Ed. Andrea Zanrè 112PP ISBN 9788890719455 Edizioni Scrollavezza & Zanrè/Jan Röhrmann €150 The third in this impressive series of violin analysis books is a triumph, filled with fascinating chapters and detailed high-resolution photographs and images from ...
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ReviewBook review: Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World
Andrew Braddock, editor of the American Suzuki Journal, reviews Eri Hotta’s biography of the founder of the Suzuki method
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ReviewBook review: How to Practice Music
Celia Cobb reviews Andrew Eales’ short volume on the best practice strategies
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ReviewBook review: Jazz Violin Etudes: Jazz Scales Every Violinist Should Know
Alex Laing reviews Harry Hunt Jr’s volume for violinists on how to practise jazz scales most effectively
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ReviewBook review: The Northern Silence: Journeys in Nordic Music and Culture
Robin Stowell reviews Andrew Mellor’s account and analysis of music in the Nordic countries
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ReviewBook review: The Creative Worlds of Joseph Joachim
Robin Stowell reviews a collection of papers on the 19th-century violin virtuoso, edited by Valerie Woodring Goertzen and Robert Whitehouse Eshbach
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ReviewBook review: The Caldersmith Papers: Writings on Guitar and Violin Acoustics
Jim Woodhouse reviews a collection of papers by Australian luthier and researcher Graham Caldersmith, from the 1970s to 2000s
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ReviewBook review: Got Beethoven: My First 40 Years with the Brodsky Quartet
Tully Potter reviews the second volume of memoirs by the Brodsky Quartet’s Paul Cassidy, in which he recalls his time with the foursome
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ReviewBook review: Practice Mind: The Complete Practice Model
Janet Banks reviews the latest volume by Hans Jørgen Jensen and Oleksander Mycyk on the best methods of practising the cello
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ReviewBook review: Distant Melodies: Music in Search of Home
Julian Haylock reviews a volume of musings on music and geography by Edward Dusinberre, first violinist of the Takács Quartet
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ReviewBook review: Violin Fingerboard Mastery: Contemporary Mapping Exercises and Improvisation Studies
Alex Laing reads US violinist Jason Anick’s method for learning how to improvise
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ReviewBook review: 75 Years on 4 Strings: The Life and Music of François Rabbath
Cathy Elliott reads Hans Sturm’s biography of possibly the most significant double bassist of the 20th century
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ReviewBook review: The Sound of Memory: Themes from a Violinist’s Life
Anne Inglis reads Rebecca Fischer’s memoir of life in the Chiara Quartet and general musings on music
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ReviewBook review: Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
Julian Haylock reads through Natalie Hodges’ insightful thoughts on being a musician through the prisms of neuroscience and quantum physics
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ReviewBook review: Whole Notes: Life Lessons through Music
Celia Cobb reads a compelling memoir by Australian cellist, violist and teacher Ed Ayres
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ReviewBook review: Orchestra Management Handbook: Building Relationships in Turbulent Times
Mark Pemberton examines Travis Newton’s volume on how to be an orchestra manager during a pandemic and other crises
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ReviewBook review: Antonio & Isaac
Julian Haylock reads Todd Shimoda’s novel imagining what might have happened if Antonio Stradivari had met Sir Isaac Newton
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ReviewBook review: The Luthier’s Manual by J.C. Maugin
Andrew Dipper delves into a new translation of the 19th-century treatise by John Saucier, W. Brad Holley and Kate Rickenbacker