Book Reviews – Page 4
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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
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ReviewBook review: Audition Day: Your Guide for a Successful Orchestral Cello Audition
Janet Banks reads a guide for budding orchestra members to secure their dream job, by Boston-based cellist Blaise Déjardin
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ReviewBook review: Top Banana
Alex Laing reviews the latest series of pieces for young players, from string pedagogues and authors Celia Cobb and Naomi Yandell
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ReviewBook review: Nigel Kennedy Uncensored!
Tully Potter reads the autobiography of the superstar British violinist, whose version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons became the best-selling classical recording of all time
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ReviewBook review: Music, Dance and Franco-Italian Cultural Exchange c.1700
Robin Stowell reviews Dona Fader’s latest publication, on the life and career of French Baroque composer Michel Pignolet de Montéclair
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ReviewBook review: Have Violin, Will Travel: The Louis Persinger Story
Tully Potter reviews a biography of the US violinist and pedagogue who taught Menuhin, Ricci and Stern among others
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ReviewBook review: London College of Music Violin Handbooks
Celia Cobb casts her eye over the newly released, and completely overhauled, volumes by the LCM
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ReviewBook review: Joachim Tielke: Kunstvolle Musikinstrumente des Barock/Joachim Tielke: Neue Funde zu Werk und Wirkung
Joachim Tielke: Kunstvolle Musikinstrumente des Barock Friedemann and Barbara Hellwig 456PP ISBN 9783422070783 Deutscher Kunstverlag €78 Joachim Tielke: Neue Funde zu Werk und Wirkung Friedemann and Barbara Hellwig 80PP ISBN 9783422982116 Deutscher Kunstverlag €30 Published in 2011, Joachim Tielke: Kunstvolle Musikinstrumente des Barock (‘Ornate musical ...
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ReviewBook review: Jascha Heifetz in South Africa: Insights from 1932
Tully Potter reviews Michael Brittan’s picaresque account of the superstar violinist’s tour of South Africa
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ReviewBook review: Unconditional Teaching
Celia Cobb reviews the latest in Paul Harris’s illuminating series of books on music education