Book Reviews – Page 5
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ReviewBook review: An Auditioning Double Bassist’s Tool Kit
Cathy Elliott looks through Jon McCullough-Benner’s book featuring bowings, fingerings and useful tips for standard audition repertoire
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ReviewBook review: Mstislav Rostropovich: Cellist, Teacher, Legend
Tully Potter reviews an updated version of Elizabeth Wilson’s authoritative biography of one of the 20th century’s greatest cellists
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ReviewBook review: The Fulton Collection: A Guided Tour
John Dilworth reads through a guided tour of one of the finest stringed instrument collections of modern times
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ReviewBook review: The Bach Cello Suites: A Companion
Janet Banks reviews British cellist Steven Isserlis’s thoughts on the history and performance of the famed solo cello suites
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ReviewBook review: Violins and Hope: From the Holocaust to Symphony Hall
Violinist Raphael Klayman reads Daniel Levin’s well-illustrated account of Amnon Weinstein’s project to collect instruments made during the Holocaust
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ReviewBook review: Stringtastic Beginners
Alex Laing reviews the latest teaching method from Faber, for violin, viola, cello and double bass
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ReviewBook review: The Double Bass Book
Philip Brown reviews a comprehensive guide to the double bass, published for the first time in English
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ReviewBook review: Exercises and Scales for Violin Positions: Handbook for Violin Lessons
Celia Cobb reviews a guide to shifting and position-work by Ines Ana Tomić
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ReviewBook review: I Am Cellist
Tully Potter reviews the autobiography of Australia-based cellist Dave Loew
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ReviewBook review: The (Fr)agile Orchestra: Empowerment strategies for orchestras
Mark Pemberton, director of the Association of British Orchestras, reports on a book of essays envisioning the challenges and possibilities for orchestras in the 21st century
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ReviewBook and sheet music review: Beethoven String Quartet op.131
Robin Stowell reviews both a new Bärenreiter urtext edition of the work, and a book-length commentary on the piece by Nancy November
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ReviewBook review: The Sheku Kanneh-Mason Cello Collection
Janet Banks reviews the superstar cellist’s first compendium of pieces for his instrument
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ReviewBook review: 1 Teaches 2 Learn: Private music teaching and you
Celia Cobb reviews a book (and e-book) filled with interviews and advice from a lifetime of string teaching
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ReviewBook review: The Paganini of the Double Bass: Bottesini in Britain
Stephen Street reviews one of the first works in English on the great 19th-century double bassist Giovanni Bottesini
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ReviewBook review: A Life in Music: Memories of 80 years with the violin
Julian Haylock reviews the autobiography of violinist and Royal Academy of Music pedagogue György Pauk
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ReviewBook review: Rethinking Social Action Through Music: The Search for Coexistence and Citizenship in Medellín’s Music Schools
Jonathan Govias reviews a book by Geoffrey Baker examining the concept - and feasiblity - of ’social action through music’
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ReviewBook review: Feine und bedeutende Streichinstrumente
Benjamin Hebbert reviews an anthology of instruments by German violin dealer Rudolf Eckstein, witht text in German and English
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ReviewBook review: Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire
Carlos Maria Solare reviews David M. Bynog’s latest book, the latest in the Notes for Performers series
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ReviewBook review: Sight Reading Strings: A progressive method
Alex Laing reviews a new sightreading method catering for all string players - violin, viola, cello and double bass
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ReviewBook review: Gone: a Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
Catherine Nelson reviews Min Kym’s memoir about the calamitous theft of her 1696 Stradivari from outside a London cafe