Books – Page 4
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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
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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