All Books articles
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ReviewBook review: John Williams: A Composer’s Life
Brian Hodges reviews Tim Greiving’s monumental biography of America’s foremost film composer
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ReviewBook review: A Cultural History of the Violin in Nineteenth-Century London: From Instrument to Art
Robin Stowell reads Tom Wilder’s socio-economic analysis of the violin’s status as a cultural artefact throughout the Victorian era
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ReviewBook review: The Eyes of Bach
Raphael Klayman reads Marc Moskovitz’s historical novel imagining the great composer’s relationship with cellist Carl Friedrich Barth
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ReviewBook review: Re-Reading the Beethoven Violin Sonatas
Robin Stowell reads pianist Daniel Tong’s detailed analysis of Beethoven’s ten sonatas for piano and violin
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ReviewBook review: Theme and Variations: Cautionary Tales of a 2nd Violin
Anne Inglis reviews the autobiography of British violinist Peter Markham, a member of the Edinburgh Quartet for more than two decades
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ReviewBook review: Kloz: The Violinmaker Family from Mittenwald
Bharat Khandekar reads Wolfgang Zunterer’s long-awaited volume on one of Germany’s most important violin making families
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ReviewBook review: The Art of Collaboration: Chamber Music Rehearsal Techniques and Team Building
Celia Cobb reads a new book by Annie Fullard and Dorianne Cotter-Lockard on strategies for teaching chamber music
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ReviewBook review: The Power of Music: How Music Connects Us All
Janet Banks reads Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s first book, which covers everything from his early years in Nottingham to his public comments about Rule Britannia!
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ReviewBook review: The Invisible Force of Music: Tapping into Your Mind and Heart Potential for Performance Music
Anne Inglis reads Paulina Derbez’s book on how to achieve ’a mental, emotional and physical balance within ourselves as artists of sound’
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ReviewBook review: Liuteria Mantovana Vol.1
Alberto Giordano peruses the first volume in Andrea Zanrè and Philip Kass’s monumental investigation into the violin makers who made their homes in the Italian city of Mantua
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ReviewBook review: We Knocked Their Socks Off: The First American-Trained String Quartet (1927-1981) – The Curtis String Quartet
Tully Potter gives a robust opinion of Tim Bosworth’s account of one of the earliest American-trained string quartets, featuring Jascha Brodsky and Max Aronoff
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ReviewBook review: Made in Italy: Strings Attached – Four Seasons of an Italian Violin
Raphael Klayman reads Thomas Walter Kelley’s account of his journey to Italy to learn the history of his 1810 Ceruti violin
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ReviewBook review: Robert Schumann’s Leipzig Chamber Works: Music in the Great Stream of Time
Robin Stowell reviews Julie Hedges Brown’s study of Schumann’s three string quartets op.41, Piano Quintet op.44 and Piano Quartet op.47
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ReviewBook review: Antonio Stradivari: The Complete Works
Eric Wen scrutinises the mammoth six-volume work by Beares Publishing comprising all the known works of Antonio Stradivari along with his sons
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ReviewBook review: The Schubert Treatment: A Story of Music and Healing
Anne Inglis gives her thoughts on cellist Claire Oppert’s book detailing her experiences of how music can transform the lives of dementia patients and autistic children
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ReviewBook review: Notes for Cellists: A Guide to the Repertoire
Lauren Wesley-Smith reads Miranda Wilson’s detailed guide to the cello repertoire
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ReviewBook review: Violin in Action Baby: Preparatory Violin Course
Mathew Lee reads Kristina Mirkovic’s method for teaching very young children, a companion volume to her ‘Violin in Action’ series
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ReviewBook review: Songs My Mother Never Taught Me
Nathaniel Vallois reviews violinist Nigel Kennedy’s first book of compositions
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ReviewBook review: Bach Cello Suites BWV1007–1012
Jeffrey Solow reviews a new edition of the legendary suites edited by cellist Jonas Seeberg
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ReviewBook review: Cello Notes: Music and the Urgency of Time
Janet Banks reads Mavis Himes’s account of taking up the cello as a beginner in her late sixties
