All Books articles – Page 6
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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: 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
