All Editorial articles
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Premium ❘ FeatureBaroque Set-up: In a Land without Rules
With the growth in popularity of historically informed performance, more players are requesting Baroque-style instruments – but the process of converting an instrument is fraught with uncertainty. Sarah Peck presents an overview of the Baroque set-up process, and corrects some common misconceptions along the way
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Concert review: Alina Ibragimova (violin) Cédric Tiberghien (piano) Doric Quartet
Harriet Smith ventures to London’s Wigmore Hall on 30 March 2022 for a feast of Ysaÿe, Lekeu and Debussy
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Concert review: Alban Gerhardt (cello) Steven Osborne (piano)
Tim Homfray hears a recital of Shostakovich, Britten, Brahms and Dutilleux at London’s Wigmore Hall on 15 March 2022
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Concert review: Veronika Eberle (violin) London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle
Peter Quantrill hears the performance of Beethoven and Widmann at LSO St Luke’s, London, on 12 March 2022
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Concert review: Michael Barenboim (violin, viola) Nathalia Milstein (piano)
Carlos Maria Solare attends the performance at Berlin’s Boulezsaal on 31 March 2022 to hear Vieuxtemps’s Viola Sonata and Franck’s Violin Sonata
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Concert review: Ébène Quartet
Bruce Hodges visits New York’s Zankel Hall on 30 March 2022 for Mozart, Shostakovich and Schumann
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Concert review: Avi Avital (mandolin) Brooklyn Rider
Dennis Rooney attends the Kaufmann Auditorium, 92nd Street Y, NY, on 15 March 2022 for a concert of Boccherini, Osvaldo Golijov, Clarice Assad, Caroline Shaw, Colin Jacobsen and Lev Zhurbin
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Concert review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Bruce Hodges watches the performance of Enescu, Shostakovich and Mendelssohn octets at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NY, on 6 March 2022
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Book 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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Book 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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Dejana Sekulić: Temporality of the Impossible
Plenty to absorb in this daringly exploratory album
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Črtomir Šiškovič: Pupils of Tartini Vol.2
A long-awaited second volume exploring the legacy of Tartini
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Pieter Wispelwey: Weinberg
Another key addition to the discography of this Polish-born Soviet master
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Adrian Butterfield: Leclair
Stylish period-instrument advocacy of this founder of the French violin school
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