All Editorial articles – Page 4
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Book review: The Fractured Self: Selected German Letters of the Australian-born Violinist Alma Moodie, 1918–1943
Tully Potter reviews a comprehensive collection of letters which cast light on the life and career of one of the early 20th century’s best known female violinists
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Book review: Artistic Violins and Bows: The Music Region of Markneukirchen and Schönbach
Andrew Dipper reviews Bruce Babbitt and Brandon Godman’s latest book on the ‘Musikwinkel’ of eastern Germany which became one of the world’s great heartlands of instrument making in the 19th century
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News
Violins to honour war poets at Wilfred Owen Festival
The instruments, dedicated to Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, will be donated to the town of Oswestry at the festival’s opening on 15 March
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IPCI marks 25 years of pernambuco conservation
The International Pernambuco Conservation Initiative will celebrate the anniversary with a benefit concert in May 2025
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Stolen: 1900 violin by Eugenio Praga
The instrument was taken from a train carriage in northern Italy on Thursday 5 March
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Kuss Quartet: Schubert, Andre, Ter Schiphorst
A revealing juxtaposition of old and new from this adventurous quartet
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Giovanni Sollima: Al-Bunduqiyya: The Lost Concerto
Plenty of daring on display from an enterprising cellist–composer
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Jerusalem Quartet: Shostakovich
Grittily human readings of music close to this ensemble’s heart
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Thomas Kaufmann, Camerata Bern: Exile
The concept may be questionable, but the performances carry the day
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The Strad Recommends: Alina Ibragimova: Schumann
A long-standing partnership finds revelatory riches in Schumann
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The Strad Recommends: Silesian Quartet: Górecki
Mesmerising accounts of works originally written for the Kronos
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The Strad Recommends: Sacconi Quartet: Dove
Compelling music from one of today’s most distinct composerly voices
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Concert review: Timothy Ridout (viola) Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester/Robin Ticciati
Carlos Maria Solare hears the premiere of Mark Simpson’s Viola Concerto and Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ at the Berlin Philharmonie on 15 December 2024
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Concert review: Vertavo Quartet
Bruce Hodges visits the Perelman Theater, Philadelphia, PA, US, on 12 December 2024 for the performance of Elizabeth Maconchy, Ravel and Britten
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Concert review: Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello) Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano)
Bruce Hodges reviews what he heard at the Perelman Theater in Philadelphia on 13 December 2024, comprising Mendelssohn, Fauré, Natalie Klouda and Rachmaninoff
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Concert review: Ariel Quartet, Alisa Weilerstein (cello)
Bruce Hodges hears a cornucopia of composers at the Perelman Theater, Philadelphia, on 15 December 2024, followed by Schubert’s String Quintet in C major
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Concert review: Gil Shaham (violin) Czech Philharmonic/Semyon Bychkov
Leah Hollingsworth hears the performance of Dvořák and Mahler at New York’s Carnegie Hall on 4 December 2024