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Premium ❘ ArticleThree Lives in One
Yehudi Menuhin’s extraordinarily multifaceted life and career more than surpassed the traditional role of the solo concert violinist. Here friends, family and colleagues who knew him, studied with him and worked alongside him describe their association with and memories of the great man
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Tessa Lark, Amy Yang: Fantasy
A violinist to watch – this Lark is most definitely on the ascent
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Time & Eternity
A passionate, challenging and ultimately fascinating ‘concept’ album
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Pavel Haas Quartet: Shostakovich
A quartet in its element in the intense, highly charged music of Shostakovich
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Black Oak Ensemble: Silenced Voices
Another chance to sing out for more voices lost to the Holocaust
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Johannes Moser, Alasdair Beatson: Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn
An exhilarating programme of works for cello and piano captures these composer siblings’ high spirits
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Hagai Shaham, Raphael Wallfisch, Arnon Erez: Beethoven
Three composers seen through a glittering Nordic prism
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Christian Tetzlaff: Beethoven
Performances of two cornerstone concertos that may divide audiences
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A Massive Achievement
Made in 1677, the ‘Romanov’ Nicolò Amati viola is one of the maker’s late masterpieces. Alberto Giordano and Rudolf Hopfner investigate its turbulent history and examine how it fits into the Amati family’s oeuvre
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A Treasury of Sound
The Royal Danish Orchestra has been adding to its collection of fine stringed instruments for centuries – but there is revolution as well as evolution behind its distinctive string sound, which is unmistakable whatever the repertoire and whoever the conductor, finds Andrew Mellor
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Into the Light
Why it took nearly a century for an important, beautiful concert piece for cello and piano from a 20th-century female composer to be published is incomprehensible. We can certainly blame contemporaneous sexist attitudes towards women, but was there also something more personal here?
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Like Fathers, Like Sons
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Émile Auguste Ouchard, as well as the 40th of his son Bernard – both regarded as among the 20th century’s finest bow makers. Thomas Martin, Andrew McGill, Martin Lawrence and George Martin examine the legacy of the Ouchard dynasty, particularly ...
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A Conductor’s Tale
Music director Manfred Honeck has brought a distinctly European flavour to the Pittsburgh Symphony. Gavin Dixon spoke to him at his summer festival in Wolfegg, Germany, as he prepared to embark on a tour of Europe with his Pittsburgh forces – and discovered how his time as a violist in ...
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Concert review: Joshua Roman (violin) Conor Hanick (piano)
Leah Hollingsworth went to New York’s Church of the Intercession on 18 September 2019
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Concert review: Jack Quartet, Either/Or, Richard Carrick (conductor)
Columbia University’s Miller Theatre was the venue for the 25 September 2019 concert, as Bruce Hodges found out
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Concert review: Israeli Chamber Project
Leah Hollingsworth hears the performance at Merkin Concert Hall on 26 September 2019
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Concert review: Talea Ensemble
Bruce Hodges hears the group perform at the Tenri Cultural Institute on 27 September 2019
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Concert review: Leila Josefowicz (violin) London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle
On 14 September 2019 Peter Quantrill saw the concert at London’s Barbican Hall
