All articles by Janet Banks
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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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ReviewConcert review: Lawrence Power (viola) Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon
Janet Banks visits London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on 29 June 2025 for the performance of Berlioz and Mendelssohn
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ReviewConcert review: Castalian Quartet, Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
Janet Banks visits London’s Wigmore Hall on 16 May 2025 for the recital of Natalie Klouda, Thomas Adès and Schubert
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ReviewThe Strad Recommends: Sheku Kanneh-Mason: Britten, Shostakovich
An album abounding in fearless musicianship
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ReviewConcert review: Anastasia Kobekina (cello) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Stephanie Childress
Janet Banks makes the journey to London’s Cadogan Hall on 12 March 2025 for the recital of Tchaikovsky, Rossini and Bizet/Serebrier
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ReviewConcert review: Carducci Quartet, Elmore Quartet
Janet Banks attends the performance by the two quartets at London’s Milton Court Concert Hall on 29 April 2025, to hear works by Shostakovich, and Elena Firsova
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ReviewConcert review: Capucelli/Gautier Capuçon
Janet Banks visits London’s Wigmore Hall on 29 March 2025 for the performance of Piazzolla, Delibes, Grieg and Bryce Dessner
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ReviewConcert review: Gautier Capuçon (cello) Frank Braley (piano)
Janet Banks visits London’s Wigmore Hall on 30 March 2025 for a Beethoven cello marathon
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ReviewConcert review: Nemanja Radulović (violin) Strings of the Philharmonia Orchestra
Janet Banks visits London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on 28 February 2025 for the performance of Bach, Falla, Muréna and the soloist’s own composition
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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
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ReviewConcert review: Francesca Dego (violin) Alessandro Taverna (piano)
Janet Banks visits London’s Wigmore Hall on 30 December 2024 for a recital comprising Schoenberg, Strauss and Beethoven
