Recording reviews – Page 11
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ReviewThe Strad Recommends: Isabelle Faust, Il Giardino Armonico: Locatelli
Soulfulness and brilliance are in plentiful supply on this winning album
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ReviewThe Strad Recommends: Emerson Quartet: Infinite Voyage
An affecting farewell from one of the major quartets of today
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ReviewOscar Shumsky: Live at Berkeley
A master violinist scintillates in a bold and brilliant programme
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ReviewBook review: Chaconne Handbook I–II
Robin Stowell reviews Márta Ábrahám’s treatise on the famed Chaconne, another in her series of discussions of Bach masterpieces
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ReviewBook review: The Empowered Performer
Anne Inglis reviews Sharon L. Stohrer’s text for players on building confidence and conquering performance anxiety
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ReviewAntonio Mostacci, Bologna Baroque: Vivaldi
Persuasive readings of a Baroque master, with colour to the fore
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ReviewBook review: Double Bass Basics
Eloise Riddell reviews Paul Harris and Jessica O’Leary’s new book in their beginner string series, this time aimed at bass players
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ReviewKungsbacka Piano Trio, Lawrence Power: Schumann
Much to engage in this second volume of chamber music
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ReviewFrancesca Dego, Timothy Ridout, Laura van der Heijden, Federico Colli: Mozart
Powerfully characterful performances, full of panache
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ReviewLutosławski Quartet: Kurpiński, Moniuszko, Noskowski
Fine playing but a variable offering of Polish Romantics
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ReviewViolinist Danae Papamattheou-Matschke: Bridges
An enticing introduction to Greek violin works of the last century
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ReviewTakács Quartet: Coleridge-Taylor, Dvořák
A striking coupling of familiar and unfamiliar reaps rewards
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ReviewSarah Jégou-Sageman (violin) Jeein You (cello): Fondation Gautier Capuçon Presents…
Promising artists emerge from cellist Gautier Capuçon’s foundation
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ReviewConcert review: Dorothee Oberlinger (recorders) Nils Mönkemeyer (viola)
Carlos Maria Solare ventures out to the Orangerie at Potsdam’s Sanssouci Palace on 21 June 2023 for a performance of Hildegard von Bingen, Konstantia Gourzi, Bach and Matteis
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ReviewConcert reviews: Bowdoin Festival
Bruce Hodges attends two performances at the Studzinski Recital Hall in Bowdoin, ME, US, on 28 and 30 June 2023
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ReviewConcert review: Frank Huang (violin) New York Philharmonic/Jaap Van Zweden
Leah Hollingsworth hears the performance of Sibelius and Julia Wolfe at New York’s David Geffen Hall on 3 June 2023