Recording reviews – Page 64
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ReviewConcert review: Nicola Benedetti (violin)
Edward Bhesania hears the solo recital at London’s Barbican on 23 September 2021
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ReviewConcert review: Diotima Quartet, Mark Simpson (Clarinet)
Peter Quantrill hears the performance at London’s Kings Place on 30 September 2021
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ReviewBook review: The (Fr)agile Orchestra: Empowerment strategies for orchestras
Mark Pemberton, director of the Association of British Orchestras, reports on a book of essays envisioning the challenges and possibilities for orchestras in the 21st century
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ReviewBook and sheet music review: Beethoven String Quartet op.131
Robin Stowell reviews both a new Bärenreiter urtext edition of the work, and a book-length commentary on the piece by Nancy November
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ReviewBook review: The Sheku Kanneh-Mason Cello Collection
Janet Banks reviews the superstar cellist’s first compendium of pieces for his instrument
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ReviewBook review: 1 Teaches 2 Learn: Private music teaching and you
Celia Cobb reviews a book (and e-book) filled with interviews and advice from a lifetime of string teaching
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ReviewBook review: The Paganini of the Double Bass: Bottesini in Britain
Stephen Street reviews one of the first works in English on the great 19th-century double bassist Giovanni Bottesini
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ReviewJennifer Pike: The Polish Violin: Volume 2
Volume two of Pike’s Polish odyssey hits the mark with magical playing
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ReviewJanine Jansen: 12 Stradivari
Some first-class performances of much-recorded violin cornerstones
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ReviewReview round-up: BBC Proms 2021
Peter Quantrill attends the cream of the strings crop during this year’s Proms season at the Royal Albert Hall
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ReviewAugusta and Georgina McKay Lodge: Chamber Music from the Court of Frederick the Great
Exuberant playing of virtuoso works fit for a music-loving king
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ReviewRosanne Philippens: Haydn, Stravinsky
Innately musical playing of Haydn concertos peppered with Stravinsky
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ReviewARC Ensemble: Klebanov
Ukrainian composer’s quartets are an important addition to the repertoire
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ReviewChristoph Croisé: The Solo Album
Virtuoso and dramatic exploration of a century of solo cello music
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ReviewEngegård Quartet: Mozart
Elegant, understated yet sparkling playing of Mozart’s ‘Haydn’ quartets
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ReviewSilesian Quartet: Penderecki
Emotional and committed retrospective of 20th-century composer’s string quartets
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ReviewEliot Quartet: Thème Russe
Quartet celebrates folk connections with luminous finesse and a spicy kick
