Recording reviews – Page 71
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ReviewPatricia Kopatchinskaja: Pierrot lunaire
Not just a violinist – PatKop’s singing alter ego is extraordinary
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ReviewAlessio Pianelli: A Sicilian Traveller
Spirited arrangements from an innovative and idiomatic cellist
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ReviewNils Mönkemeyer: Vivaldi, Rolla, Tartini, Paganini, Sciarrino
Inventive viola arrangements the Red Priest would surely have enjoyed
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ReviewBook review: The Baroque Violin & Viola: A Fifty-Lesson Course
Simon Standage reviews Walter S. Reiter’s two-volume work on learning to play the period instruments
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ReviewBook review: Fractal Fingering: A scaleable concept of finger geometry for the double bass
Caroline Emery reviews David Allen Moore’s innovative method for learning the double bass
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ReviewVioleta Vicci: Mirror Images
A remarkable concept album by a unique and imaginative solo performer
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ReviewViktoria Mullova: Beethoven
A bright, fresh ‘Spring’ characterises violinist’s second Beethoven outing
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ReviewAnna Kreetta Gribajcevic, Fine Arts Quartet: Spirit of Bohemia
Intimate, chamber-style performances capture the music’s gentle charm
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ReviewIsabelle Faust: Eötvös, Stravinsky
Hungarian composer’s mesmerising musical tribute to Spanish architecture
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ReviewManchester Collective: The Centre Is Everywhere
Sonic magic and immaculate playing combine in an unmissable recording
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ReviewRenaud Capuçon, Tabea Zimmermann: Jarrell
Two concertos for star soloists couldn’t have more committed performances
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ReviewLeft Coast Chamber Ensemble: Messiaen, Rohde
There’s a wartime vibe in this well-coordinated Quatuor
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ReviewGli Incogniti: Beyond the Limits
Bach Jr’s inventive string symphonies sparkle in these performers’ hands
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ReviewBook review: The Piedmontese Violin Makers in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Alberto Giordano reviews Claudio Amighetti’s magnum opus on the luthiers of north-west Italy
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ReviewBook review: Complete Method for the Double Bass/String Quartet op. 2 (Giovanni Bottesini)
Leon Bosch reviews the first two publications in a project to create urtexts of all the Italian composer’s works
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ReviewLive-streamed concert review: Ilze Klava (viola) Bergen Philharmonic/Edward Gardner
Andrew Mellor watches the performance at the Grieghallen Bergen, Norway, on 3 February 2021
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ReviewLive-streamed concert review: Mairéad Hickey (violin) Stephen Waarts (violin) Santiago Cañón Valencia (cello) Ivan Karizna (cello) Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra/Christoph Eschenbach
Peter Quantrill gives his views on the performance at the HR-Sendesaal Frankfurt, Germany, on 4 February 2021
