All review articles
-
Review
Book review: The Carlo Bergonzi Violins in Baron Johann Knoop’s Collection
The Carlo Bergonzi Violins in Baron Johann Knoop’s Collection Ed. Andrea Zanrè 112PP ISBN 9788890719455 Edizioni Scrollavezza & Zanrè/Jan Röhrmann €150 The third in this impressive series of violin analysis books is a triumph, filled with fascinating chapters and detailed high-resolution photographs and images from ...
-
Review
Book review: The Creative Worlds of Joseph Joachim
Robin Stowell reviews a collection of papers on the 19th-century violin virtuoso, edited by Valerie Woodring Goertzen and Robert Whitehouse Eshbach
-
Review
Book 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
-
Review
Book review: Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire
Carlos Maria Solare reviews David M. Bynog’s latest book, the latest in the Notes for Performers series
-
Review
Book review: Feine und bedeutende Streichinstrumente
Benjamin Hebbert reviews an anthology of instruments by German violin dealer Rudolf Eckstein, witht text in German and English
-
Review
Book review: Sight Reading Strings: A progressive method
Alex Laing reviews a new sightreading method catering for all string players - violin, viola, cello and double bass
-
Review
Book review: Lev’s Violin
Helen Michetschläger reviews Helena Attlee’s book about lutherie in Cremona, through the eyes of a non-luthier
-
Review
Book review: Monograph of the Antonio Stradivari Cello c.1690 ‘Barjansky’
Florian Leonhard reviews an extensive study of the famous cello, including dendrochronology, CT scans and posters
-
Review
Book review: The Complete Special Edition of Bach’s Fugues for Solo Violin: Vol.1
Robin Stowell reviews the first two volumes in Biobach Music’s details edition of Bach’s fugues
-
Review
Book review: The King of Violins: The Extraordinary Life of Ma Sicong, China’s Greatest Violin Virtuoso
Tully Potter reviews a biography of a renowned violinist who fell foul of Maoist China
-
Review
Book review: My Violin Needs Help!: A repair diagnostics guide for players and teachers
Celia Cobb reviews a manual that explains the basics of violin maintenance to the layperson
-
-
Review
Book 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
-
Review
Live-streamed concert review: Steven Isserlis (cello) Mishka Rushdie Momen (piano)
Tim Homfray watches the performance at London’s Wigmore Hall on 2 February 2021, from the comfort of his own home
-
Review
Concert review: Big Dog Little Dog
Leah Hollingsworth reports on ’Musical Storefronts’, an innovative way of performing during the pandemic, in New York on 5 February 2021
-
Review
Book review: Diabolus in Musica: A Story of Niccolo Paganini
Julian Haylock reviews an unproduced screenplay of the 19th-century violinist’s life, now published in book form
-
Review
Live-streamed concert review: Eldbjørg Hemsing (violin) Sveinung Bjelland (piano)
Tim Homfray watches a Facebook performance on 19 March from the comfort of his own armchair
-
Review
Book review: The Viola da Gamba
Robin Stowell reviews a book released in Italian in 2010, translated into English for the first time
-
Review
Book review: Classical Music for Children: 22 Easy Pieces for Violoncello and Piano
Janet Banks reviews a book for young players translated into English for the first time
-
Review
Serenade - Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence; Valse sentimentale op.51 no.6 (arr. Schmidt); October op.37 (arr. Schmidt); Nocturne op.19 no.4; Serenade in C major op.48
Deliciously rich and full-fat accounts of high Romantic repertoire