Reviews – Page 42
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ReviewMatt Haimovitz: Primavera 1: The Wind
Auspicious start to an ambitious, Botticelli-inspired commission project
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ReviewBook 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
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ReviewEmma Wernig: The Viennese Viola
Debut album of Viennese delights demonstrates poise and promise
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ReviewHaydn: Valencia Baryton Project
The baryton enjoys star billing in delightfully inventive Haydn
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ReviewSueye Park: Journey through a Century
Treasure trove of a solo recital spans a hundred years of violin music
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ReviewSebastian Bohren: Mozart
Violinist aims for perfection in elegant and well-balanced Mozart concertos
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ReviewPekka Kuusisto: First Light
Pioneering violinist spotlights two New York composers in a moving album
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ReviewFrancisco Fullana: Bach’s Long Shadow
Imaginative and sometimes wild take on Bach and his solo violin legacy
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ReviewVadim Gluzman: Beethoven, Schnittke
Vadim Gluzman: Beethoven, Schnittke The Strad Issue: September 2021 Description: Poised performances threaded through with a sense of Russian melancholy Musicians: Vadim Gluzman (violin) Lucerne Symphony Orchestra/James Gaffigan Works: Beethoven: Violin Concerto. Schnittke: Violin Concerto no.3 Catalogue number: BIS BIS-2392 (hybrid SACD) Alfred Schnittke wrote cadenzas for ...
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ReviewAris Quartet: Beethoven, Resch
An intense, tightly wound Rasumovsky plus expressive contemporary response
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ReviewJohn-Henry Crawford: Dialogo
Impressive playing by young cellist fresh from competition success
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ReviewLinos Piano Trio: Stolen Music
Extraordinarily good reimagining of 20th-century orchestral classics
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ReviewNicolas Altstaedt: Fagerlund
Finnish composer’s cello concerto is convincing in the hands of its dedicatee
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ReviewAmandine Beyer: Bach, Pisendel
Classy, light take on sonatas by Bach and his contemporary countryman
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ReviewBook review: Gone: a Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
Catherine Nelson reviews Min Kym’s memoir about the calamitous theft of her 1696 Stradivari from outside a London cafe
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ReviewBook review: Lev’s Violin
Helen Michetschläger reviews Helena Attlee’s book about lutherie in Cremona, through the eyes of a non-luthier
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ReviewLive-streamed concert review: Nicola Benedetti (violin) London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda
Peter Quantrill hears a virtual performance from LSO St Luke’s, London, 29 April 2021
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ReviewLive-streamed concert review: Rachel Podger (violin)
Tim Homfray hears a performance from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on 21 May 2021
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ReviewLive-streamed concert review: Rautio Piano Trio
Tim Homfray tunes into a virtual performacne from London’s Kings Place on 30 May 2021