Books
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ReviewBook review: Thumb Position
Caroline Emery reviews double bass tutor Charlotte Mohrs’s introduction to playing in thumb position, published in English for the first time
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ReviewBook review: A Survey of Solo Works for the Violoncello
Janet Banks reviews cello professor Brian Hodges’ volume on cello repertoire from the 17th century to the present day
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ReviewBook review: The Instrumentalist
Anne Inglis reviews Harriet Constable’s fictionalised account of the life of violinist Anna Maria della Pietà, protégé of Vivaldi
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ReviewBook review: Teaching Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass: Historical and Modern Pedagogical Practices
Philippa Bunting peruses a volume on historical teaching methods penned by US educators Dijana Ihas, Miranda Wilson and Gaelen McCormick
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ReviewBook review: String Virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples: Culture, Power, and Music Institutions
Robin Stowell appraises Guido Olivieri’s monograph on the great players of the mid-Italian city during the Enlightenment era
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ReviewBook review: Employment and Vulnerabilities in the World of Orchestral Musicians: Symphonic Metamorphoses
Mark Pemberton, former chief executive of the Association of British Orchestras, gives a critical appraisal of Heather Kurzbauer’s volume on the running of an orchestra
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ReviewBook review: Together on Strings
Celia Cobb goes through Esther Klein and Michael Dartsch’s collection of 23 ‘German and international’ song arrangements for young string players
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ReviewBook review: The Power of Practice: How Music and Yoga Transformed the Life and Work of Yehudi Menuhin
Yung-Chiao Wei reads Kristin Wendland’s volume on the benefits of yoga for string players, focusing particularly on the regimen of Yehudi Menuhin
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ReviewBook review: Up Bow, Down Bow: A Child with Down Syndrome and His Journey to Master the Cello
Jacqueline Vanasse reads an account of teaching a child with Down’s syndrome written by his mother and principal cello teacher
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ReviewBook review: Around the World with a Violin
Laurence Vittes reads the autobiography of violinist Felix Ayo, a founder member of I Musici chamber ensemble
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ReviewBook review: The Amazing Violin Comics: Tips for practicing and mental images for learning stringed instruments
Lauren Wesley-Smith examines Lauri Hämäläinen’s innovative book giving visual tips and hints on playing the violin for students
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ReviewBook review: Violin Junior
Celia Cobb reviews Ros Stephen’s latest collection of method books aimed at younger players
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ReviewBook review: The Living Art of Violin Playing: Progressive Form
Philippa Bunting reviews Maureen Taranto-Pyatt’s well-described account of her theories on ’progressive form’
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ReviewBook review: Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World
Tully Potter reviews Leah Broad’s account of the lives of four pioneering women in music: Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell and Doreen Carwithen
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ReviewBook review: Bows, Strings and Dreams
Lauren Wesley-Smith reviews the autobiography of 16-year-old violin wunderkind Leia Zhu
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ReviewBook review: Italian Violin Making in Argentina
Bharat Khandekar reviews Pablo A. Saraví’s publication on the little-known culture of lutherie among the immigrant population of South America’s second-largest country
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ReviewBook review: Bach Six Suites for Violoncello solo (BWV1007–12) arranged for viola solo
Misha Galaganov reviews Bärenreiter’s new edition of the Bach Suites edited for performance by violists
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ReviewBook review: Angel Eyes
Anne Inglis reviews the first in a projected quintet of novels by Roger Graham Hargrave centred on the violin business
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ReviewBook review: Collaborations: Reflections on 50 Years of Working with Composers
Pwyll ap Siôn reads the memoirs of Irvine Arditti, new music specialist and founder of the eponymous quartet
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ReviewBook review: Violin Makers in Naples from the 17th Century
Christian Lloyd reads Ernesto de Angelis’s treatise on Neapolitan lutherie, now translated into English for the first time
