JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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A major pinnacle of harmonic and technical challenge for the violin
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MARIA DUARTE goes down a bilingual rabbit hole with an impressive Jodie Foster
DAVID HARVIE recommends a selection of Harry Cleaver’s writing that documents working-class activism and offers a method, and a way of understanding and investigating the world
DAVID YEARSLEY is fascinated by the account of four composers who transformed their experiences of the second world war and the Holocaust into deeply moving works of art
PETER MASON thrills to the sound of south London-born Yussef Dayes, and the galaxy of musicians drawn into his orbit
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Jack Liebeck
Ysaÿe
(Orchard Classics)
EUGENE YSAYE (1858-1931) was a virtuoso Belgian violinist and composer. Each of his sonatas was written for friends who were also violinists. He captured what many leading violin teachers believed to be the soul and spirit of each violinist to perfection.
His style Gothic Wagnerian in its ambition and swagger, juxtaposed with delicate and fragile inner moments reminiscent of the finest Debussy.
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