MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
A major pinnacle of harmonic and technical challenge for the violin
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
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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