tweetmeme_url=’http://xplayer.org/?p=51′; tweetmeme_style = ‘normal’;tweetmeme_source = ‘iupiter’; In these days of plentiful new [and expensive] publications on the violin, second editions are likely to elicit as many groans as they do cheers. Anything which makes the reader once again dig deep into his or her wallet must offer enough that is significantly new. [...]

tweetmeme_url=’http://xplayer.org/?p=70′; tweetmeme_style = ‘normal’;tweetmeme_source = ‘iupiter’; Here is a delightful package for admirers of the great violinists of the 1950s captured on a regular arts television programme of the time. Heifetz, Milstein and Kogan may be missing but there is still much to enjoy, starting with a splendid rendition of Saint-Saens’s Introduction [...]

tweetmeme_url=’http://xplayer.org/?p=59′; tweetmeme_style = ‘normal’;tweetmeme_source = ‘iupiter’; This DVD program consists of two very short programs of four sections each. The first program, Dynamics and Tone, begins with a quick presentation of the elements of music. Each of the four sections on the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern eras then includes the growth [...]

tweetmeme_url=’http://xplayer.org/?p=57′; tweetmeme_style = ‘normal’;tweetmeme_source = ‘iupiter’; This treasury of information on music is an extremely impressive venture, resulting in a rich resource for students, teachers, advanced amateurs and all those who make music their business.
Cast in three volumes, comprehensively cross-referenced, the dictionary presents musical information in three modes: language (volume 1), musical [...]

tweetmeme_url=’http://xplayer.org/?p=63′; tweetmeme_style = ‘normal’;tweetmeme_source = ‘iupiter’; What the BBC has come to, we can explore in this abomination, featuring ‘two dazzling picture edits over one sumptuous soundtrack’. Let me translate: the players are miming and someone thinks you want to see footage of them in a variety of garb at the National [...]

tweetmeme_url=’http://xplayer.org/?p=54′; tweetmeme_style = ‘normal’;tweetmeme_source = ‘iupiter’; With recent releases of material by Dave Holland, Duke Ellington and the Modern Jazz Quartet, owning a DVD player is becoming essential for any serious jazz fan. But the unheralded quality of material and cinematic grace of Paul Balmer’s documentary raises the art to a new [...]

tweetmeme_url=’http://xplayer.org/?p=67′; tweetmeme_style = ‘normal’;tweetmeme_source = ‘iupiter’; This superb compilation consists of two of those little films you sometimes catch on German or Czech television (and used to enjoy on the BBC), in which first-rate chamber musicians play a single work in a pleasing-looking location.
The players, apparently filmed in 1992, are leading members [...]