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REVIEW From Bach to Radiohead: virtuoso mandolinist Chris Thile’s Queen Elizabeth Hall concert offered joy and humour as well as tears and shared meaning I’m still thinking about Chris Thile’s concert last night at Queen Elizabeth Hall, and even having the occasional flashback. Who would think that a solo mandolin player could hold the audience of the London Jazz Festival pin-drop quiet with an entire Bach sonata (apart from the odd ripple of laughter – proving that classical

INTERVIEW I had the chance to fangirl/interview my childhood violin hero Itzhak Perlman, and to ask him about his inimitable sound I’ve interviewed Itzhak Perlman for the cover of November’s Strad magazine . I’ll say that again for 15-year-old me, trying not to shout: I interviewed Itzhak Perlman for the cover of this month’s Strad magazine! Yes, the awkward, odd teenager who was obsessed with Perlman and Thomas Hardy rather than Duran Duran and makeup, and practically wore o

PREVIEW In my new interview with Nicola Benedetti for the BBC Music Magazine August issue she explained how being a violinist prepared...