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ArticleSchubert: Piano Quintet in A major D667 ‘Trout’, Die Forelle D550. Tomter/Sollid: Fjellørreten. Whittall: Hors d’oeuvre. Schmid/Carstensen: Forelle Blue
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A festive performance of Schubert’s sociable masterpieceMusicians: Benjamin Schmid (violin) Lars Anders Tomter (viola) Jan Vogler (cello) Janne Saksala (double bass) Antti Siirala (piano) Erik Sollid (Hardanger fiddle) Stian Carstensen (accordion)Composer: Schubert, Tomter/Sollid, Whittall, Schmid/Carstensen With its unorthodox scoring, Schubert’s ‘Trout’ Quintet ...
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ArticleKurtág: Complete works for string quartet: Arioso – Hommage Á Walter Levin 85, 6 Moments musicaux, Hommage Á Jacob Obrecht, Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, Aus der Ferne III & V, Hom
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A winning exploration of the work of a master miniaturistMusicians: Athena QuartetComposer: KurtágGyörgy Kurtág’s intricately crafted and condensed works for string quartet reflect his debt to Webern: each small gesture is heavy with intent. The works span from his First Quartet, written ...
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ArticleAlfano: Violin Sonata in D major, Piano Quintet in A flat major, Nenia, Scherzino
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Chamber works from an Italian operatic composerMusicians: Elmira Darvarova, Mary Ann Mumm (violin) Craig Mumm (viola) Samuel Magill (cello) Scott Dunn (piano)Composer: AlfanoAlthough his name is remembered today almost exclusively for completing Puccini’s last great opera Turandot, Franco Alfano (1875–1954) was a ...
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ArticleFauré: Piano Trio, String Quartet, Piano Quartets, Piano Quintets, Violin Sonatas, Cello Sonatas, Romances, Berceuse, Andante, Élégie, Papillon, Sérénade, Sicilienne, Morceau de lecture, Morceau de le
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Fauré’s complete string chamber music in benchmark performancesMusicians: Renaud Capuçon (violin) Gérard Caussé (viola) Gautier Capuçon, Raphaël Merlin (cello) Michel Dalberto, Nicholas Angelich (piano) Ébène QuartetComposer: FauréThe Capuçon brothers, separately and together, have the lion’s share of this survey of Fauré’s chamber ...
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ArticleCroft: Violin Sonatas in A major, G minor & B minor, Harpsichord Suites in D minor, F major & G major Anonymous Violin Sonata in D minor
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Over-cautious accounts of English Baroque sonatasMusicians: Duo Dorado: Hazel Brooks (violin) David Pollock (harpsichord)Composer: CroftWilliam Croft’s three violin sonatas combine Italian and English idioms from the late 17th-century and are among the first sonatas for a single instrument and continuo to be ...
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ArticleBach to Tango. Works by Bach, Piazzolla, Dvorák, Rodygin, Brahms, Elgar, Kreisler, Bernstein, Gardner, Gershwin, Dyens & J. Gade
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: An uneven programme does little to hide the obvious skills of a young fiddlerMusicians: Caroline Adomeit (violin) Rochus Holewik (piano)Composer: Bach, Piazzolla, Dvorák, Rodygin, Brahms, Elgar, Kreisler, Bernstein, Gardner, Gershwin, Dyens & J. Gade The young German violinist Caroline Adomeit ...
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ArticleRöntgen: Violin Concertos in A minor & F sharp minor, Ballad
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A worthy disc exposing a rarely heard strand of late RomanticismMusicians: Liza Ferschtman (violin) Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz/David PorcelijnComposer: RöntgenThe posthumous reputation of German-trained Dutch polymath Julius Röntgen (1855–1932) is still relatively minor. As with many composers of his generation, it is probable ...
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ArticleBassolo. Works by R. Gabry?, Szalonek, Boguslawski, Cage, Grisey, Lauck, Dziadek, Roth, Scelsi, Oehring, Pritchard, Knüsel, Lee, Iršai & Xenakis
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Ear-bending playing from a master of the double bassMusicians: Aleksander Gabry? (double bass) Consuelo Giulianelli (harp) Jürg Henneberger, Daniel Buess (piano) Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra/Czeslaw Grabowski, Camerata Impuls Chamber Orchestra/Malgorzata KaniowskaComposer: R. Gabry?, Szalonek, Boguslawski, Cage, Grisey, Lauck, Dziadek, Roth, ...
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ArticleRavel: Violin Sonata in A major, Violin Sonata in G major, Tzigane, Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré. Lekeu: Violin Sonata in G major
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Sultry Ravel meets heated Lekeu in an outstanding collection of performancesMusicians: Alina Ibragimova (violin) Cédric Tiberghien (piano)Composer: Ravel, LekeuThis must count as one of the most satisfying surveys of Ravel’s complete violin music in the catalogue. Alina Ibragimova brings a ...
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ArticleScelsi: Manto, Coelocanth, Elegia per Ty, Three Studies, Xnoybis
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Gripping performances of the music of an Italian modernistMusicians: Vincent Royer (viola) Séverine Ballon (cello)Composer: ScelsiVolume nine of Mode’s Scelsi edition collects together the composer’s complete works for viola, in persuasive performances by contemporary music specialist Vincent Royer, a former Ensemble Modern ...
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ArticleSibelius: Violin Concerto. Edwards: Violin Concerto ‘Maninyas’
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Nordic cool meets the heat of the Australian desert in an unusual coupling of concertosMusicians: Adele Anthony (violin) Adelaide Symphony Orchestra/Arvo VolmerComposer: Sibelius, EdwardsAdele Anthony won the ABC competition back in 1984 aged just 13 playing the Sibelius Concerto, and now you ...
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ArticlePurcell: Twelve Sonatas in Three Parts
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A superlative account of some of the 17th-century master’s chamber musicMusicians: Retrospect TrioComposer: PurcellEven though more of his music is being performed and recorded than ever before, Purcell still hasn’t quite attained (at least in some circles) the level of recognition he ...
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Violinist Hilary Hahn launches competition for composers
Hilary Hahn has launched an online contest to choose the 27th piece for her new project, In 27 Pieces: The Hilary Hahn Encores. Twenty-six composers, including Krzysztof Penderecki, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Edgar Meyer and Nico Muhly, have already written encores for her. She will select the final work from blind submissions ...
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Sally Beamish writes concerto for fiddler Chris Stout
Shetland fiddler Chris Stout and harpist Catriona McKay will give the premiere of a new concerto by composer Sally Beamish in January. The performance with the Scottish Ensemble is one of the highlights of Celtic Connections 2012, Glasgow's annual festival of traditional, folk and world music. Other fiddlers performing include ...
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Pittsburgh Symphony bassist Anthony Bianco dies aged 94
Bassist Anthony Bianco died on 24 October at the age of 94. He was a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for 55 years, 26 of those as principal. Bianco played the tuba at high school and only took up the double bass after graduating in 1935. From 1937 ...
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Luthier completes 'Sherlock' quartet of instruments
A violin maker has made four instruments using wood from a tree that Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle used to climb as a boy. The 200-year-old sycamore stood in the garden of Conan Doyle's childhood home in Liberton, Edinburgh. The tree was felled two years ago because part of ...
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South Korean violinist wins Wieniawski Competition
South Korean violinist Soyoung Yoon won first prize at the International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in Pozna?, Poland. The 26-year-old, who has studied with Nam Yun Kim and Zakhar Bron, received €30,000. Second prize went to Miki Kobayashi, 21, from Japan. German violinist Stefan Tarara, 25, took third prize.
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Violinist says stalker left her living in fear
Violinist Siân Philipps claims that a stalker stole her identity online, sent emails in her name and began squatting in a room under her flat. Philipps, who made her debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra in 2004, said she was seeing an American man for five weeks before breaking off the ...
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Amphion Quartet and Sybarite5 win CAG Victor Elmaleh Competition
The Amphion Quartet and string quintet Sybarite5 have been named winners of the Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition in New York. Both ensembles receive a management contract with the Concert Artists Guild and a New York recital.
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Hallé orchestra told it can't call itself the UK's oldest
The Hallé Orchestra has been told it can no longer promote itself as Britain's longest-established permanent professional orchestra. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) delivered the ruling after investigating a claim that the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO) was older. The Hallé, which was formed in Manchester in 1858 by ...
