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Neglected chamber pieces by UK composers to be performed again
Twelve overlooked chamber works by British composers have been chosen to receive performances as part of the Encore project by the Royal Philharmonic Society and BBC Radio 3. The twelve works were chosen from nearly 70 pieces nominated by artists, publishers and programmers. The pieces selected include Anthony Payne's ...
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Baroque ensemble uses crowd-funding to finance CD
An award-winning period instrument orchestra is using crowd-funding website WeDidThis to drum up financing for a new CD. The International Baroque Players is looking to raise £2,500 to fund the recording, which will feature violin concertos by Telemann and Heinichen alongside an unrecorded sonata for orchestra by Handel and a ...
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ArticleRubbra: String Quartets no.1 in F minor op.35, no.3 op.112 & no.4 op.150
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Vindication for an under-appreciated English composerMusicians: Maggini QuartetComposer: RubbraThis latest instalment in the Maggini Quartet’s survey of British music for Naxos completes the Rubbra set: the players have already recorded the Second Quartet on a disc that also includes his First Piano ...
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ArticlePiston: String Quartets nos.1, 3 & 5
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Confident performances of string quartets from an American neo-ClassicistMusicians: Harlem QuartetComposer: PistonBy comparison with Copland’s ‘voice of America’ style and Barber’s post-Romantic impulses, Walter Piston was more of a traditionalist, one whose absorption of Stravinsky, Bartók and Hindemith into a highly individual ...
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ArticleRaphael: Violin Concerto no.2 op.87, Solo Violin Sonata op.46 no.2, Duos op.47 nos.1, 2 & 6, Violin Sonatas op.12 no.1 & no.3 op.43, Sonatina op.52, Jabonah op.66a, Sonata for violin & organ op.36
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A concerto and chamber music from a forgotten figure of 20th-century German musicMusicians: Christine Raphael (violin) Max Rostal (violin/viola) Ulf Rodenhäuser (clarinet) Rainer Gepp, Ernst Gröschel (piano) Wolfgang Stockmeier (organ) Northwest German Philharmonic/Jorge RotterComposer: RaphaelGünter Raphael (1903–60) was a German composer and ...
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ArticleBeamish: Violin Concerto, Callisto, Symphony no.1
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: An affecting, war-ravaged violin concerto played by its dedicateeMusicians: Anthony Marwood (violin) Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Martyn BrabbinsComposer: BeamishSally Beamish’s 1994 Violin Concerto was written for Anthony Marwood. At his suggestion, it takes Erich Maria Remarque’s novel of the First World War, All ...
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ArticleBach: Reconstructions and Transcriptions for Strings: Orchestral Suite BWV1067, Fugue in G minor BWV539/1001, Concerto in E minor BWV1053/169/49, Goldberg Variations BWV988 (selection)
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Sensuous performances of Bach arranged for string ensembleMusicians: Furor Musicus/Antoinette Lohmann (viola)Composer: BachThis is period instrument performance at its most warmly engaging and least didactic. Beautifully recorded in an ecclesiastical setting, Bach’s contrapuntal miracles create the strange impression of musical weightlessness as ...
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ArticleMozart: String Quartets in C major K157, in B flat major K458 ‘Hunt’ & in B flat major K589
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Description: First-rate accounts of three varied Mozart quartetsMusicians: Jerusalem QuartetComposer: MozartFor this sublime disc the Jerusalem Quartet chooses one ‘Italian’ work, one ‘Haydn’ and one ‘Prussian’. The playing in the three-movement early piece is alert and very beautiful: the wistful Andante ...
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ArticleD'Erlanger: Violin Concerto in D minor op.17, Poème in D major. Cliffe: Violin Concerto in D minor
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Mellifluous accounts of two rare Romantic violin concertos in Hyperion’s ongoing seriesMusicians: Philippe Graffin (violin) BBC National Orchestra of Wales/David Lloyd-JonesComposer: D'Erlanger, CliffeI can’t imagine I’m alone in having never heard a note of Frédéric d’Erlanger (1868–1943) or Frederic Cliffe ...
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ArticleThe Trio Sonata in 18th-Century England. Works by Ravenscroft, Handel, Avison, Boyce, Arne, Abel & Erskine
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Little-known composers come to life on a disc of English trio sonatasMusicians: London BaroqueComposer: Ravenscroft, Handel, Avison, Boyce, Arne, Abel & Erskine This latest addition to London Baroque’s growing discography of English and European trio sonatas is a survey of both a ...
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ArticleInsects and Paper Airplanes l. Dillon: String Quartets no.2 (Flight), no.3 (Air) & no.4 (The Infinite Space), What Happened
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Rock music and gliding are among the inspirations behind a series of string quartetsMusicians: Daedalus Quartet, Benjamin Hochman (piano)Composer: DillonIt’s a rare achievement to combine rigorous intellectualism with wit, spontaneity and fun, but the chamber works by US composer Lawrence Dillon (currently ...
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ArticleSchumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major op.47, Fantasiestücke op.88, Liederkreis op.24
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A mixed Schumann concert that lacks songfulness and fantasyMusicians: London Bridge Ensemble, Ivan Ludlow (baritone)Composer: SchumannAfter a suitably mysterious opening, the players move pleasantly into the main tempo of the Piano Quartet’s Allegro; but the live recording, before a blessedly quiet audience, ...
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Emerson Quartet signs recording contract with Sony after 24 years with DG
The Emerson Quartet has signed an exclusive recording contract with Sony Classical. The new deal brings to an end the ensemble's long relationship with Deutsche Grammophon, with whom the quartet has recorded more than 30 discs since 1987. The Emersons' first recording for Sony, set for release this November, ...
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ArticleSchoenberg: String Quartets no.3 op.30 & no.4 op.37, Phantasy op.47
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Exemplary performances of Schoenberg’s later music for stringsMusicians: Fred Sherry Quartet, Rolf Schulte (violin) Christopher Oldfather (piano)Composer: Schoenberg These recordings of Schoenberg’s String Quartets nos.3 and 4 are surely close to exemplary. Phrasing is so beautifully shaped, and the ...
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ArticleMendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor op.64. Tchaikovsky: Pezzo elegiaco from Piano Trio in A minor op.50
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A missed opportunity to celebrate Isaac Stern’s role in saving Carnegie HallMusicians: Isaac Stern (violin) Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) Vladimir Horowitz (piano) Israel Philharmonic Orchestra/Leonard BernsteinComposer: Mendelssohn, TchaikovskyOf course Isaac Stern’s 90th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his Carnegie Hall rescue should ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Violin Concerto in D major op.61, Symphony no.7 in A major op.92
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A fresh approach to Beethoven’s Violin Concerto that includes new cadenzasMusicians: David Grimal (violin/director) Les DissonancesComposer: BeethovenFaced with such an enormous choice of recordings of the Beethoven concerto, this one at least has a unique selling point in new cadenzas composed for ...
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ArticleThe Unknown Beethoven. Beethoven: Cello Sonata in E flat major op.64 (arr. Kleinheinz?), works for mandolin and piano (arr. Berger)
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A sixth Beethoven cello sonata earns its place in the repertoire Musicians: Julius Berger (cello) José Gallardo (piano)Composer: Beethoven‘Unknown’ doesn’t really apply to the Sonata op.64, whose six movements are immediately familiar as the String Trio op.3. As in Beethoven’s other cello ...
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ArticleStachowski: Concerto for cello and string orchestra, Recitativo e la preghiera, Adagio ricordamente
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Bold and colourful concertante works for cello from PolandMusicians: Dorota Imielowska (cello) Beethoven Academy Orchestra/Piotr SulkowskiComposer: StachowskiThe cello was central to the later works of Marek Stachowski (1936–2004). The Polish composer apparently felt a strong pull to the instrument’s sound when accompanying ...
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ArticleViolin and Electronics. Works by Mobberley, First, Levick, Aikman, Browning, Felice & Long
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Mixed results from a collection of music music for solo violin and electronicsMusicians: Davis Brooks (violin)Composer: Mobberley, First, Levick, Aikman, Browning, Felice & LongDavis Brooks is a violin professor at Butler University in Indianapolis and associate concertmaster of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, ...
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Three arrested over stolen Stradivari violin
Police have arrested and charged a 30-year-old man and two boys aged 16 and 14 in connection with the theft of a Stradivari violin in London. The instrument, which is valued at £1.2m, was stolen from violinist Min-Jin Kym in a sandwich bar at Euston Station on 29 November. Two ...
