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The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Ben Powell (violin) Cedric Hanriot (piano) Richard Greenblatt (vibes) Jon Sosin (guitar) Aaron Darrell, David Hollender (double bass) Devin Drebka (drums) Composer: VariousCheltenham-born Ben Powell is still a student in jazz composition at Berklee College. This assured debut recording, produced from a ...
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ArticleSchumann: Soiréestücke op.73, Adagio and Allegro op.70, Violin Sonata no.3 in A minor (arr. Isserlis), Abendlied op.85 no.12 (arr. Joachim), Three Romances op.94, Fünf Stücke im Volkston op.102
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Steven Isserlis (cello) Dénes Várjon (piano)Composer: SchumannIsserlis, a self-confessed ‘Schumann nut’, here revisits much of the repertoire he included with his 1997 Schumann Concerto recording for BMG, with a few additions and a new pianist. He also has the advantage of not ...
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ArticleMichi: 9 Death Haiku
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Kono Michi (violin/singer) Satoshi Takeishi (percussion)Composer: Michi Kono Michi is a New York-based concert violinist and erstwhile Silk Road Ensemble collaborator, and has come up with this intriguing and exquisitely beautiful setting of Japanese deathbed haikus.If you listen to this ...
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ArticleDubois: Violin Sonata in A major, Cello Sonata in D major, Ballade, Nocturne, Mélodie, Andante appassionato, Andante cantabile, Méditation, Scherzetto, Cavatine
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Anne Robert (violin) Benoît Loiselle (cello) Stéphane Lemelin (piano)Composer: Dubois Generously timed (a shade over 81 minutes), imposingly engineered and played with devoted spontaneity, this is a captivating recital that turns out to be rather more than the sum ...
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ArticleMusic from Down Under. Sculthorpe: Baltimore Songlines. Conyngham: Playground. Knehans: rive. Mills: Four Miniatures. Marshall: Three Aspects of Spring
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Verdehr Trio Composer: Sculthorpe, Conyngham, Knehans, Mills, MarshallMost of these works, all commissioned by or for the Verdehr clarinet trio, are from this century – only Richard Mills’s Four Miniatures date from the last millennium – but ...
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ArticleBoccherini: String Trio in D major op.14 no.4, String Quartet in C minor op.41 no.1, String Quintet in C minor op.45 no.1, String Sextet in F minor op.23
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Europa Galante Composer: BoccheriniThe musicians of Europa Galante here offer strongly projected accounts of a cross-section of Boccherini’s chamber music for four different combinations of stringed instruments. Unsurprisingly, principal violinist Fabio Biondi and first cellist Maurizio Naddeo are the major ...
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ArticleDancla: Petite école de la mélodie op.123. Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonata no.1 in D minor op.75. Massenet: Méditation from ‘Thaïs’
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Guido Rimonda (violin) Cristina Canziani (piano)Composer: Dancla, Saint-Saëns, MassenetListening even blindfolded you would immediately identify Guido Rimonda as a player in the Italian tradition. His lithe, relatively lightweight, cantabile, seamlessly pure sound, sustained by a fast, narrow vibrato is straight out of ...
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ArticleArthur Butterworth: Viola Concerto op.82, Symphonies no.1 op.15* & no.4 op.72, plus interview feature
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola) Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Arthur Butterworth, Hallé Orchestra/John Barbirolli* Composer: Arthur ButterworthAs so many works of Mancunian composer Arthur Butterworth, the Viola Concerto was several years in the making before its premiere in 1993. Butterworth, who as a student ...
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ArticleDuo Virtuoso. Mozart: Duo in G major K423. Boccherini: Allegretto spiritoso from Sonata in D major HAYDN (attrib.) Poco adagio from Duo in D major Hob.VI:D1. Beethoven: Duo in C major WoO 27. Kodály:
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Elaris DuoComposer: Mozart, Boccherini, Haydn (attrib.), Beethoven, Halvorsen, KodályIn the 18th and early 19th centuries music for instrumental duos grew in popularity, much of it composed because a keyboard remained the domain of the wealthy. To maximise the sale of sheet music ...
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ArticlePaganini: 24 Caprices for solo violin op.1
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Tanja Becker-Bender (violin)Composer: PaganiniThe young German violinist Tanja Becker-Bender, who has just been touring Britain, thoroughly deserves the chance to record these cornerstones of the repertoire. She is captured quite close-up in a Stuttgart chapel – you hear intakes of breath – ...
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ArticleRode: Violin Concertos no.7 in A minor op.9, no.10 in B minor op.19 & no.13 in F sharp minor/A major op.posth.
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Friedemann Eichhorn (violin) South West German Radio Orchestra, Kaiserslautern/Nicolás Pasquet Composer: RodePierre Rode (1774–1830) is chiefly remembered as one of the trio of Viotti disciples who founded the violin department of the Paris Conservatoire. His violin concertos owe a considerable ...
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ArticleHallgrímsson: Cello Concerto op.30, Herma op.17
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Truls Mørk (cello) Scottish Chamber Orchestra/John StorgŠrdsComposer: Hallgrímsson This disc is a real find – some startlingly fresh music in exceptional performances, and a rich, crystal-clear recording. Icelander Hafliði Hallgrímsson (b.1941) was principal cellist of the Scottish Chamber ...
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ArticleBusoni: Violin Sonata no.2 in E minor op.36a. Enescu: Violin Sonata no.3 op.25 ‘dans le caractère populaire roumain’
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Nurit Stark (violin) Cédric Pescia (piano) Composer: Busoni, EnescuThis is an interesting disc debut for an Israeli violinist and French–Swiss pianist who form a regular duo and play in the Esart Trio. They appear to have held two public recording sessions ...
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ArticleHaydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ op.51
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Leipzig Quartet Composer: HaydnHaydn’s seven sober and imposingly spiritual ‘sonatas’, framed by a solemn introduction and dramatic epilogue, pose considerable interpretative problems, not least one of sustaining interest throughout. Haydn himself recognised these difficulties but persevered to fulfil the ...
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ArticleCantabile. Arrangements of opera arias and songs by Gounod, Offenbach, Bizet, Delibes, Tchaikovsky, Thomas, Canteloube, Hahn, Faure, Lopez & Rossini*
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Sol Gabetta (cello) Mihaela Ursuleasa (piano)* Prague Philharmonic Orchestra/Charles Olivieri-MunroeComposer: Gounod, Offenbach, Bizet, Delibes, Tchaikovsky, Thomas, Canteloube, Hahn, Faure, Lopez & Rossini*‘She looks like a model,’ was my nine-year-old son’s immediate comment on seeing the cover picture of Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta. ...
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ArticleFeminissimo! Women Playing Music By Women. Works by Warshauer, Bacewicz, Price, Lund, Risher, Diemer, Viardot-Garcia, Kapralova, Fabregas
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Laura Kobayashi (violin) Susan Keith Gray (piano)Composer: Warshauer, Bacewicz, Price, Lund, Risher, Diemer, Viardot-Garcia, Kapralova, Fabregas Despite the rather earnest title, this disc does the valuable job of introducing a handful of female composers of various nationalities whose voices are rarely ...
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ArticlePartners in Time. Works by Kreisler, Bach, Mozart, Grieg, Tchaikovsky & Bartók
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Tasmin Little (violin) John Lenehan (piano)Composer: Kreisler, Bach, Mozart, Grieg, Tchaikovsky & Bartók Last year Tasmin Little’s website offered a free download of her recital The Naked Violin, with the objective of reaching out to those who hardly ever listen to ...
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ArticlePourquoi, Madame? Works by George Boulanger, Dinicu, Schmitz, Schmidseder, Nedbal, Monti, Lehár, Edelmann, Rezsö, Knümann & Trad.
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Prima Carezza Composer: George Boulanger, Dinicu, Schmitz, Schmidseder, Nedbal, Monti, Lehár, Edelmann, Rezsö, Knümann & Trad.Prima Carezza, an ensemble of two violins and accordion, here revisits the salon world of the early 20th century and its musical blend of Viennese poise ...
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ArticleBritten: Double Concerto for Violin & Viola, Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Les illuminations
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Pieter Schoeman (violin) Alexander Zemtsov (viola) Sally Matthews (soprano) London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir JurowskiComposer: Britten Britten’s Double Concerto was written in 1932, immediately before his acknowledged op.1, the Sinfonietta, but remained unheard until as recently as 1997. Pieter Schoeman and Alexander ...
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ArticleShostakovich: Cello Concertos no.1 op.107 & no.2 op.126
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Dimitri Maslennikov (cello) NDR Symphony Orchestra/Christoph EschenbachComposer: Shostakovich Shostakovich would surely have been gratified with the increasing prominence being given to his Second Cello Concerto, at least in terms of recording releases. It’s certainly a testing work, presenting the soloist ...
