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ArticleBernstein: Serenade. Weill: Violin Concerto op.12
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Régis Pasquier (violin) Picardy Orchestra, Edmon Colomer (conductor)Composer: Bernstein, WeillScored for solo violin, string orchestra, harp and percussion, Bernstein’s five-movement Serenade is typically loaded with extra-musical meaning – in this case five Greek philosopher–poets as featured in Plato’s Symposium, who ...
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ArticleMendelssohn: String Quartets in A minor op.13 & in F minor op.80, Four Pieces op.81
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Elias QuartetComposer: Mendelssohn The Elias Quartet gives fully committed accounts of Mendelssohn’s two most impassioned and adventurous quartets, combining commendable musical intelligence with youthful élan, tenderness and fantasy. Following the poise of the A minor Quartet’s thoughtful, song-based ...
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ArticleGórecki: String Quartet no.3 ‘… songs are sung’
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Kronos Quartet Composer: GóreckiWhere do you go after writing a best-selling Symphony of Sorrowful Songs? Write a quartet of sorrowful songs, it appears. The subtitle is from a poem by the Russian Velimir Khlebnikov: ‘When people die/songs are ...
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ArticleMozetich: Affairs of the Heart. Langer: Platch. Schnittke: Concerto for Three. Bennett: Sometimes it Rains
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Roman Mints (violin) Maxim Rysanov (viola) Kristine Blaumane (cello) West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikel Toms (conductor)Composer: Mozetich, Langer, Schnittke, Bennett Affairs of the Heart is a 23-minute violin concerto by the Slovenian-born Canadian composer Marjan Mozetich, much inspired by ...
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ArticleInfluencias. Ravel: String Quartet. ToldrÁ : Vistes al mar. Turina: Oración del torero
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Casals QuartetComposer: Ravel, ToldrÁ , TurinaIt was as a violinist and founder of the Spanish Renacimiento Quartet that the composer Eduard Toldrà was best known. The title was symbolic, for Toldrà (1895–1962) was identified with the Renaixença (‘Renaissance’): a Modernist movement spurring ...
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ArticleThe Oregon String Quartet and all that Jazz. Works by Glinsky, Lee, Steinhardt, Baker & Gearhart
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Oregon Quartet, Diane Monroe (jazz violin)Composer: Glinsky, Lee, Steinhardt, Baker & Gearhart The Oregon Quartet’s mission here was to unearth recent jazz- and rock-oriented chamber music for the contemporary audience. The selection of pieces varies in scope as well ...
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ArticleAngele Dubeau - Solo. Works by Piazzolla, Ridout, Locatelli, Enescu, Glick, Brubeck & Campagnoli
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Angele Dubeau (violin) Blair Williams (narrator) Pierre Lebeau (narrator)Composer: Piazzolla, Ridout, Locatelli, Enescu, Glick, Brubeck & Campagnoli After 30 years of giving concerts, violinist Angele Dubeau, something of a household name in her native Canada, has compiled this eclectic programme ...
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ArticleViola VoilÁ . Works by Schubert, Drigo, Vieuxtemps, Cage, Stravinsky, Apituley, Fauré & Piazzolla
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Esther Apituley (viola) Rië Tanaka (piano) Eric Calmes (electric bass) Hans Dagelet (trumpet) Amsterdam Viola QuartetComposer: Schubert, Drigo, Vieuxtemps, Cage, Stravinsky, Apituley, Fauré & Piazzolla This is the second CD by the enterprising Esther Apituley, following Violent Viola (released in 2005). Now ...
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ArticleEttore Causa. Works by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Granados, Chopin, Saint-Saëns, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Schumann, Fauré, Mendelssohn & Ysaÿe
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Ettore Causa (viola) Ulrich Staerk (piano)Composer: Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Granados, Chopin, Saint-Saëns, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Schumann, Fauré, Mendelssohn & Ysaÿe The viola world may not be awash with compositions, but I feel cheated when the debut disc from an ...
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ArticleSchoenberg: Verklärte Nacht. Strauss: Metamorphosen, Sextet from Capriccio
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Concertante Chamber PlayersComposer: Schoenberg, StraussThis is an attractive disc from one of the most enterprising chamber groups to emerge from America over the past decade. The performances, if slightly mixed, feel fresh, committed and versatile, and the programme, bringing together three 20th-century ...
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ArticleRomance. Works by Glazunov, Saint-Saëns, Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, Lalo & Casals
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Han-Na Chang (cello) Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Antonio Pappano (conductor)Composer: Glazunov, Saint-Saëns, Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, Lalo & Casals After two weighty releases of mainstream repertoire by Shostakovich and Prokofiev, Korean–American star Han-Na Chang, now in ...
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ArticleBloch: Baal Shem Suite, Suite hébraïque, Suites nos.1 & 2 for solo violin. Ben-Haim: Violin Sonata in G minor, Berceuse sfradite, Improvisation and Dance
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Hagai Shaham (violin) Arnon Erez (piano)Composer: Bloch, Ben-Haim Bloch’s music invariably builds out of extreme contrasts: one minute quietly meditative, the next devotedly impassioned. He is not a composer particularly given to light touches or major-key frivolity ...
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Enescu: Complete works for violin and piano vol.1: Violin Sonata in A minor ‘Torso’, Violin Sonata no. 2 in F minor, Impressions d’enfance op.28
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Remus Azoitei (violin) Eduard Stan (piano) Composer: EnescuEnescu’s three sonatas are high-water marks of turn-of-the-20th-century violin literature, not least because Enescu, friend to Ysaÿe and teacher of Menuhin, was one of the finest virtuosos of his day, acclaimed in Vienna and ...
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ArticleHandel: Recorder Sonatas op.1 nos.2, 4, 7, 9 & 11, Sonata in B flat major HWV377 (transcr. Gibley)
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Tatty Theo (cello) Carolyn Gibley (harpsichord) Composer: HandelTaking as her precedent the arrangements made by Baroque composers to maximise income from their compositions, Carolyn Gibley has transcribed six of Handel’s sonatas for recorder and continuo to form cello ...
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ArticleKarlowicz: Violin Concerto in A major op.8. Szymanowski: Violin Concerto no.1
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Piotr Plawner (violin) Zielona Góra Philharmonic Orchestra, Czeslaw Grabowski (conductor)Composer: Karlowicz, SzymanowskiWhile many musicians were making the pilgrimage to Paris in the early 1900s, Szymanowski studied the folk music of his native Polish Tatra mountains, enthusing that ‘each man must go to ...
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ArticleBach: Viola da gamba Sonatas BWV1027–29, Chaconne
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Yuko Inoue (viola) Kathron Sturrock (piano)Composer: BachBach’s three sonatas for viola da gamba sit rather well on the viola, and they are regularly used as teaching material. However, there hasn’t been a recording of the whole set on the viola ...
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ArticleBach: Violin Concertos in A minor BWV1041 & in E major BWV1042, Concerto for violin and oboe in C minor BWV1060, Concerto for two violins in D minor BWV1043
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Richard Tognetti (violin/director) Helena Rathbone (violin) Diana Doherty (oboe) Australian Chamber OrchestraComposer: Bach This exhilarating programme took me back to the era of London power cuts: during an English Chamber Orchestra concert, Michael Schneider had to ...
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ArticleStrauss: Metamorphosen, Piano Quartet in C minor op.13, Prelude to Capriccio
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Nash EnsembleComposer: Strauss When the 21-year-old Richard Strauss was composing his Piano Quartet he was very much in the thrall of Brahms, and had the outcome carried his predecessor’s name it could well have formed part of the standard ...
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ArticleChopin: Cello Sonata in G minor op.65, Polonaise brillante op.3. Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor op.19, Vocalise
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Alexander Kniazev (cello) Nikolai Lugansky (piano)Composer: Chopin, Rachmaninoff Alexander Kniazev and Nikolai Lugansky, both Moscow Conservatoire-trained, really grab these works by the jugular. This is music in the raw: red-blooded stuff, with no inhibitions. Rachmaninoff’s Sonata is the better ...
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ArticleRomantic Cello Concertos vol.2. Volkmann: Cello Concerto in A Minor. Gernsheim: Cello Concerto in E Minor. Dietrich: Cello Concerto in G minor. Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Alban Gerhardt (cello) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu (conductor)Composer: Volkmann, Gernsheim, Dietrich, SchumannSchumann’s Cello Concerto proves significantly more compelling than the other works featured alongside it in this release. For example, although the compositional fluency and orchestration of Albert Dietrich (1829–1908) ...
