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ArticleIda Haendel – Historical Return to Chelm. Bach: Chaconne from Partita no.2, etc. Tartini: Sonata ‘The Devil’s Trill’. Wieniawski: Légende, Polonaise de concert. Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen. Tchaikovsky:
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Ida Haendel (violin) Capella Cracoviensis, Stanislaw Galonski (conductor)Composer: Bach, Tartini, Wieniawski, Sarasate, Tchaikovsky, BruchLast year Ida Haendel made an emotional return to perform in the Polish town of Chelm, where she had been born 83 years before. She had begun playing the ...
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ArticleMozart: Violin Concertos no.2 in D major K211 & no.4 in D major K218, Sinfonia concertante in E flat major K364
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Maxim Vengerov (violin/director) Lawrence Power (viola) UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra Composer: MozartThis disc is the result of a unique collaboration between Maxim Vengerov and the orchestra involving a period of intensive study on a kibbutz in Israel. ...
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ArticleSzymanowski: Violin Sonata in D minor op.9. Bacewicz: Violin Sonata no.4. Lutoslawski: Partita
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Patrycja Piekutowska (violin) Beata Bilinska (piano) Composer: Szymanowski, Bacewicz, LutoslawskiThis refined recording, uniting three of the landmark works to emerge from Poland in the last century, provides a perfect showcase for two exciting young Polish performers. This is an ...
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ArticleBach's Goldberg Variations BWV988 (arr. Sitkovetsky)
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Julian Rachlin (violin) Nobuko Imai (viola) Mischa Maisky (cello)Composer: BachDmitry Sitkovetsky’s transcription of Bach’s Goldberg Variations has the immediate advantage of using the differing timbres of three stringed instruments to highlight the themes, harmonies and contrapuntal strands in a way ...
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ArticleAndrea Amati Charles IX Violin. Matteis: Fantasia, Passaggio rotto, Movimento incognito. Biber: Passacaglia
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Simon Standage (violin)Composer: Matteis, Biber The focus here is more on a rare Andrea Amati violin housed in the Tullie House Museum, Carlisle, than the music or its interpretation. Nevertheless, the clarity of Simon Standage’s mellow, expressive accounts ...
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ArticleAppassionata. Works by Williams, Franck, Vivaldi, Gershwin, Bandolin, Kabalevsky, Morricone, Saint-Saëns, Brahms, Piazzolla, Mamiya, Yanzi, Meyer, Mendelssohn & Tchaikovsky
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Yo-Yo Ma (cello) etcComposer: Williams, Franck, Vivaldi, Gershwin, Bandolin, Kabalevsky, Morricone, Saint-Saëns, Brahms, Piazzolla, Mamiya, Yanzi, Meyer, Mendelssohn & TchaikovskyI’m not an ardent advocate of compilations, by contrast with the marketing moguls. Yet despite the format’s fragmentary nature, the autobiographical vein that ...
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ArticleMartinu: Rhapsody-Concerto. Hindemith: Trauermusik. Bartók: Viola Concerto
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Vladimír Buka? (viola) Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimír Válek (conductor)Composer: Martinu, Hindemith, Bartók Vladimír Buka? is the viola player of the prestigious Talich Quartet and a teacher at the Hochschule für Musik, Dresden. With this recording he presents his ...
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ArticleBasquiat Strings
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Emma Smith (violin) Vicky Fifield (violin) Jenny May-Logan (viola) Nell Catchpole (viola) Ben Davis (cello) Richard Pryce (double bass) Seb Rochford (drums)Composer: Various Basquiat Strings is the brainchild of cellist Ben Davis, and part of the cutting-edge F-ire ...
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ArticleBiber: The Mystery Sonatas
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Maya Homburger (violin) Camerata KilkennyComposer: Biber Biber’s Mystery Sonatas divide into three cycles of five according to mood and extra-musical inspiration, vividly portraying events in Christ’s life. Maya Homburger offers stylish and imaginative accounts, demonstrating commendable technical bravura and ...
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ArticleParis. Poulenc: Violin Sonata. Stravinsky: Suite italienne, Chanson russe, Tango, Pastorale. Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toit
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Maya Koch (violin) Julian Milford (piano)Composer: Poulenc, Stravinsky, MilhaudSumptuously engineered and glowingly played, this recital simply oozes class. The Poulenc Sonata (unaccountably neglected by comparison with its wind-instrument cousins) is often played very cool as though any hint of espressivo indulgence would ...
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ArticleCerha: Violin Concerto, Fasce*
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Ernst Kovacic (violin) Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bertrand de Billy (conductor), Johannes Kalitzke (conductor)*Composer: Cerha Friedrich Cerha is best known among Anglophones for his completion of Berg’s Lulu, but his own work reveals a thoughtful engagement with the Austro–German ...
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ArticleBrahms: String Quartet no.2 in A minor op.51 no.2. Janácek: String Quartet no.2 ‘Intimate Letters’
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Heine QuartetComposer: Brahms, Janácek This unusual pairing of quartets is partly explained in the accompanying notes by their common communication to friends: Brahms to Joachim and Jana?c ?ek to his adored Kamila Sto?sslova?. It is an effective ...
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ArticleKhachaturian: Violin Concerto. Shostakovich: Violin Concerto no.1
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Catherine Manoukian (violin) Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Eduard Topehjan (conductor) Composer: Khachaturian, ShostakovichThis uplifting performance of Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto, one of the undoubted masterpieces of the 20th-century repertoire, comes from musicians associated with the composer’s homeland.The Armenian orchestra’s ...
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ArticleMozart: Violin Concertos nos.1–5, Rondos in B flat major K269 & C major K373, Adagio in E major K261
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Johannes Leertouwer (violin/director) La Borea AmsterdamComposer: Mozart Johannes Leertouwer makes much of the fact that his lightly built 1619 Amati comes from the period that Mozart would have had in mind when exploring the contrasts possible by use of the violin’s different ...
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ArticleVanhal: Violin Concertos in G major (WIIb:G3), in G major (WIIb:G1) and in B flat major (WIIb:Bb1)
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Takako Nishizaki (violin) Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Helmut Müller-Brühl (conductor)Composer: Vanhal Takako Nishizaki makes a persuasive case for these three of Vanhal’s 15 or so violin concertos, many of which achieved considerable popularity in the 1760s and 1770s. Mozart, ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Cello Sonatas vol.1: Sonatas in F major op.5 no.1, in G minor op.5 no.2 & in A major op. 69
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Zuill Bailey (cello) Simone Dinnerstein (piano)Composer: Beethoven Once one is listening to accomplished performers there is a series of ever finer lines which distinguish the truly great recordings from the rest of the field. Following with the score, it ...
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ArticleMozart: String Quartet in G major K387. Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor D703. Debussy: String Quartet op.10. Wolf: Italian Serenade
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Formosa QuartetComposer: Mozart, Schubert, Debussy, Wolf It is unsurprising that the members of the Formosa Quartet, winners of the London International String Quartet Competition last year, were also awarded that competition’s Amadeus Prize for the best Mozart performance. ...
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ArticleSchumann: Adagio and Allegro in A flat major op.70, Fantasiestücke op.73, Fünf Stücke im Volkston op.102, Märchenbilder op.113 (arr. Piatti). Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Antonio Meneses (cello) Gérard Wyss (piano)Composer: Schumann, Schubert Antonio Meneses brings a tender beauty almost burdened with sadness to the disc’s opening Schumann Adagio, but this is soon swept aside with the passionate outburst that launches the ensuing Allegro. ...
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ArticleDvorák: String Quartet no.13 in G major op.106. Janácek: String Quartet no.2 ‘Intimate Letters’
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Artemis QuartetComposer: Dvorák, JanácekThis a stirring performance of the G major Quartet, composed in 1895 to celebrate Dvo?ák’s return to Prague from the United States. What impresses most about the Artemis Quartet’s energised approach is its consistency: throughout, its reading is gritty ...
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ArticleDall'Abaco: 11 Caprices for cello
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Kristin von der Goltz (cello)Composer: Dall'AbacoIf making a CD disseminates an all-but-unknown composer to a wider public, and at the same time is so persuasive that you want to get a copy of the music for yourself, it’s a success ...
