All Bach articles – Page 10
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ArticleBach: Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas BWV1001–6
The Strad Issue: January 2017Description: Chung returns with a new recording of the solo violin's 'old testament'Musicians: Kyung Wha Chung (violin)Composer: BachCatalogue number: WARNER CLASSICS 9029 59441-6 (2 CDs) There are few sterner tests for a recording comeback than a complete set of solo Bach. Kyung Wha ...
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ArticleThe Cellist of Venice. A story by Kim Maerkl, incorporating Bach: Cello Suites (selections)
The Strad Issue: December 2016Description: Stories for children interspersed with fine Bach performancesMusicians: Daniel Müller–Schott (cello) Thomas Hampson (narration)Composer: Bach, Kim MaerklCatalogue number: ATLANTIC CROSSING ACR 0010 Kim Maerkl’s tale, set in Venice in 1725, begins at Vivaldi’s Ospedale della PietÁ for girls. Gondolas and the ...
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ReviewBach: The Art of Fugue BWV1080
The Strad Issue: October 2016 Description: Intimacy and ingenuity in Bach’s unfinished book of contrapuntal studies Musicians: Rachel Podger (violin), Brecon Baroque Composer: Bach Catalogue number: CHANNEL CLASSICS CCSSA 38316 (SACD) Bach specified ...
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ArticleViolinist Kyung Wha Chung plays Bach
Kyung Wha Chung performs Bach's Chaconne in the above video. The violinist speaks in The Strad's October 2016 issue about her long-awaited recording of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas, fifty years after she began playing the works.Read: 6 opinions on performance and interpretation by violinist Kyung Wha Chung
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Blogs'Bach should be played with vibrato,' says violinist Pinchas Zukerman
The veteran violinist, violist, conductor and pedagogue is interviewed in The Strad's September 2016 issue
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ReviewBach: Solo Violin Sonatas BWV1001, BWV1003 and BWV1005
The Strad Issue: September 2016 Description: Seiler tackles the three sonatas to complete her solo Bach survey Musicians: Midori Seiler (violin) Composer: Bach Catalogue number: BERLIN CLASSICS 0300721BC These reverberant, well-engineered recordings complete ...
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ReviewTestament. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin BWV1001–6
The Strad Issue: August 2016 Description: Another returnee to the Sonatas and Partitas offers a more personal voice Musicians: Rachel Barton Pine Composer: Bach Catalogue number: AVIE AV 2360 (2 CDs) The G ...
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ReviewBach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin BWV1001–6
The Strad Issue: August 2016 Description: Period inflexions in Romantic style as Kaplan returns to solo Bach Musicians: Mark Kaplan Composer: Bach Catalogue number: BRIDGE 9460 (2 CDs) Mark Kaplan’s second recording of ...
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ArticleViolinist Maxim Vengerov on making one violin sound like three in Bach
I want to hear two or three violinists at one time'Maxim Vengerov gives a violin masterclass on the Fugue of Bach's Sonata No.1, recorded at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The student is Nasrin Rashidova.The full 45-minute video is available to buy as a download or ...
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ArticleMischa Maisky plays Bach Cello Suite No.1 in G
Mischa Maisky performs the Bach Cello Suite No.1 in G.Watch: Cellist Mischa Maisky performs Rachmaninov’s VocaliseWatch: Mischa Maisky performs Haydn’s Cello Concerto no.1Read: Cellist Mischa Maisky on studying with Piatigorsky and Rostropovich
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ReviewBach: Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin BWV1001–6 (transc. Luolajan-Mikkola)
The Strad Issue: June 2016 Description: Luolajan-Mikkola offers the lowdown on the solo violin works Musicians: Markku Luolajan-Mikkola (Baroque cello) Composer: Bach If the six Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin are, in Enescu’s words, ‘the ...
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ArticleYehudi Menuhin performs Bach at the age of 69
Yehudi Menuhin performs the Prelude from Bach's Solo Violin Partita no.3 in 1985 at the age of 69. The Strad's May 2016 issue, celebrating the life of Yehudi Menuhin, is out now - download on desktop computer or through The Strad App.
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ArticleViolinist Frank Peter Zimmermann performs Bach's Chaconne
Frank Peter Zimmermann talks in The Strad's April 2016 issue about revisiting the Mozart Violin Concertos on disc, 20 years after his breakthrough recording - download on desktop computer or buy in print Read The Strad’s 7 ways to play perfect chords and see how other great violinists tackled the ...
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FocusBach should only be played as an encore in special circumstances, says violinist Arabella Steinbacher
The Strad asks six international solo violinists what the encore tradition means to them, and to reveal their personal favourites
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ReviewHuberman Festival 1982. Bach: Double Concerto in D minor BWV1043. Mozart: Sinfonia concertante in E flat major K364. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Concerto grosso in B minor op.3 no.10
The Strad Issue: April 2016Description: Star string players gather to celebrate Huberman’s 100thMusicians: Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Shlomo Mintz, Ida Haendel, Ivry Gitlis (violins) Pinchas Zukerman (violin/viola) Israel Philharmonic Orchestra/Zubin MehtaComposer: Bach; Mozart; VivaldiIn December 1982, to mark the centenary of the Israel Philharmonic’s founder Bronislaw Huberman, ...
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ReviewBach: Cello Suites vol.2: no.2 in D minor BWV1008, no.5 in C minor BWV1011, no.6 in D major BWV1012
The Strad Issue: April 2016Description: Eijlander completes his survey of Bach’s Cello SuitesMusicians: Joachim Eijlander (cello)Composer: BachBach’s Suites tower monumentally over the cello repertoire and so beg for a multifaceted delivery. They need to strike the listener directly, with simplicity and spontaneity that nod to the pulse ...
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ArticleHow effective is a modern violin and Baroque bow in period performance?
Dr Tomas Cotik, violin soloist, Amernet String Quartet member and professor at the University of Miami, performs the Largo from Bach's Violin Sonata no.3 on his modern violin and a Baroque bow. He describes his decision to use this combination for the recording below:'I usually play a modern ...
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ReviewBach: Sonata no.2 in A minor BWV1003; Partitas: no.2 in D minor BWV1004; no.3 in E major BWV1006; Largo (from Sonata no.3 in C major BWV1005); The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus XIV
The Strad Issue: March 2016Description: Private Bach recordings by a period performance pioneerMusicians: Eduard Melkus (violin)Composer: BachWhat a curious disc. From a label without a catalogue comes a transfer of three solo works, recorded live in August 1975, on what sounds like a C90 cassette in a ...
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ReviewBach: Cello Suites Vol.1; no.1 BWV1007, no.3 BWV1009, no.4 BWV1010
The Strad Issue: February 2016Description: A natural approach pays dividends in three of Bach’s Cello SuitesMusicians: Joachim Eijlander (cello)Composer: BachOh no, was my initial reaction on encountering this disc – not another version of the Bach Suites! But when I began listening to the natural and unaffected ...
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ReviewCello Concertos, Sonatas & Suites. Works by Bach, Beethoven, Boccherini, Brahms, Dvorák, Kabalevsky, Milhaud and Schumann
The Strad Issue: January 2016Description: Collected performances by a legendary Canadian cellistMusicians: Zara Nelsova (cello) Artur Balsam, Lothar Broddack (pianos) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Georg Ludwig Jochum, Gerd AlbrechtComposer: Bach, Beethoven, Boccherini, Brahms, Dvorák, Kabalevsky, Milhaud, SchumannThe greatest cellist to come out of the Americas (see ‘Great Cellists’, ...