All Brahms articles – Page 3
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ArticleBrahms: String Quartet no.3 in B flat major op.67; Three Songs, Schoenberg: String Quartet no.2 in F sharp minor op.10
The Strad Issue: February 2017 Description: The Kuss players continue to make ear-opening musical juxtapositions Musicians: Mojca Erdmann (soprano), Kuss Quartet Composer: Brahms, Schoenberg Catalogue number: ONYX 4166 The Kuss Quartet’s first disc for Onyx paired Schubert and Berg. This new ...
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Brahms: Cello Sonata no.2 in F major; Violin Sonata no.2 in A major op.100 (arr.Wispelwey), Schubert: Violin Sonata in A major D574 (arr.Wispelwey)
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: February 2017 Description: Wispelwey adopts and adapts Brahms and Schubert for the cello Musicians: Pieter Wispelwey (cello) Paolo Giacometti (piano) Composer: Brahms, Schubert Catalogue number: EVIL PENGUIN EPRC 0022 Assigning works written for one ...
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Brahms: Cello Sonatas: no.1 in E minor op 38; no.2 in F major op.99, Four Serious Songs op.121 (transc. Shafran/Baillie)
The Strad Issue: October 2016 Description: A Brahmsian 60th-birthday present for cellist Alexander Baillie Musicians: Alexander Baillie (cello), John Thwaites (piano) Composer: Brahms Catalogue number: SOMM SOMMCD 0158 Using three different pianos offers ...
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Kyung Wha Chung performs Brahms Violin Concerto at Verbier Festival 2016
Kyung Wha Chung performs Brahms's Violin Concerto with the Verbier Festival Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit on 22 July 2016. The full performance can be watched at Medici.tv . Read: Violinist Kyung Wha Chung postpones 2016 UK tour due to finger injury Read: 6 opinions ...
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Brahms: Complete Piano Trios; ‘Double’ Concerto in A minor op.102
The Strad Issue: September 2016 Description: Brahms’s three piano trios and the concerto for the same soloists Musicians: Hagai Shaham (violin) Raphael Wallfisch (cello) Arnon Erez (piano) Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie/Daniel Raiskin Composer: Brahms Catalogue ...
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Violinist Midori performs Brahms Violin Concerto
Midori performs Brahms's Violin Concerto with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta on 13 February 2013. Antje Weithaas continues The Strad’s marked-up sheet music series in association with Henle Verlag with the Brahms Concerto's first movement – giving bowings, fingerings and ideas ...
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Janine Jansen performs Brahms Violin Concerto
Janine Jansen performs Brahms's Violin Concerto with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Bernard Haitink in 2014. Antje Weithaas continues The Strad’s marked-up sheet music series in association with Henle Verlag with the Brahms Concerto's first movement – giving bowings, fingerings and ideas for interpretation ...
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Masterclass with David Finckel: Brahms Piano Quartet no.1 in G minor
There has to be enough definition to these four-note phrases for the audience to make sense of the music' Cellist David Finckel leads the Zelda Quartet in a masterclass at The Juilliard School's Paul Hall. The quartet play the Allegro non troppo from Johannes Brahms' ...
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Debut. Bloch: Prayer (arr. Shaw). Brahms: Cello Sonatas: no.1 in E minor op.38; no.2 in F major op.99. Britten: Solo Cello Suite no.3. Casals: Song of the Birds (arr. Shaw); Trad: A Brit in Denmark (a
The Strad Issue: April 2016 Description: A quirky first recording for this Brit in Denmark Musicians: Jacob Shaw (cello) José Gallardo (piano) Musicians from the Confucius Institute Composer: Bloch; Brahms; Britten; Casals; Trad; De Wallensbourg; Wang Liping This is a rather unusual recording debut. The first disc, ...
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Gil Shaham performs Brahms's Violin Concerto
Gil Shaham performs Brahms's Violin Concerto in rehearsal at the Paris Philharmonie conducted by David Zinman for performances on 3 and 4 February 2016. Read: Gil Shaham on the irresistible lure of 1930s violin concertos Watch: Gil Shaham gives Mozart masterclass
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Brahms: Two Viola Sonatas op.120. Hindemith: Viola Sonata op.11 no.4. Weigl: Viola Sonata op.32
The Strad Issue: March 2016 Description: Vintage viola recordings that reveal a unique authenticity Musicians: Paul Doktor (viola) Nadia Reisenberg (piano) Composer: Brahms; Hindemith; Weigl These deliciously ‘old world’ readings were recorded around 60 years ago by a wonderfully well-attuned duo. The main drawback is the recording ...
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Bartók: Violin Concerto no.1. Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major op.77
The Strad Issue: March 2016 Description: Celestial sweetness in an odd couple of concertos Musicians: Janine Jansen (violin) Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, London Symphony Orchestra/Antonio Pappano Composer: Bartók; Brahms The connections Janine Jansen makes between these two concertos in the booklet notes may ...
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Brahms: Two String Quartets op.51
The Strad Issue: February 2016 Description: Playing of warmth that gets to the heart of Brahms’s elusive quartets Musicians: New Orford Quartet Composer: Brahms Brahms’s op.51 string quartets synthesise Beethovenian structural integrity with Schubertian lyricism under high musical pressure. The resulting contrapuntal compression was to have a ...
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Brahms: String Quintet no.2 in G major. Dvorák: String Quintet no.3 in E flat major ‘American’
The Strad Issue: February 2016 Description: Garlitsky and students take on two Romantic string quintets Musicians: Boris Garlitsky, Jaha Lee (violins) Kyoungmin Park, Georgy Kovalev (violas) Philip Graham (cello) Composer: Brahms; Dvorák The expansive and eager theme that opens the second of Brahms’s string quintets is one ...
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Brahms: Cello Sonata in E minor op.38. Schumann: Fantasiestücke op.73; Intermezzo from F-A-E Sonata; Adagio and Allegro op.70; Three Romances op.94
The Strad Issue: February 2016 Description: Characterful playing of persuasive transcriptions for viola Musicians: Ettore Causa (viola) Boris Berman (piano) Composer: Brahms; Schumann Schumann probably brought it upon himself when he allowed his late chamber music to be published in versions for different instruments.On this disc, violist ...
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Cello Concertos, Sonatas & Suites. Works by Bach, Beethoven, Boccherini, Brahms, Dvorák, Kabalevsky, Milhaud and Schumann
The Strad Issue: January 2016 Description: Collected performances by a legendary Canadian cellist Musicians: Zara Nelsova (cello) Artur Balsam, Lothar Broddack (pianos) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Georg Ludwig Jochum, Gerd Albrecht Composer: Bach, Beethoven, Boccherini, Brahms, Dvorák, Kabalevsky, Milhaud, Schumann The greatest cellist to come out of the ...
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Brahms: ‘Double’ Concerto in A minor for violin and cello. Prokofiev: Symphony-Concerto in E minor
The Strad Issue: January 2016 Description: Natalia Gutman, friends and family in live Moscow recordings Musicians: Natalia Gutman (cello) Oleg Kagan (violin) USSR State Academic SO/Yevgeny Svetlanov, Alexander Lazarev Composer: Brahms, Prokofiev Natalia Gutman has everything going for her except a large tone, and on record this ...
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Brahms: String Quartets op.51: no.1 in C minor, no.2 in A minor; In stiller Nacht
The Strad Issue: December 2015 Description: A faithful approach to the score mutes the drama of Brahms’s op.51 Musicians: Quiroga Quartet Composer: Brahms Over the years, Brahms’s first two string quartets have become tarnished with so much ‘interpretative insight’ that the Quiroga Quartet’s unaffected performance of the ...
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The Sonatas. Brahms: Cello Sonata no.1 in E minor (transc. de Groot). Gubaidulina: Double Bass Sonata. Hindemith: Double Bass Sonata. Vasks: Solo Double Bass Sonata
The Strad Issue: December 2015 Description: Brahms on the bass – at pitch! – and three more recent works Musicians: Niek de Groot (double bass) Catherine Klipfel (piano) Composer: Brahms, Gubaidulina, Hindemith, Vasks As his thoughtful message in the booklet states, Niek de Groot’s career was forged ...
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Brahms: Cello Sonatas: no.1 in E minor op.38; no.2 in F major op.99; Six Lieder (transc. Schwabe/Rimmer)
The Strad Issue: December 2015 Description: Speedy traversals of the cello sonatas don’t delve below the surface Musicians: Gabriel Schwabe (cello) Nicholas Rimmer (piano) Composer: Brahms This recording of Brahms’s cello sonatas enters a crowded field but offers precious few insights. That said, the choice of song ...
