All Brahms articles – Page 4
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ArticleMasterclass 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 ...
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Phantasie. Brahms: Cello Sonata in E flat major op.120 no.2. Reger: Adagio from Suite no.1 for solo cello; Largo from Suite no.2 for solo cello. Schubert: Fantasie in C major D934; Sonatina in G minor
The Strad Issue: December 2015 Description: Wispelwey embarks on the complete duos of Brahms and Schubert Musicians: Pieter Wispelwey (cello) Paolo Giacometti (piano) Composer: Brahms, Reger, Schubert It is inevitable that the status of ‘arrangements’ and ‘transcriptions’ of canonic works remains questionable to many, even when ...
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Metamorphoses. Haydn: String Quartet in C major op.54 no.2. Ligeti: String Quartet no. 1 ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’. Brahms: Intermezzos: in A minor op.116 no.2 (arr. Judith van Driel), in E major op.1
The Strad Issue: November 2015 Description: Austro–Hungarian connections for a Dutch quartet’s debut disc Musicians: Dudok Quartet Composer: Haydn, Ligeti, Brahms (arr. Judith van Driel and David Faber) According to the booklet notes, the Métamorphoses of the disc’s title refer not just to Ligeti’s quartet but to ...
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Brahms: Violin Sonatas: no.2 in A major op.100, no.3 in D minor op.108. Dietrich/Schumann/Brahms: F.A.E.’ Sonata. Schumann: Three Romances op.94
The Strad Issue: November 2015 Description: Faust and Melnikov finish their Brahms survey, eight years on Musicians: Isabelle Faust (violin) Alexander Melnikov (piano) Composer: Brahms, Dietrich/Schumann/Brahms, Schumann Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov complete their Brahms sonata cycle as they started (2007), with Faust playing a gut-strung 1704 ...
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Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major op.77. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major op.35; Méditation in D minor op.42 no.1
The Strad Issue: November 2015 Description: Great Kogan performances, even if they are misidentified Musicians: Leonid Kogan (violin) Boston Symphony Orchestra/Pierre Monteux; Paris Conservatoire Orchestra/Constantin Silvestri Composer: Brahms, Tchaikovsky These great interpretations by the incomparable Leonid Kogan come with misinformation. The live Brahms Concerto from 11 ...
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Brahms: Cello Sonatas: no.1 in E minor op.38; no.2 in F major op.99. Schumann: Fantasiestücke op.73
The Strad Issue: October 2015 Description: Classical restraint in Romantic music for this French duo’s recording debut Musicians: Bruno Philippe (cello) Tanguy de Williencourt (piano) Composer: Brahms, Schumann Two young French musicians offer promising and subtly interpreted performances of these central works of the Romantic cello repertoire ...
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Transcriptions for Strings. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition. Brahms: Clarinet Sonata in F minor op.120 no.1. Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C sharp minor op.3 no.2 (all arr. Cohen)
The Strad Issue: September 2015 Description: String arrangement offers a new view of Mussorgsky’s picture gallery Musicians: Anna Hashimoto (clarinet) †¨Isis Ensemble/Jacques Cohen Composer: Mussorgsky, Brahms, Rachmaninoff You’ll be struck straight away by the sound of unison bowed and plucked strings as the art lover marches purposefully ...
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Roby Lakatos performs Brahms's Hungarian Dance no.5
Gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos puts his unique stamp on Brahms's Fifth Hungarian Dance. Lakatos gives a guide to gypsy fusion playing in The Strad's September 2015 issue , out now - download through The Strad App
