All Haydn articles – Page 5
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ReviewWanderer Trio: Haydn Piano Trios
Plenty of fresh musical insights make these outstanding interpretations
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ReviewLisa Jacobs, The String Soloists: Haydn Violin Concertos
HAYDN Violin Concertos: no.1 in C major, no.3 in A major ‘Melker Konzert’, no.4 in G major
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ReviewDoric Quartet: Haydn op.64 quartets
Superb performances bring out all the subtlety and wonder of these quartets
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ReviewDaniel Müller-Schott: Cello Reimagined – Bach, Haydn, Mozart
Enterprise and imagination make for a very fine cello recital
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ReviewCorinne Morris: Chrysalis - Cello works by Haydn, Couperin, Monn
The Strad Issue: January 2018 Description: Cellist’s brave and commendable comeback after injury Musicians: Corinne Morris (cello), Scottish Chamber Orchestra Works: HAYDN Cello Concerto in C major, COUPERIN Pieces en Concert (arr. Paul Bazelaire), MONN Cello Concerto in G minor Catalogue Number: ...
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FocusString trio repertoire from Haydn to the present day
To accompany The Strad’s October 2017 issue cover feature on the Trio Zimmermann, Geraint Lewis looks at the available repertoire for this Cinderella of string genres
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NewsThe Strad October 2017 issue is out now
Frank Peter Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit and Christian Poltéra on learning to work as one in the Trio Zimmermann
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ArticleWIN the Chiaroscuro Quartet's latest Haydn CD
In the July 2017 issue of The Strad, we talk to the four members of the Chiaroscuro Quartet – violinists Alina Ibragimova and Pablo Hernán Benedí, violist Emilie Hörnlund and cellist Claire Thirion – about their continuing fascination with the works of Franz Joseph Haydn, whose string quartets they are ...
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ReviewHaydn: String Quartets op.20 nos.1–3 (‘Sun’)
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: October 2016 Description: Ibragimova and friends rise to three of Haydn’s ‘Sun’ Quartets Musicians: Chiaroscuro Quartet Composer: Joseph Hadyn Catalogue number: BIS 2158 (SACD) The Chiaroscuro Quartet ...
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ReviewElgar: Violin Concerto in B minor op.61; Haydn: Concerto in F major for violin, keyboard and strings
The Strad Issue: September 2016 Description: The Elgar Concerto’s first Soviet recording by the scion of the Oistrakh family Musicians: Igor Oistrakh (violin), Natalia Zertsalova (piano), Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra/Valentin Zhuk Composer: Elgar, Haydn Catalogue ...
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ReviewHaydn: Cello Concertos: no.1 in C major, no.2 in D major; Adagio (Violin Concerto no.1 in C major); Adagio (Symphony no.13 in D major)
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: September 2016 Description: A charming cello comes out to play Haydn’s two concertos and more Musicians: Pavel Gomziakov (cello) Gulbenkian Orchestra/Erik Heide (concertmaster) Composer: Haydn Catalogue number: ONYX 4151 For some, the chance to hear the ...
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NewsHaydn portrait discovered in US antique store
The 1785 painting by Christian Ludwig Seehas has been acquired by the International Joseph Haydn Private Foundation Eisenstadt
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ReviewHaydn: Six String Quartets op.76
The Strad Issue: June 2016 Description: The Doric players relish Haydn’s late set of six quartets Musicians: Doric Quartet Composer: Haydn The Doric Quartet’s accounts of Haydn’s six quartets op.76 are technically assured, carefully determined, strikingly ...
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ReviewSerious Business. Fisher-Lochhead: Hack. Haydn: String Quartet in E flat major op.33 no.2 ‘Joke’. Macklay: Many Many Cadences. Reminick: The Ancestral Mousetrap Spektral Quartet
The Strad Issue: May 2016 Description: The Spektral’s exploration of musical humour is no laughing matter Musicians: Spektral Quartet Composer: Fisher-Lochhead; Haydn; Macklay; Reminick Serious Business, the Chicago-based Spektral Quartet knowingly calls its collection of four ...
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ArticleCellist Ralph Kirshbaum gives Haydn masterclass
You should play with a feeling of improvisation, as this is a cadenza. At the moment it feels too self-conscious'Ralph Kirshbaum gives a masterclass on Haydn's Cello Concerto in D for Play With A Pro Music Academy. The full 42-minute video can be downloaded here.Watch: Cellist Ralph Kirshbaum ...
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ReviewMetamorphoses. 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 2015Description: Austro–Hungarian connections for a Dutch quartet’s debut discMusicians: Dudok QuartetComposer: 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 the musical cross-culture of ...
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ReviewPablo Casals: A Concert at the White House. Casals: El cant dels ocells. F. Couperin: Suite (arr. Bazelaire). Haydn: Piano Trio no.39 in G major ‘Gypsy Rondo’. Mendelssohn: Piano Trio no.1 in D minor
The Strad Issue: November 2015Description: Casals, late in life, with illustrious friends playing for the KennedysMusicians: Pablo Casals (cello) Alexander Schneider, Jacques Thibaud (violin) Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Alfred Cortot (piano)Composer: Casals, F. Couperin, Haydn, Mendelssohn, SchumannThis is the famous concert at the White House on 13 November 1961, ...
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ReviewMoments of Youth. Bach: Cello Suite no.3 in C major BWV1009. Schumann: Fantasiestücke op.73. Fauré: Élégie. Haydn: Adagio from Cello Concerto no.2 in D major. Cassadó: Requiebros. Piazzolla: Le grand
Description: Debut recital from a teenage cellist – but has he been captured too early?Musicians: Brendan Goh (cello) Reinhard Schobesberger (piano)Composer: Bach, Schumann, Fauré, Haydn, Cassadó, Piazzolla, PaganiniBrendan Goh is clearly a cellist with some promise. At the age of 15 he is already in his first year ...
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ArticleSalomon Quartet performs Haydn
The Salomon Quartet — violinists Simon Standage and Catherine Martin, violist Adam Romer and cellist Andrew Skidmore — gives a period performance of Haydn's String Quartet op.71 no.2.Royal Academy of Music professor of Baroque violin Simon Standage contributes a Technique article on bow control and son filé to ...
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ReviewHaydn: String Quartets op.20
The Strad Issue: January 2015Description: Modern-instrument Haydn performed with period sensitivitiesMusicians: Doric QuartetComposer: HaydnListening to the Doric Quartet’s excellent op.20 set, one is struck by Haydn’s inventiveness. This is indeed visceral and subversive music, and this admirable group brings out all these tendencies beautifully. As I suggested ...
