All Magazine articles – Page 98
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ReviewConcert reviews: Edinburgh International Festival 2019
There were fewer string performances than usual on the programme of 2019’s Edinburgh festivals, but the quality of those was often superb, reports David Kettle
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ReviewBook review: B.C. Before Cremona: A Path through History to the Violin
Shem Mackey review John Huber’s trawl through more than a millennium of stringed-instrument development
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ReviewBook review: The Nightingale’s Sonata: The Musical Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz
Tully Potter reviews Thomas Wolf’s comprehensive biography of the 20th-century violinist
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ReviewKatherine Jenkinson, Nicholas Holland: Shostakovich
An intriguing pairing of dramatic cello sonatas, new and established
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ReviewMaria Milstein, Nathalia Milstein: Voyageur
The Milstein sisters take us on a journey of French repertoire and song transcriptions
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ReviewMichael Barenboim, Kian Soltani: Mozart
A ‘friends and family’ trio displays musical chemistry and superb artistry
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ReviewVogler Quartet: Dvořák
Balanced performances present revealing insights into the composer’s development
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ReviewFranziska Hölscher: Berio, Biber, Schumann, Sciarrino
Franziska Hölscher: Berio, Biber, Schumann, Sciarrino The Strad Issue: December 2019 Description: A young violinist’s impressive programme and thoughtful performances Musicians: Franziska Hölscher (violin) Severin von Eckardstein (piano) Works: BERIO Sequenza VIII per Violino Solo BIBER Passacaglia in G minor SCHUMANN Sonata in D minor op.121 SCIARRINO ...
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ReviewDaniel Müller-Schott: Strauss
Cello stars amid a constellation of other soloists in passionate performances
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Premium ❘ DebateSoundpost: Letters to The Strad
A selection of letters The Strad receives each month from its readers around the world: November 2019 issue
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ReviewBelcea Quartet: Janáček, Ligeti
Restless, gripping performances that both surprise and delight
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Premium ❘ FeatureTurning Over a New Leaf
Since her professional debut almost 30 years ago, Sarah Chang has maintained a glittering solo performing and recording career. But, as she tells Charlotte Smith, her more recent desire to take on ‘passion projects’ has led to fulfilling chamber and contemporary collaborations
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Premium ❘ FeatureBright Young Things
The New York String Orchestra Seminar, one of America’s first orchestral training programmes for young musicians, celebrated its 50th anniversary in December 2018. Bruce Hodges attended rehearsals and concerts of the landmark season, and looks ahead to the ensemble’s December 2019 edition
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Premium ❘ FeatureFirst Class: European bow makers in America
Despite achieving a high level of quality, the American bow makers of the early 20th century have languished in obscurity – until now. Raphael Gold explores the lives of Frank Kovanda, Ernst Lohberg and Anders Halvarson, who all learnt their craft in the Chicago workshop of William Lewis & Son ...
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Premium ❘ FeatureDefining a Nation
For many classical enthusiasts Brazilian music can be summed up in the folk-inspired compositions of Villa-Lobos. Naxos’s multivolume series The Music of Brazil is set to broaden awareness, beginning with several 19th- and 20th-century composers whose string and orchestral works at once mirrored and defied their country’s colonial history, writes ...
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Premium ❘ FeatureViews on the Bridge
In the second of two articles on set-up, Joseph Curtin investigates the acoustical role of the violin bridge and the interconnected relationships between mass, frequency and resonance
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ReviewFabiola Kim: 1939
Warm and heartfelt accounts of three concertos written at the end of the 1930s
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ReviewFrang, Altstaedt, Power, Kelemen, Kokas: Veress, Bartók
Compelling live performances of folk-influenced Hungarian chamber works
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ReviewPeter Sheppard Skærved: Tartini
Plenty of expressive drama in the conclusion to this ambitious project
