All Mendelssohn articles – Page 5
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ReviewBartók: Violin Concerto no.2. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
Description: Sparkling Mendelssohn and the best Bartók Second for agesMusicians: Augustin Hadelich (violin) Norwegian Radio Orchestra/Miguel Harth-BedoyaComposer: Bartók, MendelssohnAugustin Hadelich has won acclaim for playing and programming, his 2014 Sibelius/Adès disc becoming one of the ‘Top Classical Albums of the Year’ in the New York Times. I can’t ...
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ReviewGrieg: Cello Sonata in A minor op.36. Hough: Sonata for Cello and Piano Left Hand ‘Les adieux’. Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata no.2 in D major op.58
The Strad Issue: August 2015Description: Authoritative musicianship from Isserlis and Hough in Romantic sonatasMusicians: Steven Isserlis (cello) Stephen Hough (piano)Composer: Grieg, Hough, MendelssohnGrieg’s Cello Sonata encompasses a wide-ranging emotional landscape, to which Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough, a magnificent partnership, respond with big-hearted playing. Isserlis is good ...
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ArticleOrchestral audition masterclass on Midsummer Night's Dream at Royal College of Music
The stroke is a little too cushioned. It needs to be a little shorter and crisper'Morgensterns in partnership with the Musicians’ Union present a string audition masterclass on Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream at The Royal College of Music in London. On the panel are Pieter Schoeman, London Philharmonic ...
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ReviewFive Decades of Treasured Performances. Works by Barber, Bartók, Beethoven, A. Benjamin, Bloch, Brahms, Brustad, Chausson, Chopin, Debussy, Fauré, Gershwin, Grieg, Kreisler, Mendelssohn, Nín, Paradis,
The Strad Issue: August 2015Description: A celebration of an under-sung violinist now in her eightiesMusicians: Camilla Wicks (violin) various artistsComposer: Barber, Bartók, Beethoven, A. Benjamin, Bloch, Brahms, Brustad, Chausson, Chopin, Debussy, Fauré, Gershwin, Grieg, Kreisler, Mendelssohn, Nín, Paradis, Ravel, Sarasate, Scărlătescu, Schubert, Shostakovich, R. Strauss, Tailleferre, Tchaikovsky, ...
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ArticleHeifetz, Rubinstein and Piatigorsky perform Mendelssohn
Legendary musicians, violinist Jascha Heifetz, pianist Artur Rubinstein and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky perform Mendelssohn's Piano Trio no.1 † a work they recorded along with the trios of Ravel for RCA Victor in 1949.The Strad's May 2015 issue, out now, examines how the advent of recording at the dawn ...
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ReviewBeethoven: Piano Trio in D major op.70 no.1 ‘Ghost’. Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor op.50. Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words op.62 no.4, op.102 no.4 & op.19b no.1 (arr. Kowalewski)
The Strad Issue: May 2015Description: Persuasive and well-proportioned playing with a rich toneMusicians: Petrof Piano TrioComposer: Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, MendelssohnThe Petrof players perform the outer movements of Beethoven’s ‘Ghost’ Trio with excitement and energy. In the first they sweep though the composer’s dialogue and counterpoint as if engaged ...
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ReviewMendelssohn: Piano Trios: no.1 in D minor op.49; no.2 in C minor op.66
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: May 2015Description: Power and symphonic sweep in Mendelssohn’s two triosMusicians: Aquinas Piano TrioComposer: MendelssohnCaptured in opulent sound of unusual depth that gently cushions the music’s semiquaver brilliance, the emotional kinship between Mendelssohn and the Schumann–Brahms tradition has rarely been so powerfully conveyed. ...
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ArticleMaxim Vengerov on Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
One note of wider vibrato can ruin the purity of the whole line...'Violinist Maxim Vengerov gives a masterclass on Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Playing the solo part is Aya Sanada. The full 48-minute video is available to buy as a download or ...
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ReviewMendelssohn: Piano Quartets no.1 in C minor & no.3 in B minor, Largo and Allegro in D minor
The Strad Issue: March 2015Description: Early Mendelssohn that might have been lifted by more inspiring playingMusicians: Gabriele Pieranunzi, Daniela Cammarano (violin) Francesco Fiore (viola) Shana Downes (cello) Roberto Prosseda (piano)Composer: MendelssohnMendelssohn’s extraordinary precocity is amply demonstrated on this disc. Presented in counter-chronological order, it starts with the ...
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NewsViolist Sara Kim wins €8,000 Mendelssohn Prize
This year’s competition took place from 14–18 January at the Berlin University of the Arts
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ArticleBruch: Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor op.26. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto no.2 in E minor op.64. Ravel: Tzigane
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2006Musicians: Niki Vasilakis (violin) Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Sebastian Lang-Lessing (conductor)Composer: Bruch, Mendelssohn, RavelThe rhythmically free and spacious initial statement of Bruch’s First Violin Concerto is a foretaste of the personal and unhurried view of the score from the 22-year-old Australian Niki ...
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