Recording reviews – Page 211
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ArticleRoumain: etudes4violin&electronix. Featuring DJ Spooky, Peter Gordon, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Philip Glass etc
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Daniel Bernard Roumain (violin)Composer: Roumain Daniel Bernard Roumain is not new to cross-genre meetings of minds, but this series of collaborations with various luminaries from across the contemporary music spectrum, including DJ Spooky and Philip Glass, is his debut solo album. Framed ...
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ArticleAriosti: Stockholm Sonatas for viola d’amore vol.2
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Thomas Georgi (viola d’amore) Lucas Harris (archlute, guitar) Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello)Composer: Ariosti This is the second volume of the complete music for viola d’amore by Attilio Ariosti (the first was reviewed in October 2006). The Recueil de pie?ces pour ...
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ArticleVirtuoso Cello Showpieces. Works by Orr, Danzi, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Cassado? & Dvorák
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Maria Kliegel (cello) Nina Tichman (piano)Composer: Orr, Danzi, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Cassado? & Dvorák Maria Kliegel fulfils all the requisite technical stipulations for her chosen repertoire and in equal measure delivers interpretationsof bravura and rich characterisation. The well-balanced recording and excellent accompaniment from ...
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ArticleHartmann: Concerto funebre, Solo Violin Sonatas nos.1 & 2, Solo Suites nos.1 & 2
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Alina Ibragimova (violin) Britten SinfoniaComposer: HartmannThe principal English biography of Karl Amadeus Hartmann lumps him in with Hindemith and Henze, and you can hear why from the angular but Classically proportioned introduction to the Concerto funebre. If he is a ...
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ArticleMaw: String Quartet no.3. Britten: String Quartet no.3, Three Divertimenti
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Coull QuartetComposer: Maw, BrittenNicholas Maw, now resident in America, is one of the outstanding figures from a British senior generation that includes Richard Rodney Bennett, Hugh Wood and Harrison Birtwistle. Stylistically he has more in common with the first two, ...
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ArticleMozart: Six Variations in G minor on He?las, j’ai perdu mon amant K360
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Antoinette Lohmann (violin) Vaughan Schlepp (fortepiano)Composer: Mozart Our knowledge of Margarethe Marchand prior to her marriage to composer Franz Danzi largely resides in letters written by Leopold Mozart, who taught her and her brother when they were teenagers. She became ...
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ArticleBach: Gamba Sonatas no.1 in G major BWV1027, no.2 in D major BWV1028 & no.3 in G minor BWV1029. C.P.E. Bach: Gamba Sonata in D major H559
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Daniel Mu?ller-Schott (cello) Angela Hewitt (piano)Composer: Bach, C.P.E. Bach: If the case must still be made for the performance of Baroque music on the wrong instruments, this CD will suffice. Daniel Mu?ller- Schott plays Bach’s gamba sonatas on the cello ...
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ArticleBrahms and his contemporaries vol.1. Brahms: Cello Sonata no.2 in F major op.99. Fuchs: Cello Sonata no.2 in E flat minor op.8. Zemlinsky: Cello Sonata in A minor
Musicians: Johannes Moser (cello) Paul Rivinius (piano)Composer: Brahms, Fuchs, Zemlinsky The star of this disc is the Zemlinsky Sonata. Practically forgotten since its premiere in 1894, given by cellist Friedrich Buxbaum and the 23-year-old composer, the manuscript stayed in Buxbaum’s family until the late 1970s, and ...
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ArticleSaint-George: Violin Concertos in D major G029, A major G039 & G major G050, Symphonie concertante in G major G024
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Bertrand Cervera (violin) Christophe Guiot (violin) Thibault Vieux (violin) Orchestre Les Archets de ParisComposer: Saint-George Les Archets de Paris includes some excellent orchestral string players, three of whom assume solo roles in Saint-George’s works recorded here. Gabriel Banat [WHO’S ...
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ArticleSaint-Saëns: Cello Sonata no.1, Suite op.16, Romances opp.36 & 51, Tarentelle op.10, Prière op.158 & Le cygnet from ‘Carnaval des animaux’
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) Pascal Amoyel (piano)Composer: Saint-SaënsThis CD reveals some impressive music that surely deserves a stronger position in the repertoire. This is particularly the case with the First Cello Sonata, a work that makes considerable technical demands on the pianist, who ...
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ArticleSchumann: Cello Concerto op.129. Brahms: Serenade no.1
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Natalia Gutman (cello) Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)Composer: Schumann, Brahms Recorded while touring Europe with this concerto to mark the 150th anniversary of Schumann’s death last year, Natalia Gutman’s interpretation of the work is considered and stately. The ...
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ArticleStravinsky: Violin Concerto*, Symphonies of Wind Instruments† , Zvezdoliki‡, Rite of Spring*
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Jennifer Frautschi (violin) Philharmonia Orchestra*, Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble† , Orchestra of St Luke’s‡, Gregg Smith Singers‡, Robert Craft (conductor)Composer: Stravinsky Robert Craft, a one-time and long-time associate of both Schoenberg and Stravinsky, thinks that the Russian ...
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ArticleVivaldi: Violin Concertos in B flat major RV370, D minor RV243, E flat major RV254 & E major RV134, Concerto in C major for violin & two cellos RV561, Arias from ‘La costanza trionfante de gl’amori e
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Adrian Chandler (violin/director) Sarah McMahon (cello) Gareth Deats (cello) Mhairi Lawson (soprano) La SerenissimaComposer: VivaldiThis second volume of La Serenissima’s series tracking the rise of the North Italian violin concerto from 1690 to 1740 features a mixture of concerto types by Vivaldi ...
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ArticleWebern: Langsamer Satz. Berg: Lyric Suite. Schoenberg: Quartet no.4
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Psophos QuartetComposer: Webern, Berg, Schoenberg While Schoenberg’s Fourth Quartet (1936) is a late flowering of the composer’s strict twelve-note period, the other two works presented here are both to some extent romantic love letters: Webern’s Langsamer Satz, written ...
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ArticleBach: Violin Concertos in D minor BWV1052, G minor BWV1056, E major BWV1042 & A minor BWV1041
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Amandine Beyer (violin/director) Gli IncognitiComposer: BachIf you flicked on any single movement on this CD you’d think, ‘this is nice’ – bouncy, accurate, fun Bach playing. Only when you move through the disc does it becomes apparent that that’s all ...
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ArticleDvorák: Piano Quintet op.81, Bagatelles op.47
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Ensemble Explorations, Frank Braley (piano/harmonium)Composer: Dvorák Dvo?ák’s Piano Quintet contains music of many personalities, and Ensemble Explorations is unfailingly responsive to all of them. In the second-movement Dumka, the contrasting sections are clearly delineated, the dances separated by ...
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ArticleA Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Turtle Island QuartetComposer: Various The Turtle Island Quartet pays tribute to John Coltrane in this series of highly creative yet sensitive arrangements of his music. The players cover the groundbreaking Love Supreme suite and some of his other best-known tunes, as ...
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ArticleHaydn: String Quartets op.33 nos.2, 3 & 5
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Párkányí Quartet Composer: HaydnThe Párkányí Quartet finds just the right blend of naivety and Classical poise in Haydn’s Quartet op.33 no.3, with its acciaccatura bird-pecking in the first movement, delightful clipped violin duet in the second movement ...
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ArticleAlwyn: Sonata Impromptu, Sonatina, Ballade, Rhapsody, Three Winter Poems, Songs
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Madeleine Mitchell (violin) Roger Chase (viola) Andrew Ball (piano) Iain Burnside (piano) John Turner (recorder) Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) Bridge QuartetComposer: AlwynWilliam Alwyn was one of the most underrated English masters of the last century. His vast output ranges from ...
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ArticleMozart: Violin Sonatas in G major K301, E flat major K302, C major K303, E minor K304, A major K305 & D major K306
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Gil Shaham (violin) Orli Shaham (piano) Composer: MozartMozart was 22 when he arrived in Paris in 1778, free of his father’s presence. With his ever-commercial mind, had brought a portfolio of works containing four violin sonatas, to which he ...
