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ArticleElgar: Cello Concerto in E minor op.85, In moonlight, La capricieuse, Romance op.42, Salut d’amour, Chanson de matin, Sospiri
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Natalie Clein (cello) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Vernon Handley (conductor)Composer: Elgar Natalie Clein’s affinity with Elgarian melody is joyously evident on this disc. She employs her rich tone with a light touch, and her playing is marked by elasticity of ...
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ArticleFerneyhough: Funerailles I & II, Bone Alphabet, Unsichtbare Farben
The Strad Issue: January 2006Musicians: Irvine Arditti (violin) Christian Dierstein (percussion) Ensemble RechercheComposer: Ferneyhough Even a page of Elliott Carter can look pale in comparison to the profusion of notes and instructions on a score by Brian Ferneyhough, and this has left the German-domiciled ...
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ArticleMary Ellen Childs: Dream House
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: EthelComposer: Mary Ellen Childs Contemporary specialist string quartet Ethel is the focal point for this new extended suite, inspired by the renovation of the composer’s home and intended as a ‘commentary on cycles of time, rhythms of work, ...
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ArticleMedtner: Violin Sonata no.3 in E minor op.57 ‘Epica’, Three Nocturnes op.16, Fairy Tale in B flat minor op. 20 no.1 (arr. Heifetz)
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Laurence Kayaleh (violin) Paul Stewart (piano)Composer: MedtnerCompleted in 1938, shortly after the Russian-born composer Nikolai Medtner made his home in England, the five-movement Third Violin Sonata outlasts most 20th-century symphonies in length. Its rhapsodic style of writing provides Medtner’s ideas with ample ...
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ArticleMendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor op.64 (1832 version), String Octet in E flat major op.20, Hexenlied op.8 no.8, Suleika op.34 no.4, Auf Flügeln des Gesanges op.34 no.2
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Daniel Hope (violin) Lucy Gould (violin) Sophie Besançon (violin) Christian Eisenberger (violin) Pascal Siffert (viola) Stewart Eaton (viola) William Conway (cello) Kate Gould (cello) Sebastian Knauer (piano) Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor) Composer: MendelssohnThis is the best playing I have ...
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ArticleNew Impossibilities. Works by Abou-Khalil, Golijov, Zhou Long, Kalhor, Das, Hai-Hai Huang, Trad. etc
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Yo-Yo Ma (cello) Silk Road Ensemble, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya (conductor)Composer: Abou-Khalil, Golijov, Zhou Long, Kalhor, Das, Hai-Hai Huang, Trad. etcNew Impossibilities is the product of the Silk Road Ensemble’s year-long residency in Chicago. It features works by world music star ...
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ArticleNocturne. Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor op.65, Introduction and Polonaise brillante op.3, arrangements of keyboard works for cello and piano
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Truls Mørk (cello) Kathryn Stott (piano)With a disc entitled ‘Nocturne’, melancholy is likely to be the prevailing mood, yet there is variety in Truls Mørk and Kathryn Stott’s programme thanks mostly to the original works for cello and piano, notably ...
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ArticleNouvelles Vagues: From Godard to Audiard. Works by Barbieri, Delerue, Desplat, Duhamel, Maurice Jarre & Morricone
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Traffic QuintetComposer: Barbieri, Delerue, Desplat, Duhamel, Maurice Jarre & Morricone The Traffic Quintet, a recently formed string quartet–double bass ensemble, takes its name from Jacques Tati’s classic 1971 film Trafic – his fifth and last outing, incidentally, as Monsieur ...
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ArticleKlein: String Trio, Four Movements for String Quartet, String Quartet op.2, Duo for violin & viola, Preludium, Duo for violin & cello, Fantasy and Fugue
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Kocian Quartet Composer: KleinWe are lucky to have any music by Gideon Klein (1919–45). As a Jew, he was banned from studying by the Nazis. His pre-war works survived thanks to the Schoenberg scholar Eduard Hertzog, who ...
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ArticleBusoni
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Joseph Lin (violin) Benjamin Loeb (piano) Composer: Busoni: Violin Sonatas nos.1 & 2, Four Bagatelles op.28Ferruccio Busoni’s two violin sonatas are both early works. The First Sonata (1890), a student piece that won the 23-year-old composer the Rubinstein Prize in St ...
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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 ...
