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All Reviews articles – Page 173
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ReviewLa Belle Danse: Ballets Anciens & Modernes. Music by Lully, Marais, Muffat, Brade, Praetorius & Rossi
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A new recreation of a renowned Baroque French string ensembleMusicians: Capriccio Stravagante Les 24 Violons/Skip Sempé (director)Composer: Lully, Marais, Muffat, Brade, Praetorius & Rossi This live recording from the 2010 Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht has impressive clarity and presence. It marks this ...
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ArticleEvening Songs. Delius/Ireland: Songs arr. cello & piano
The Strad Issue: Feburary 2012Description: Two notable anniversaries celebrated in a delectable collection of song arrangementsMusicians: Julian Lloyd Webber, Jiaxin Cheng (cello) John Lenehan (piano)Composer: Delius/IrelandTo coincide with the 150th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Delius and the 50th of the death of John Ireland, Julian ...
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ReviewViolin in Motion. Works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Liszt, Beethoven & Franck
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Modern advocacy for the art of the transcriber from a virtuoso duoMusicians: Lidia Baich (violin) Matthias Fletzberger (piano)Composer: Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Liszt, Beethoven & FranckThe age of violin and piano transcriptions of symphonic works had long passed when the music that ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A remarkable testament to a great violinist that transcends its sonic inadequaciesMusicians: Henri Temianka (violin) Leonard Shure (piano)Composer: BeethovenAlthough technically Scottish, Henri Temianka had a continental European background and musical education, with Polish–Jewish parents and time spent studying in Rotterdam, ...
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ReviewVaughan Williams: Suite, Flos campi. McEwen: Viola Concerto
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2012Description: The leading British violist explores more of the Tertis legacy to great effectMusicians: Lawrence Power (viola) BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales/Martyn BrabbinsComposer: Vaughan Williams, McEwenJohn Blackwood McEwen’s Viola Concerto was the first of many works commissioned by the great ...
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ArticleFranck: Violin Sonata in A major (transc. Delsart). Debussy: Cello Sonata in D minor. Poulenc: Cello Sonata
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A welcome collection of three Gallic cello sonatasMusicians: Anne Gastinel (cello) Claire Désert (piano)Composer: Franck (transc. Delsart), Debussy, PoulencFrench cellist Anne Gastinel returns to her roots in this disc, celebrating 20 years since her first recording. Claire Désert creates a still, quiet ...
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Review
The Dam Levels
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: An unusual jazz trio that has a cello instead of the usual double bassMusicians: Will Martinu (cello) Jason Lindner (piano) Richie Barshay (drums)Composer: Will Martinu et alWill Martinu’s group bears some of the hallmarks of recent notable jazz trios The Bad Plus and EST ...
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ReviewKennedy: The Four Elements
The Strad Issue: Feburary 2012Description: Nigel Kennedy’s venture into composition suggests he should stick to playingMusicians: Nigel Kennedy (violin etc) Members of the Orchestra of LifeComposer: KennedyYou can’t fault Kennedy for ambition. Writing almost an hour of new music as a ‘21st-century response to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons’ ...
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ArticleSchnittke: String Quartets nos.1–4, Canon in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A Canadian ensemble brings out the songfulness of a modern Russian master’s quartetsMusicians: Molinari QuartetComposer: SchnittkeSchnittke’s four string quartets appeared variously between 1966 and 1989, announced by a work composed originally for the Borodin Quartet that draws upon the micro-gesturing and sonic profiling ...
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ArticleThe Mahler Album. Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony no.5, Adagio from Symphony no.10 (arr. Stadlmair). Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor op.95 ‘Serioso’ (arr. Mahler)
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: An unusual but telling contribution to the recent Mahler anniversaries from a leading string orchestraMusicians: Amsterdam Sinfonietta/Candida ThompsonComposer: Mahler (arr. Stadlmair), Beethoven (arr. Mahler)Cast aside any accusations of ‘bleeding chunks’ with this celebration of Mahler: the composer himself often programmed the Adagietto ...
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ArticleThe American Album. Dvorák: String Quartet in F major op.96 ‘American’. Griffes: Two Sketches Based on Indian Themes. Barber: String Quartet in B minor op.11
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Quartets that express different aspects of the American experienceMusicians: Cypress QuartetComposer: Dvorák, Griffes, Barber The booklet describes the Cypress sound as being built up from the bottom register, and in Ethan Filner’s introductory viola motif to Dvo?ák’s ‘American’ Quartet ...
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ArticleBrahms: Viola Sonatas op.120
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Bel canto meets Brahms in some perhaps over-lovingly tended sonata performancesMusicians: Danilo Rossi (viola) Stefano Bezziccheri (piano)Composer: BrahmsThis latest in the apparently unending line of Brahms viola sonata recordings comes from south of the Alps. Danilo Rossi is principal viola at the ...
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ArticleJanácek: Violin Sonata. Schumann: Violin Sonata no. 2 in D minor op.121. Schubert: Fantasy in C major D934
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Mixed success in a recital of varied violin repertoireMusicians: Frank Stadler (violin) Luis MagalhÁes (piano)Composer: Janácek, Schumann, SchubertThe powerful opening chords set the scene for Frank Stadler’s impressively intense performance of Schumann’s Second Sonata. Perfectly capturing the wide mood swings that picture ...
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ArticleReger: Three Suites for solo cello op.131c
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Even top performances can’t rescue Reger’s suites from the practice roomMusicians: Ulrich Horn (cello)Composer: RegerReger’s cello suites are a little bit like cod liver oil: they’re good for you, but would you want to live on them alone? There are a few ...
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ArticleFauré: Piano Quartet in C minor op.15. Brahms: Piano Quartet in G minor op.25
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Some fine performances let down by a piano-dominated balanceMusicians: Primrose Piano QuartetComposer: Fauré & BrahmsThis CD was recorded using a Blüthner piano chosen by Brahms in 1896 for a young British pianist, Margarita Hanson, who had met him while she was studying ...
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ArticleReinecke: Cello Sonatas in A minor op.42, D major op.89 & G major op.238
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Neglected Romantic cello sonatas brought alluringly to lifeMusicians: Manuel Fischer-Dieskau (cello) Connie Shih (piano)Composer: ReineckeThree Romantic sonatas for the cello ought to be enough to set the pulses racing given the relative paucity of worthy material from this period. However, although these ...
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ArticleLeighton: Partita op.35, Elegy op.5, Sonata for Cello Solo op.52, Alleluia Pascha Nostrum op.85
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A welcome collection of music by a master writer for the celloMusicians: Raphael Wallfisch (cello) Raphael Terroni (piano)Composer: LeightonRaphael Wallfisch adds yet another high-quality disc of English music to his impressively extensive discography, with Kenneth Leighton’s complete chamber works for cello. As ...
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ArticleSchumann: String Quartets op.41, Piano Quintet in E flat major op.44
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Recordings of Schumann that are just a little too individualistic for comfortMusicians: Gringolts Quartet, Peter Laul (piano)Composer: SchumannHow you take to the performances by the Gringolts Quartet depends very much on how you respond to the playing of Ilya Gringolts himself in the first violinist’s ...
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ArticleMozart: String Quartet in C major K465 ‘Dissonance’. Schubert: String Quartet in A minor D804 ‘Rosamunde’
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A young quartet belies its name in the subtle colouring of its playingMusicians: Chiaroscuro QuartetComposer: Mozart & SchubertFormed in 2005 at the Royal College of Music, the Chiaroscuro Quartet has the inestimable advantage of having Alina Ibragimova as its leader. ...
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ArticleSpirit Song. Works by Jacopo da Bologna, Alexander, B. Turetzky, Hauta-aho & Fricker
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Intriguing but flawed collection from the veteran US duoMusicians: Bertram Turetzky (double bass) Nancy Turetzky (flute)Composer: Jacopo da Bologna, Alexander, B. Turetzky, Hauta-aho & FrickerSpirit Song is Bertram and Nancy Turetzky’s celebration of 50 years of marriage and music making, bringing together ...
