All Reviews articles – Page 194
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ArticleBruch: Violin Concertos no.2 in D minor op.44 & no.3 in D minor op.58
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Maxim Fedotov (violin) Russian Philharmonic Orchestra/Dmitry YablonskyComposer: Bruch To those of us brought up on the famous Menuhin LP of the Mendelssohn E minor and Bruch G minor concertos, comparisons between the two composers are inevitable. Bruch’s heritage creates a ...
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ArticleRussian Works for Violin and Viola. Kabalevsky: Improvisation op.21. Volkonsky: Viola Sonata. Khandoshkin: Solo Violin Sonata in G minor. Prokofiev: Five Pieces from ‘Cinderella’. Stravinsky: Chanson
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Lydia Mordkovitch (violin/viola) Nicholas Walker (piano) Julian Milford (piano)*Composer: Kabalevsky, Volkonsky, Khandoshkin, Prokofiev, StravinskyTo hear Lydia Mordkovitch at the peak of her interpretative powers is like being thrown back half a century when the likes of David Oistrakh, Isaac Stern ...
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ArticleVivaldi: Violin Concertos vol.3: RV210, RV268, RV307, RV312, RV333, RV350 & RV352
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Duilio M. Galfetti (violin) I Barocchisti/Diego FasolisComposer: Vivaldi This disc delivers more than it promises. The fashionable packaging (with a rather fallacious comparison between Vivaldi’s music and ‘swing’ in the booklet notes) prepared me for something over-marketed and mediocre, ...
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ArticleKorngold: Violin Concerto in D major op.35, Schauspiel Overture, Much Ado About Nothing Suite
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Philippe Quint (violin) Mineria Symphony Orchestra/Carlos Miguel PrietoComposer: Korngold Although released at the same time as Nikolaj Znaider’s high-powered coupling of Korngold’s Hollywood-imbued Violin Concerto with the Brahms (reviewed last month), Philippe Quint’s account is more than just a ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Violin Concerto in D major op.61 BERG Violin Concerto
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Haydn Trio EisenstadtArabella Steinbacher (violin) WDR Symphony Orchestra Köln/Andris NelsonsComposer: Beethoven Very few recorded violinists have possessed the ideal combination of cantabile purity and angelic intensity for the Beethoven Concerto: Leonid Kogan, Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Christian ...
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ArticleBaroque Cello Illuminations. Works by Eccles, De Fesch, Vivaldi, Couperin, Sammartini/Berteau & Bach
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Angela East (cello) Ruth Alford (Baroque cello) Howard Beach (harpsichord) Composer: Eccles, De Fesch, Vivaldi, Couperin, SamMartinu/Berteau & Bach Angela East offers an exciting and imaginative showcase for a selection of exam chestnuts, some bypassed in concerts ...
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ArticleCeltic Twilight. Ball: Violin Concerto, Five Bagatelles for wind trio, From the Hebrides, Celtic Twilight
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Thomas Gould (violin) Paul Arden-Taylor (oboe/cor anglais/recorder) Leslie Craven (clarinet) Celia Birkinshaw (bassoon) Emerald Concert Orchestra/Christopher Ball Composer: BallThe work of principal interest for readers in this fine collection of works by the English composer Christopher Ball (b.1936) is the Violin ...
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ArticleTreble & Bass. Kleiberg: Violin Concerto, Double Bass Concerto
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Marianne Thorsen (violin) Göran Sjölin (double bass) Trondheim Symphony Orchestra/Daniel ReussComposer: Kleiberg If all contemporary violin concertos were as accessible as this, concert promoters would have an easier time of it. Norwegian composer Ståle Kleiberg doesn’t necessarily push any boundaries, ...
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ArticleNess: Mad Cap Tootling, Wet Blubber Soup, Gust, Low Jive
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Peter Herrestal (violin) Catherine Bullock (viola) Øystein Birkeland (cello) Dan Styffe (double bass) Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Rolf Gupta, Peter Szilvay Composer: NessThe music of the contemporary Norwegian composer Jon Øivind Ness is marked by a strong engagement with pop and rock techniques ...
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ArticleBridge: Piano Quintet, Noveletten, Rhapsody Trio, Lament for two violas, Cherry Ripe, Sir Roger de Coverley
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Bridge Quartet, Michael Dussek (piano)Composer: Bridge An outstanding recital of Bridge chamber works, ranging from those twin miniature ditties Cherry Ripe and Sir Roger de Coverley, to the glorious 1904 D minor Piano Quintet, originally in four movements but reduced ...
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ArticleC. Schumann: Romanzen. Holliger: Romancendres, Gesänge der Frühe
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Christoph Richter (cello) Dénes Várjon (piano) SWR Stuttgart Vocal Ensemble Stuttgart, SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra/Heinz Holliger Composer: C. Schumann, HolligerThis ambitious disc pairs Clara Schumann’s Romances, originally for violin and piano, with Heinz Holliger’s Romancendres, reflections on Robert ...
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ArticleWhitty: thirty-nine pages
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Darragh Morgan (violin) Mary Dullea (piano) Composer: WhittyI hadn’t come across composer Paul Whitty, but the booklet note informs that he is director of Sonic Art Research at Oxford Brookes, and, more startlingly, his work has found its way into ...
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ArticleGarland: String Quartets no.1 ‘In Praise of Poor Scholars’ & no.2 ‘Crazy Cloud’
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Apartment HouseComposer: Garland The music on this disc is deceptively simple: tonal, consonant, full of glorious melodies and glowing harmonies, it nevertheless repays repeated listening and draws the listener ever deeper in, slowly revealing its highly worked craftsmanship. Its composer, ...
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ArticleHindemith: Complete viola music vol.1: Viola Sonatas op.11 no.4, op.25 no.4 & ‘1939, Meditation from ‘Nobilissima visione’
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Lawrence Power (viola) Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)Composer: Hindemith Paul Hindemith wrote his viola compositions for his own use as a concert artist. Accordingly, they reflect his personal playing style, one characterised by a taut rhythmic sense and the avoidance of any ...
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ArticleAntheil: Lithuanian Night, Six Little Pieces, String Quartets nos.1, 2 & 3
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Del Sol QuartetComposer: AntheilThe quirky character of avant-garde composer George Antheil is laid bare in this survey of his complete string quartets, with compellingly detailed biographical notes by musicologist Mauro Piccinini. Born in New Jersey, Antheil spent much time in Paris where ...
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ArticleBach's Suites for Solo Cello BWV1007–12
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Tatjana Vassiljeva (cello)Composer: Bach The Bach cello suites beckon to all cellists as Everest does to mountaineers. Part of the compelling attraction of both performing and listening to these works lies in the spiritual and ethereal qualities encased in the ...
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ArticlePleyel: Violin Concerto in D major Benton 103/103A, Symphonies concertantes in B flat major Benton 112 & A major Benton 114
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: David Perry, Isabella Lippi (violin) Victoria Chiang (viola) Baltimore Chamber Orchestra/Markand Thakar (conductor)Composer: Pleyel David Perry gives an assured account of Pleyel’s D major Violin Concerto, combining its original first two movements with a later substitute finale (the original finale ...
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ArticleBeethoven: String Quintet in C minor op.104, Duo in E flat major for viola & cello WoO32 ‘Eyeglass’, Piano Quartet in E flat major op.16
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Nash EnsembleComposer: Beethoven Like many sequels, this follow-up to the Nash’s enjoyable disc of the two proper Beethoven string quintets (CDA 67693) is only partially successful. The main problem is op.104, one of those cases where Beethoven merely corrected ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Piano Trio in E flat major op.70 no.2. Schubert: Notturno in E flat major D897. Schumann: Piano Trio no.3 in G minor op.110
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: ATOS Trio Composer: Beethoven, Schubert, SchumannThe programme is unhackneyed, the playing is fresh and skilful, with excellent string tone, and the recordings are excellent. The young ATOS Trio from Germany made this American CD as part of its reward ...
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ArticleFauré: Berceuse for violin & orchestra (orch. Gaubert), Élégie for cello & orchestra, Violin Concerto, Romance for cello & orchestra, Ballade op.19 for piano & orchestra, Fantaisie for flute & orchest
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabedian (violin) Henri Demarquette (cello) Juliette Hurel (flute) Jérôme Ducros (piano) Orchestre de Bretagne/Moshe AtzmonComposer: FauréFauré emerges from the drawing room in this interesting collection of concertino works, many better known with piano accompaniments. Although Fauré was not in his element ...
