All Reviews articles – Page 196
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ArticleBach's Cello Suites BWV1007–12
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Sigiswald Kuijken (shoulder cello)Composer: Bach Sigiswald Kuijken decided some years ago that the instrument for which Bach wrote his cello suites was neither the instrument we know today nor the viola pomposa he is sometimes credited with inventing, but a ...
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ArticleLegacy of the Hollywood Composers. Korngold: String Quartet no.2 in E flat major op.26. Rózsa: String Quartet no.2 op.38. Rota: Invenzioni
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Weber Quartet Composer: Korngold, Rózsa, RotaThe Swedish-based Weber Quartet deserves full marks for enterprise with this programme of music by composers best-known for their film scores. Only the Korngold piece has tangible links with Hollywood, in that his style remained ...
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ArticleLutoslawski: Recitativo e arioso, Subito, Partita. Szymanowski: Myths op.30. Janácek: Violin Sonata
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Ariadne Daskalakis (violin) Miri Yampolsky (piano)Composer: Lutoslawski, Szymanowski, Janácek Lutos?awski’s entire output for violin and piano amounts to less than 25 minutes, and only the Partita can be regarded as a score of major significance. Commissioned in 1984 by ...
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ArticleDohnányi: Cello Sonata in B flat minor op.8. Kodály: Cello Sonata op.4. Strauss: Cello Sonata in F major op.6
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Nancy Green (cello) Tannis Gibson (piano) Composer: Dohnányi, Kodály, StraussNancy Green brings a boldly dramatic delivery to these three fine sonatas, with fluent and forthright performances that are enhanced by her clear and vocally orientated feeling for the musical line. ...
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ArticleMatteis: Ayrs for the violin
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Hélène Schmitt (violin) Gaetano Nasillo (cello) Eric Bellocq (guitar/lute) Jörg-Andreas Bötticher (harpsichord/organ)Composer: Matteis Nicola Matteis was a key figure in the development of violin playing in 17th-century England, providing, in Roger North’s words, ‘the means of settling ...
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ArticleFrançaix: Les inestimables chroniques du Grand Gargantua, L’heure du berger, Sérénade B.E.A.
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: La PietÁ /Angèle Dubeau, Albert Millaire (reciter)Composer: Françaix Jean Françaix (1912–97) perpetuated the Gallic traditions of Les Six to the end of the last century with a nonchalantly deft style and delicious sense of irony. A brilliant pianist and highly ...
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ArticleCinema
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Laurent Korcia (violin) Michael Wendeberg, Matthieu Gonet (piano/conductor) Vincent Peirani (accordion) Pierre Boussaguet (double bass) Fuzjko Hemming (piano) European Chamber Orchestra Lochen, plus additional musicians Composer: VariousIf ever a disc was made for shameless wallowing, this is the one. French violinist ...
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ArticlePurcell: Complete fantazias
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Fretwork Composer: PurcellAmazingly, Henry Purcell’s fantazia’s in four parts were all written in one concentrated burst of creativity, the first seven dating from almost consecutive days of June 1680, with the remaining two coming from August of the same year. The canon ...
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ArticleLight
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Ben Powell (violin) Cedric Hanriot (piano) Richard Greenblatt (vibes) Jon Sosin (guitar) Aaron Darrell, David Hollender (double bass) Devin Drebka (drums) Composer: VariousCheltenham-born Ben Powell is still a student in jazz composition at Berklee College. This assured debut recording, produced from a ...
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ArticleSchumann: Soiréestücke op.73, Adagio and Allegro op.70, Violin Sonata no.3 in A minor (arr. Isserlis), Abendlied op.85 no.12 (arr. Joachim), Three Romances op.94, Fünf Stücke im Volkston op.102
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Steven Isserlis (cello) Dénes Várjon (piano)Composer: SchumannIsserlis, a self-confessed ‘Schumann nut’, here revisits much of the repertoire he included with his 1997 Schumann Concerto recording for BMG, with a few additions and a new pianist. He also has the advantage of not ...
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ArticleMichi: 9 Death Haiku
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Kono Michi (violin/singer) Satoshi Takeishi (percussion)Composer: Michi Kono Michi is a New York-based concert violinist and erstwhile Silk Road Ensemble collaborator, and has come up with this intriguing and exquisitely beautiful setting of Japanese deathbed haikus.If you listen to this ...
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ArticleDubois: Violin Sonata in A major, Cello Sonata in D major, Ballade, Nocturne, Mélodie, Andante appassionato, Andante cantabile, Méditation, Scherzetto, Cavatine
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Anne Robert (violin) Benoît Loiselle (cello) Stéphane Lemelin (piano)Composer: Dubois Generously timed (a shade over 81 minutes), imposingly engineered and played with devoted spontaneity, this is a captivating recital that turns out to be rather more than the sum ...
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ArticleMusic from Down Under. Sculthorpe: Baltimore Songlines. Conyngham: Playground. Knehans: rive. Mills: Four Miniatures. Marshall: Three Aspects of Spring
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Verdehr Trio Composer: Sculthorpe, Conyngham, Knehans, Mills, MarshallMost of these works, all commissioned by or for the Verdehr clarinet trio, are from this century – only Richard Mills’s Four Miniatures date from the last millennium – but ...
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ArticleBoccherini: String Trio in D major op.14 no.4, String Quartet in C minor op.41 no.1, String Quintet in C minor op.45 no.1, String Sextet in F minor op.23
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Europa Galante Composer: BoccheriniThe musicians of Europa Galante here offer strongly projected accounts of a cross-section of Boccherini’s chamber music for four different combinations of stringed instruments. Unsurprisingly, principal violinist Fabio Biondi and first cellist Maurizio Naddeo are the major ...
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ArticleDancla: Petite école de la mélodie op.123. Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonata no.1 in D minor op.75. Massenet: Méditation from ‘Thaïs’
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Guido Rimonda (violin) Cristina Canziani (piano)Composer: Dancla, Saint-Saëns, MassenetListening even blindfolded you would immediately identify Guido Rimonda as a player in the Italian tradition. His lithe, relatively lightweight, cantabile, seamlessly pure sound, sustained by a fast, narrow vibrato is straight out of ...
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ArticleArthur Butterworth: Viola Concerto op.82, Symphonies no.1 op.15* & no.4 op.72, plus interview feature
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola) Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Arthur Butterworth, Hallé Orchestra/John Barbirolli* Composer: Arthur ButterworthAs so many works of Mancunian composer Arthur Butterworth, the Viola Concerto was several years in the making before its premiere in 1993. Butterworth, who as a student ...
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ArticleDuo Virtuoso. Mozart: Duo in G major K423. Boccherini: Allegretto spiritoso from Sonata in D major HAYDN (attrib.) Poco adagio from Duo in D major Hob.VI:D1. Beethoven: Duo in C major WoO 27. Kodály:
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Elaris DuoComposer: Mozart, Boccherini, Haydn (attrib.), Beethoven, Halvorsen, KodályIn the 18th and early 19th centuries music for instrumental duos grew in popularity, much of it composed because a keyboard remained the domain of the wealthy. To maximise the sale of sheet music ...
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ArticlePaganini: 24 Caprices for solo violin op.1
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Tanja Becker-Bender (violin)Composer: PaganiniThe young German violinist Tanja Becker-Bender, who has just been touring Britain, thoroughly deserves the chance to record these cornerstones of the repertoire. She is captured quite close-up in a Stuttgart chapel – you hear intakes of breath – ...
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ArticleRode: Violin Concertos no.7 in A minor op.9, no.10 in B minor op.19 & no.13 in F sharp minor/A major op.posth.
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Friedemann Eichhorn (violin) South West German Radio Orchestra, Kaiserslautern/Nicolás Pasquet Composer: RodePierre Rode (1774–1830) is chiefly remembered as one of the trio of Viotti disciples who founded the violin department of the Paris Conservatoire. His violin concertos owe a considerable ...
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ArticleHallgrímsson: Cello Concerto op.30, Herma op.17
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Truls Mørk (cello) Scottish Chamber Orchestra/John StorgŠrdsComposer: Hallgrímsson This disc is a real find – some startlingly fresh music in exceptional performances, and a rich, crystal-clear recording. Icelander Hafliði Hallgrímsson (b.1941) was principal cellist of the Scottish Chamber ...
