All Reviews articles – Page 207
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ArticleBrahms: 21 Hungarian Dances (arr. Joachim). Joachim: Variations in E minor
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Hagai Shaham (violin) Arnon Erez (piano)Composer: Brahms, Joachim The most important work here is the one advertised in smaller type on the cover, Joachim’s E minor Variations, a magnificent assemblge of an introduction, a theme and 18 brief variations ...
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ArticleHommage Á Eugène Ysaÿe. Ysaÿe: Solo Violin Sonatas op.27, Sonata for two violins, Variations sur le 24e Caprice de Paganini, Caprice d’après l’étude en forme de valse, Exil!
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Ingolf Turban (violin) Kolja Lessing (violin/piano) I virtuosi di PaganiniComposer: YsaÿeThe six unaccompanied sonatas which Ysaÿe dedicated to violinist friends form the backbone of this interesting compilation, which marks the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth. They alternate with piano-accompanied pieces and ...
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ArticleElgar: Violin Sonata in E minor op.82, Serenade (arr. Szigeti), Adieu (arr. Szigeti). Grieg: Violin Sonata no.3 in C minor op.43 no.3, Two Brown Eyes, You Cannot Grasp the Waves’ Eternal Course
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Charlie Siem (violin), Andrei Korobeinikov (piano)Composer: Elgar, GriegIn his fine booklet note, Charlie Siem draws interesting parallels between Grieg and Elgar, who composed the violin sonatas in this recital during what might be termed their respective ‘late’ periods. This appears to have ...
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ArticleSchubert: String Quartets in C minor D703 & in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’, Quartettsatz
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Jerusalem Quartet Composer: SchubertFew things in music are more cheering and exciting than a young ensemble renewing old warhorses with skill, vigour and musicality. With these two performances, the Jerusalem Quartet reaches a standard that few predecessors have achieved.The ...
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ArticleTangos y Historias. Works by Piazzolla, Gsmonti, Ibert, Albéniz & Falla
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Friedemann Eichhorn (violin) Thomas Müller-Pering (guitar) Composer: Piazzolla, Gsmonti, Ibert, Albéniz & Falla The Piazzolla bandwagon keeps rolling, with his compositions being recorded in the most varied arrangements. If after a while Piazzolla’s pieces do betray the ...
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ArticleA Very Nice Album
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Nigel Kennedy Quintet Composer: VariousHaving ventured into partnership with Blue Note in 2006, Kennedy has taken his new Polish jazz quintet back to EMI for this double album. Disc 1, ‘Melody’, runs through a panoply of diluted world influences, ...
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ArticleString Quartets by Opera Composers. Puccini: Crisantemi. Respighi: Il tramonto. Wagner: Albumblatt. Humperdinck: String Quartet in C major. Verdi: String Quartet in E minor
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Leipzig Quartet, Ruth Ziesak (soprano)Composer: Puccini, Respighi, Wagner, Humperdinck, Verdi It was an inspired idea to put together a programme of string quartet music by composers who, with the exception of Respighi, are celebrated almost ...
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ArticleLidarti: Violin Concertos in D minor, in A major & in C major, Quartetto (Sinfonia) in G major
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Francesco D’Orazio (violin/director) Auser Musici Composer: LidartiBorn in Vienna into an Italian family, Christian Joseph Lidarti (1730–95) sought instruction in Italy from Niccolò Jommelli and settled eventually in Pisa. His violin concertos are not especially profound, but illustrate ...
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ArticlePeteris Vasks': Gr?mata cellam, Partita, Episodi e canto perpetuo
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin) David Geringas (cello) Kalle Randalu (piano)Composer: Peteris Vasks Lithuanian-born Rostropovich pupil David Geringas has been closely associated with the Latvian composer P?teris Vasks since the latter dedicated his 1993–4 Cello Concerto to ...
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Martin: Polyptique – Six Images de la Passion du Christ, Maria-Triptychon, Passacaille
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Muriel Cantoreggi (violin) Juliane Banse (soprano), German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Christop Poppen (conductor)Composer: Martinu This immensely rewarding disc includes two thrilling discoveries, plus one of the masterpieces of 20th-century music. Frank Martinursquo;s Passacaille is one of a number of works ...
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ArticleEsperanza Spalding: Esperanza
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Esperanza Spalding (double bass/electric bass/voice) Leo Genovese (piano) Otis Brown (drums) Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernández (drums) Jamey Haddad (percussion) Niño Josele (guitar) Donald Harrison (saxophone) Gretchen Parlato (backing vocals) Theresa Perez (backing vocals) Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet)Composer: Various Double ...
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ArticleBrahms and his Contemporaries, vol.2. Strauss: Cello Sonata in F major op.6. von Herzogenberg: Cello Sonata no.3. Brahms: Cello Sonata no.1 in E minor op.38
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Johannes Moser (cello) Paul Rivinius (piano)Composer: Strauss, von Herzogenberg, BrahmsOccasionally history deals composers an unfair hand. To some extent Heinrich von Herzogenberg comes into this category; certainly his strongest works such as the Second Piano Trio and First Cello Sonata are not ...
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ArticleBrahms: Clarinet Trio in A minor op.34 (viola version), Two Songs op.91, Viola Sonatas in F minor op.120 no.1 & in E flat major op.120 no.2
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Thomas Riebl (viola) Gustav Rivinius (cello) Michelle Breedt (contralto) Silke Avenhaus (piano)Composer: Brahms We are in danger of hearing Brahms’s Clarinet Trio more often on viola than on the wind instrument, but if all contenders are as ...
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ArticleSaint-Saëns: Cello Concerto no.1 in A minor. Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme. Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Andreas Brantelid (cello) Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)Composer: Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, SchumannTwenty-year-old Swedish cellist Andreas Brantelid is already in the public eye after winning both the 2006 Eurovision Young Musicians Competition and the 2007 Paulo International Cello Competition. Now EMI ...
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ArticlePaganini's Twenty-Four Caprices op.1
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Janusz Wawrowski (violin)Composer: PaganiniAny violinist who can commit the challenging bravura of Paganini’s caprices to CD with substantial accuracy, clarity and technical aplomb is worthy of praise. But Polish violinist Janusz Wawrowski goes one step further, performing these benchmarks for the aspiring ...
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ArticleGlazunov: Violin Concerto in A minor op.82. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major op.35, Souvenir d’un lieu cher op.42 (arr. Glazunov)
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Vadim Gluzman (violin) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor)Composer: Glazunov, Tchaikovsky Vadim Gluzman’s honeyed tone in the opening movement of the Glazunov Concerto transports us back to the days of David Oistrakh, recreating that innate Russian musicality of a previous generation. Yet ...
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ArticleSchubert: Quartettsatz in C minor D703, String Quintet in C major D956
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Artemis Quartet, Truls Mørk (cello)Composer: Schubert These are performances of great musical certainty. They have clearly been thought through in minute detail and have emerged as readings of character and confidence. A little too much so, perhaps, for ...
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ArticleRuth Posselt: American Violinist. Works by Bloch, Hill, Hindemith, Villa-Lobos, Prokofiev, Arbos, Khachaturian, Tchaikovsky & Barber
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Ruth Posselt (violin) Allan Sly (piano) Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky (conductor) plus other orchestras & conductorsComposer: Bloch, Hill, Hindemith, Villa-Lobos, Prokofiev, Arbos, Khachaturian, Tchaikovsky & BarberThe Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) audience, before whom Ruth Posselt (1911–2007) appeared a record 64 times, ...
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ArticleAmerican Fantasies. Works by Schoenberg, Cage, Schuller, Harris, Kirchner & Coulthardt
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Hasse Borup (violin) Mary Kathleen Ernst (piano) Composer: Schoenberg, Cage, Schuller, Harris, Kirchner & Coulthardt It is something of an irony that at a time when contemporary musical techniques have reached unprecedented levels of subtlety and insight, Schoenberg’s serial work is ...
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ArticleKlassik Meets Jazz. Works by Gerd Noack, Oliver Nelson, Berndt Luef, Iván Eröd, Gerhard Präsent, Hannes Kuegerl & Georg Arányi-Aschner
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: ALEA Quartet, Berndt Luef (vibraphone)Composer: Gerd Noack, Oliver Nelson, Berndt Luef, Iván Eröd, Gerhard Präsent, Hannes Kuegerl & Georg Arányi-Aschner‘Klassik meets Jazz’ could as well be called ‘String Quartet meets Vibraphone’. The pieces involving Berndt Luef are of the easy-listening variety: two ...
