All Reviews articles – Page 211
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ArticleDvorák: Piano Trio in B flat major op.21. Fibich: Piano Trio in F minor. Martinu: Piano Trio no.2 in D minor
Musicians: Smetana TrioComposer: Dvorák, Fibich, Martinu The Piano Trio in F minor, perhaps the most compelling of Zdenek Fibich’s early chamber works, predates both Dvo?ák’s great Piano Trio in F minor (op.65) and its predecessor in B flat major (op.21), which also appears on ...
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Martin Bresnik: String Quartet no.2 ‘Bucephalus’, Piano Trio, The Bucket Rider, BE JUST!
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Flux Quartet, Jupiter Trio, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Lisa Moore (piano)Composer: MartinuBresnik This disc features a selection of chamber music by the American composer MartinuBresnik (b.1946), ‘spiritual advisor’ of the Bang on a Can generation of Gordon, Torke et ...
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ArticlePolish Spirit. Mlynarski: Violin Concerto no.2 in D major op.6. Karlowicz: Violin Concerto in A, op. 8. Chopin: Two Nocturnes op.9 (arr. Debski)
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Nigel Kennedy (violin) Polish Chamber Orchestra, Jacek Kaspszyk (conductor)Composer: Mlynarski, Karlowicz, Chopin Nigel Kennedy is one of the most genuinely inspired artists of our age, and he has always remained so, despite periodic posturings and some ropy ...
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ArticleBartók: String Quartets nos.2 & 5
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Parker QuartetComposer: Bartók It’s odd how recordings of this era of music – Bartók, Strauss and Vaughan Williams, say – have slowed down over the years. Both these performances are among the broadest I have heard, and sustaining ...
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ArticleErnst Reijseger: Do You Still: Gretchen am Spinnrade (Voice from Another World), Do You Still (River in the Rain), Blurb One, Marta (Monsoon), 8x3 4 T, Strabismo di Venere, Blurb Two, Passaggio, May t
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Ernst Reijseger (cello) Larissa Groeneveld (cello) Frank van de Laar (piano)Composer: Ernst ReijsegerThe title track of this album was chosen by director Werner Herzog for his film Rescue Dawn. This is perhaps the clue to cellist and composer Ernst Reijseger’s musical language, ...
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ArticleSchubert: Violin Sonata in A minor D385, Fantasy in C major D934, Rondo brillant in B minor D895
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Dimitri Hadjipetkov (violin) Yuan Sheng (piano)Composer: Schubert Dimitri Hadjipetkov began violin studies in his native Bulgaria at the age of five, and after a fledgling European concert career moved to the United States in 1997 to work with ...
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ArticleJind?ich Feld: String Quartet no.4, Clarinet Quintet, Two Pieces for cello, Viola Concerto
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Pražák Quartet, Raphaël Oleg (viola) Michal Ka?nka (cello) Jan Mach (clarinet) Jaromír Klepá?c (piano) Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimír Válek (conductor)Composer: Jind?ich Feld Jind?ich Feld (b.1925) is one of the foremost Czech composers of his generation, and if Bartók’s ...
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ArticleNicholas Altstaedt. Works by Beethoven, Webern, Bach, Ligeti and Stravinsky
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Nicholas Altstaedt (cello) Franco Piemontesi (piano)Composer: Beethoven, Webern, Bach, Ligeti and Stravinsky This uncommonly well-planned and recorded recital may have arisen from a competition winner (of the 2005 Deutschermusikwettbewerb) wishing to display the range of his abilities, but it ...
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ArticleAsturiana. Songs from Spain and Argentina: arrangements of works by Falla, Granados, Guastavino, Ginastera, Montsalvatge and López Buchardo
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Kim Kashkashian (viola) Robert Levin (piano) Composer: Falla, Granados, Guastavino, Ginastera, Montsalvatge and López Buchardo Having grown up in Argentina, I have known these songs since childhood, and later played the odd one on the viola as well. I ...
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ArticleMozart: Le nozze di Figaro (excerpts, arr. string quartet)
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Marcolini QuartetComposer: Mozart This release of string quartet arrangements of key extracts from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro perpetuates the Marcolini Quartet’s reputation for unusual programming. Using printed parts published by Simrock (Bonn, 1799) and housed in the ...
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ArticleFriedrich Cerha: Cello Concerto. Schreker: Chamber Symphony
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Heinrich Schiff (cello) Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, Peter Eötvös (conductor) Composer: Friedrich Cerha, Schreker Vienna is central to this disc. Viennese Friedrich Cerha’s Cello Concerto started life as a commission for the Wien Modern Festival in 1989, while ...
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ArticleMartinu: Concerto for violin & flute, Duo concertante for two violins*, Concerto in D major for two violins†
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Bohuslav Matoušek (violin) Régis Pasquier (violin)* Jennifer Koh (violin)† Janine Thomsen (flute) Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood (conductor) Composer: MartinuMartinu’s list of compositions includes 16 operas, a dozen ballets, innumerable orchestral scores, over a hundred choral works, and most staggering of ...
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ArticleSibelius: Violin Concerto. Lindberg: Violin Concerto
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)Composer: Sibelius, Lindberg There’s something about violin concertos that has composers reaching for the soft soap. Is it that the challenge of balancing the solo instrument with an orchestra ...
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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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ArticleBrahms: Violin Sonata no.2 in A major op.100. Prokofiev: Violin Sonata no.2 in D major op.94a. Wieniawski: Variations on an original theme in A major op.15. Foster: Old Folks at Home (arr.Kreisler), J
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Alexander Gilman (violin) Marina Seltenreich (piano)Composer: Brahms, Prokofiev, Wieniawski, FosterThe 25-year-old German violinist Alexander Gilman won the loan of the 1684 ‘Croall’ Stradivari and the chance to make this debut CD as victor in the 2006 WestLB Music Competition and Instrument Award. ...
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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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ArticleSchulhoff: String Quartet no.2, String Quartet op.25
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Schulhoff QuartetComposer: Schulhoff Erwin Schulhoff’s Second Quartet featured on the landmark recording by Germany’s Petersen Quartet (Capriccio). The Schulhoff Quartet stands in the same splendid tradition: cellist Jonás Krejcí, who studied with William Pleeth and Lynn Harrell, has played ...
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ArticleVivaldi: Violin Concertos in D major RV206, E minor RV275, A major RV339, B flat major RV377, D major RV227 & B flat major RV381
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Marco Pedrona (violin) Ensemble GuidantusComposer: Vivaldi Marco Pedrona brings not only virtuosity but also warmth and musicality to these performances, sensitively accompanied by the five other members of Ensemble Guidantus. His playing is fresh and resilient in the opening ...
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ArticleBoccherini: Cello Concerto in B flat major (arr. Grützmacher). Mozart: Horn Concerto no.3 in E flat major K447 (arr. Fischer). Kodály: Sonata for solo cello op.8, Duo for violin and cello op.7, Cello
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: János Starker (cello) Arnold Eidus (violin) Otto Herz (piano) Castle Hill Festival Orchestra, Maximilian Pilzer (conductor)Composer: Boccherini, Mozart, Kodály, Bartók, WeinerThese recordings, made in New York in the early 1950s, did much to secure for János Starker his international reputation. ...
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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 ...
