All Reviews articles – Page 212
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ArticleBrahms: Violin Sonatas in G major op.78, in A major op.100 & in D minor op.108, Scherzo WoO2
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Antje Weithaas (violin) Silke Avenhaus (piano) Composer: BrahmsAntje Weithaas and Silke Avenhaus strike a finely judged balance between rhetoric and lyricism from the very opening of the G major Sonata and subordinate their technical prowess to the music throughout. ...
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ArticleJ.S. Bach: Six Suites for solo cello BWV1007–12
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Composer: Bach Lightness and elegance are the keywords in these interpretations by French cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras. Although he has performed the works on a Baroque cello, he favours a modern set-up here for his ...
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Kraus: Violin Concerto in C major VB151, Olympie (incidental music) VB33, Azire (ballet music) VB18
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Takako Nishizaki (violin) New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Uwe Grodd (conductor)Composer: Kraus The only surviving concertante work of Joseph Kraus (1756–92), the Violin Concerto in C major (1777), is substantial in both length and content. It incorporates moments of ...
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ArticleDvorák: Terzetto in C major op.74, Piano Quartet in E flat major op.87. Beethoven: Piano Quartet in E flat major op.16
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Composer: Dvorák, BeethovenDvo?ák’s Terzetto, for two violins and viola, gives a clue to the strengths if also the limitations of these three readings by the respected Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society. Their ...
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ArticleWieniawski: Violin concerto no.2 in D minor. Szymanowski: Violin concerto no.2 op.61. Lutoslawski: Chain 2
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Benjamin Schmid (violin) Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Raiskin (conductor) Composer: Wieniawski, Szymanowski, LutoslawskiBenjamin Schmid is never less than highly impressive in this chronologically arranged programme, featuring three celebrated Polish works for violin. Yet one senses a special identification with ...
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ArticlePaganini:‘Non piu mesto’ from Rossini’s ‘La cenerentola’ (arr. Kreisler), Caprice no.24 in A minor (arr. Kreisler), Variations on ‘God Save the King’, Cantabile (arr. Kinsky & Rothschild), etc
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Ning Feng (violin) Thomas Hoppe (piano)Composer: PaganiniBorn in Chengdu, China, Ning Feng enjoyed a string of competition successes while studying variously with Weiman Hu (Sichuan), Hu Kun (London) and Antje Weithaas (Berlin), before winning the 51st Paganini International Completion in 2006. His ...
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ArticleBritten: Cello Sonata, Suite no.3 for solo cello. Shostakovich: Cello Sonata
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Karine Georgian (cello) Jeremy Young (piano)Composer: Britten, Shostakovich Karine Georgian is an established cellist and pedagogue who, on the evidence of this release, deserves a wider audience. These three works – all written for her teacher Rostropovich – ...
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ArticleTishchenko: Concerto for Violin, Piano & String Orchestra, Dante-Symphony no.3 ‘Hell: Circles 7–9’
The Strad Issue: Febraury 2008Musicians: Alexander Rozhdestvensky (violin) Viktoria Postnikova (piano) String Orchestra of St Petersburg, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)Composer: Tishchenko The main event here is an all-too-painfully illustrative symphony (2001) concerned with the deepest circles of Hell in Dante’s Inferno that ...
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ArticleMozart: Violin Sonatas in G major K301, in E minor K304, in F major K376 & in B flat major K454
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Aaron Berofsky (violin) Thomas Sauer (piano)Composer: Mozart Aaron Berofsky argues in the CD booklet that Mozart described this group of works as ‘Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin’ out of convention, which didn’t prevent his later scores bringing the two ...
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ArticleSchumann: Piano Quintet in E flat major op.44. Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major (Trout), Die Forelle
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Atlantis Ensemble, Max von Egmond (baritone) Composer: Schumann, SchubertIt is said that Schumann wept aloud when he heard news of Schubert’s death. Hence this pairing is apt, for this epitome of 19th-century Romantics had the pantheon of Haydn, Mozart, ...
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ArticleTaneyev: String Quartets vol.1: no.1 in B flat minor op. 4 & no.3 in D minor op.7
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Carpe Diem QuartetComposer: Taneyev It has taken us a long time to come round to Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915). Melodiya made several Soviet-era recordings, and aficionados know something of his magnificent opera The Oresteia, but otherwise his symphonic output and ...
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ArticleBach: Sonatas for violin and keyboard nos.1–6 BWV1014–19
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Richard Tognetti (violin) Daniel Yeadon (viola da gamba/cello) Neal Peres Da Costa (harpsichord/organ)Composer: BachSeveral fine period-instrument recordings of this glorious music currently grace the catalogue, including those by Rachel Podger (Channel), Andrew Manze (Harmonia Mundi), Giuliano Carmignola (Sony), Elizabeth Wallfisch ...
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ArticleKorngold: Piano Trio in D major op. 1, Suite op. 23*
Musicians: Trio Parnassus, Matthias Wollong (violin)* Composer: KorngoldThe progress of Erich Korngold (1897–1957) from Viennese child prodigy to Hollywood golden-age film composer is remarkable. Yet his ‘serious’ output spanned all this period, soaring to new heights with his violin and cello concertos.Many other works ...
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ArticleBrahms: ‘Double’ Concerto in A minor op.102, Clarinet Quintet in B minor op.115
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Renaud Capuçon (violin) Gautier Capuçon (cello) Paul Meyer (clarinet) Capuçon Quartet, Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)Composer: Brahms Gautier Capuçon’s first cello entry sets the scene for an affectionate view of the ‘Double’ Concerto, very much ...
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ArticleDvorák: Cello Concerto in B minor op.104, Symphonic Variations op.78
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Pieter Wispelwey (cello) Budapest Festival orchestra, Iván Fischer (conductor)Composer: Dvorák During these hard-pressed financial days it’s a luxury to re-record the same concerto as Wispelwey has done with this work. His first, made with Lawrence Renes and the ...
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ArticleMozart: Sinfonia concertante in E flat major K364, Concertone in C major K190*, Rondo in C major K373
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Julia Fischer (violin) Gordan Nikolitch (violin/viola) Herre Jan Stegenga (cello)* Hans Meyer (oboe)* Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg (conductor) Composer: MozartJulia Fischer again demonstrates her outstanding technical command, musical perception and expressive purpose in these compelling Mozart performances. Her ...
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ArticleGraham Whettam: String Quartets nos.2 & 4, Oboe Quartet no.2
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Carducci Quartet, Jennie-Lee Keetley (oboe)Composer: Graham Whettam The two string quartets here were written over 30 years apart. The Carducci Quartet premiered the Fourth Quartet in 2001, while the First had appeared in 1968. There is a meditative quality ...
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ArticleElgar: Violin Concerto in B minor op.61, Serenade for Strings op.20.
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: James Ehnes (violin) Philharmonia Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor) Composer: ElgarAndrew Davis and James Ehnes do not fall into the trap of exaggerating the wide mood swings of the first movement, and they never allow the tension levels in the ...
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ArticleTchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D op.35. Gang ChenZhanhao He: The Butterfly Lovers: Concerto for Violin
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Gil Shaham (violin) Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui (conductor)Composer: Tchaikovsky, Gang ChenZhanhao He: In terms of scorching commitment, Isaac Stern’s CBS/Sony account of the Tchaikovsky with the Philadelphia Orchestra in meltdown under their long-time music director Eugene Ormandy ...
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ArticleDavid Matthews: Winter Remembered. Alwyn: Pastoral Fantasia. John McCabe: Concerto funebre. Holst: Lyric Movement. Maconchy: Romance
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola) Orchestra Nova, George Vass (conductor)Composer: David Matthews, Alwyn, John McCabe, Holst, Maconchy Is there a better British violist than Sarah-Jane Bradley? I write just a week after hearing her play a demanding recital and after several ...
