All Reviews articles – Page 213
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ArticleHelen Callus. Works by Prokofiev (arr. Borissowsky), Vaughan Williams, Tchaikovsky, Wieniawski, Bridge, Swain, Tertis, Schumann & Chopin
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Hellen Callus (viola) Phillip Bush (piano)Composer: Prokofiev (arr. Borissowsky), Vaughan Williams, Tchaikovsky, Wieniawski, Bridge, Swain, Tertis, Schumann & Chopin For her latest recording, Helen Callus has researched the many transcriptions made by the ‘Father of the Russian Viola School’, Vadim ...
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ArticleGiger/Dähler. JS Bach: Towards Silence
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Paul Giger (violin) Marie-Louise Dähler (harpsichord)Composer: JS Bach If you’ve encountered any of Paul Giger’s ECM albums before now, and especially Ignis, you’ll know what I mean when I write of his unclassifiably sacred compositions. They’re not attached to ...
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ArticleViolin Songs. Works by Elgar, Berg, Bridge, Copland, Prokofiev, Massenet, L. Boulanger, Poulenc, Ravel, Schubert & Strauss
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Madeleine Mitchell (violin) Andrew Ball (piano) Elizabeth Watts (soprano)Composer: Elgar, Berg, Bridge, Copland, Prokofiev, Massenet, L. Boulanger, Poulenc, Ravel, Schubert & Strauss The innumerable miniatures and short salon pieces written for the violin don’t get much of an outing nowadays, aside from ...
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ArticleAn Italian Sojourn. Sonatas by Castello, Stradella, Marini, Locatelli, Corelli, Tartini, Handel & Veracini
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Trio SettecentoComposer: Castello, Stradella, Marini, Locatelli, Corelli, Tartini, Handel & VeraciniTrio Settecento’s period-instrument accounts conjure up an attractive intimacy, even if violinist Rachel Barton Pine occasionally reverts to an attack and technical vocabulary more appropriate to the present century. Nevertheless, these players ...
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ArticleRózsa: Violin Concerto, Sinfonia concertante for violin and cello
Musicians: Anastasia Khitruk (violin) Andrei Tchekmazov (cello) Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Yablonsky (conductor) Composer: RózsaMíklós Rózsa may have composed the music for over 90 films, but his ‘classical’ output reveals him on a par with his contemporary Erich Korngold. Indeed his solo string concertos, ...
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ArticleJanácek: String Quartets no.1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ & no.2 ‘Intimate Letters’. Szymanowski: String Quartets nos.1 & 2
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Schoenberg QuartetComposer: Janacek, SzymanowskiCoupling the Janá?ek and Szymanowski quartets together was an inspired idea, one that as far as I’m aware hasn’t been attempted on disc before. Both composers proudly carried the torch of their respective Moravian and Polish traditions into ...
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ArticleBeethoven: String Quartets op.59 nos.1-3 ‘Rasumovsky’, op.74 ‘Harp’ and op.95 ‘Serioso’
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Orion QuartetComposer: Beethoven The Orion Quartet here displays the fruits of more than two decades of exploration and insight into the music of Beethoven. Violinists Daniel and Todd Phillips swap around the leader’s role, but this is inconsequential as ...
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ArticleFauré: Cello Sonatas op.109 in D minor & op.117 in G minor, Romance op.69, Vocalise, Élégie op.24, Sérénade op.98, Papillon op.77, Sicilienne op.78, Berceuse op.16, Morceau de lecture*, Après un rêve
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Xavier Gagnepain (cello) Jérémie Billet (cello)* Jean-Michel Dayez (piano)Composer: FauréAll cellists have a special relationship with Gabriel Fauré at some point in their lives, whether it’s sitting on a school stage playing the Élégie or Sicilienne, or learning salon pieces like Après ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Violin Sonatas vol.2: Sonatas in A major op.12 no.2, in A minor op.23, in F major op.24 ‘Spring’ & in G major op.30 no.3
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Peter Cropper (violin) MartinuRoscoe (piano)Composer: Beethoven The new duo partnership formed last year between two long-established musicians is currently touring the UK presenting an on-going Beethoven violin sonata cycle to coincide with this series of recordings. That feel of ...
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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 ...
