Reviews – Page 169
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ArticleMiniatures Catalanes. Music by ToldrÁ , MossiÁ , Mompou, Gray, Blancafort, Cassadó, Granados, etc
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A rewarding trip to the Catalan salonMusicians: Kalina Macuta (violin) Daniel Blanch (piano)Composer: ToldrÁ , MossiÁ , Mompou, Gray, Blancafort, Cassadó, Granados, etcThese two discs, together with their excellent accompanying booklet, provide a short résumé of the wealth of music for violin ...
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ArticleMozart: Violin Concertos no.1 in B flat major K207, no.2 in D major K211 & no.4 in D major K218, Rondo in C major K371, Adagio in E major K261
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: The second and concluding part of a refined Mozart concerto cycleMusicians: Richard Tognetti (violin/director) Australian Chamber OrchestraComposer: MozartThe Australian Chamber Orchestra has a justly renowned reputation, particularly in its years under Sydney Conservatorium-trained Richard Tognetti, the group’s concertmaster since 1989. These are ...
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ArticleNozeman: Sonatas for violin and basso continuo op.1
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Generic Baroque sonatas enlivened by a rich array of continuo coloursMusicians: Antoinette Lohmann (violin) Furor MusicusComposer: NozemanThese six conservative sonatas (c.1724) by the German-born Dutch composer Jacob Nozeman (1693–1745) comprise a mix of church and largely chamber sonata movement types. Antoinette Lohmann ...
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ArticleOne More Day
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Short but sweet: a meeting of different popular styles Musicians: Kono Michi: Michi Wiancko (violin/vocals) Mike Sorensen Small (guitars/bass) Grant Pringle (drums/percussion)Composer: VariousThis EP of just four songs offers a nicely sized taste of Kono Michi’s rather original musical world, in which ...
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ArticlePaper Airplane
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A country disc that could have made more of the fiddleMusicians: Alison Krauss & Urban StationComposer: VariousCountry singer and fiddler Alison Krauss has just turned 40 and has been performing with Union Station for over half of her life, although this is ...
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ArticleRautavaara: Lost Landscapes, Summer Thoughts, April Lines, Notturno e danza, Variétude, Dithyrambos, Pelimannit
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Little sense of indulgent nostalgia in violin works by a Finnish master looking backMusicians: Pekka Kuusisto (violin) Paavali Jumppanen (piano)Composer: RautavaaraLost Landscapes (2005) conveys the memories of a septuagenarian recalling student days spent in America’s Tanglewood summer school, reliving his period immersed ...
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ArticleValls: Music for double bass and piano
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Revival of bass music by a Bottesini acolyteMusicians: Leon Bosch (double bass) Sung-Suk Kang (piano)Composer: VallsThe Spanish bassist–composer Pedro Valls was directly influenced by the virtuoso salon style of Giovanni Bottesini. His experiences of Bottesini’s performances in Barcelona and his instruction from ...
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ArticleBach: Goldberg Variations (arr. Sitkovetsky)
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: An account of Bach’s masterpiece that pays tribute to its keyboard originsMusicians: Leopold String TrioComposer: Bach (arr. Sitkovetsky)Dmitry Sitkovetsky arranged Bach’s great keyboard work for string trio with a delicate, sensitive hand, an approach followed in turn by the Leopold String Trio ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Cello Sonatas nos.1–5, Horn Sonata in F major (arr. cello), Cello Sonata in E flat major, Variations on a Theme from Handel’s ‘Judas Maccabaeus’, Variations on Mozart’s ‘Bei Männern’, Varia
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A compelling collection of Beethoven’s complete music for cello and pianoMusicians: David Geringas (cello) Ian Fountain (piano)Composer: BeethovenDavid Geringas’s performances of the Beethoven cello sonatas reveal exceptional attention to detail and a sure sense of structural architecture. Part of his ...
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ArticleBirth of the Violin. Works for solo violin by Westhoff, Biber, Pisendel, Geminiani, Matteis, Guillemain & Rust
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Variable success in an exploration of early violin repertoireMusicians: Rebekka Hartmann (violin)Composer: Westhoff, Biber, Pisendel, Geminiani, Matteis, Guillemain & RustFew successfully combine stylish Baroque string playing with an itinerant career as a concerto soloist in Classical and Romantic repertoire. However, Rebekka Hartmann ...
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ArticleCapricho Latino. Works by Albéniz, Cordero, Espejo, Quiroga, Ysaÿe, González, White, Tárrega, Rodrigo, Serebrier, Piazzolla & Ridout
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Description: The American violinist explores the rich seam of solo repertoireMusicians: Rachel Barton Pine (violin) Héctor Elizondo (narrator)Composer: Albéniz, Cordero, Espejo, Quiroga, Ysaÿe, González, White, Tárrega, Rodrigo, Serebrier, Piazzolla & RidoutAs an impoverished student unable to afford a rehearsal pianist, Rachel ...
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ArticleBritish Women Composers. Smyth: Violin Sonata in A minor op.7. Maconchy: Three Preludes. Wieniawska (Poldowski): Violin Sonata in D minor. Tate: Triptych. Barns: La chasse
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A welcome survey of violin music by women composersMusicians: Clare Howick (violin) Sophia Rahman (pianoComposer: Smyth, Maconchy, Wieniawska (Poldowski), Tate, BarnsEthel Smyth’s 1887 violin sonata was rejected by everyone after its Leipzig premiere, including Joachim. Clare Howick and Sophia Rahman, performing with ...
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ArticleBritten: Cello Suites nos.1-3
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Dramatically etched performances of Britten’s three solo cello suitesMusicians: Daniel Müller-Schott (cello)Composer: BrittenEffecting a narrative is of the essence in performing unaccompanied works for cello, a feature that Daniel Müller-Schott strikingly achieves here, particularly in the First Suite. His realisation ...
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ArticleConcerto, Fantasy, Blues. Works by Telemann, Weinzierl, Bowen, Bartók, Piazzolla & Norton
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A valuable first disc from a recently formed quartet of violasMusicians: Tertis Viola EnsembleComposer: Telemann, Weinzierl, Bowen, Bartók, Piazzolla & Norton Who would have thought that a viola quartet named after Lionel Tertis would be founded not in England but ...
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ArticleSentimental Swing
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A hazily recorded disc of jazz standards that doesn’t swing enoughMusicians: Duane Padilla (violin) Stephen Jones (double bass) Tennyson Stephens (piano)Composer: Various Duane Padilla has chosen the most standard of jazz standards for this trio album. So something fairly remarkable ...
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ArticleSonatas & Scenes. Nørgård: Sonatas nos.2 & 3 for solo cello. Fundal: Figure and Ground Study 1. Brødsgaard: Prelude T. Nielsen: Fantasy Piece. Helweg: Movements
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A rewarding disc of contemporary Danish music for solo celloMusicians: John Ehde (cello)Composer: Nørgård, Fundal, Brødsgaard, T. Nielsen, HelwegThe Swedish-born cellist and conductor John Ehde has long been a champion of contemporary music, and his experience shows across the broad range of ...
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ArticleWeinberg: Violin sonatas no.1 op.12 & no.4 op.39, Sonata no.1 for solo violin op.82, Sonatina op.46
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: The rediscovery of Weinberg’s music continues with a convincing first volume of his violin sonatasMusicians: Yuri Kalnits (violin) Michael Csányi-Wills (piano)Composer: WeinbergMieczyslaw Weinberg’s music, although utterly distinct in itself, appears to draw upon the same well of social and political discontent that ...
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ArticleZemlinsky: Cello Sonata in A minor, Three pieces for cello and piano, Maiblumen blühten überall, Two Pieces for string quintet
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Chamber music from the hothouse of late 19th-century ViennaMusicians: Zemlinsky Quartet, Josef Kluso? (viola) Michal Ka?ka (cello) Jaromír Klepá? (piano) Lucie Hájková (soprano) Composer: ZemlinskyThanks to the scholarship of Antony Beaumont, many previously unknown works by fin-de-siècle Viennese composer Alexander Zemlinsky are ...
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ArticleDvorák: Capriccio: Rondo di concerto, Violin Sonata in F major op.57, Sonatina in G major op.100. Suk: Four pieces op.17, Balada op.3b
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Deeply thought readings of music violin by Dvorák and his son-in-law SukMusicians: Antje Weithaas (violin) Silke Avenhaus (piano)Composer: Dvorák, SukDvo?ák’s Capriccio hasn’t had a lot of luck. Although probably intended to become a concerto it got no further than this ...
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ArticleAida Stucki vol.2. Works by Brahms, Schumann, Haydn, Brahms/Schumann/Dietrich, Mozart, Beethoven and Dvorák
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A timely tribute to the artistry of the Swiss violinist and teacherMusicians: Aïda Stucki (violin) Stucki-Piraccini Quartet, Pina Pozzi, Walter Frey (piano) Hans Andreae (harpsichord) Zurich Radio Orchestra/Erich Schmid, Pro Musica Orchestra, Stuttgart/Rolf ReinhardtComposer: Brahms, Schumann, Haydn, Brahms/Schumann/Dietrich, Mozart, Beethoven and DvorákThis ...
