All Strauss articles
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ReviewConcert review: Chloë Hanslip (violin) Danny Driver (piano)
Edward Bhesania hears the performance of Beethoven, Amy Beach and Strauss at London’s Wigmore Hall on 29 October 2023
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ReviewChristoph Croisé: 1883
A programme built around a single year produces interventionist performances
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ReviewAnne Harvey-Nagl: Respighi, Strauss
Assured accounts of two demanding sonatas are let down by the acoustic
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ReviewConcert review: Kristina Blaumane (cello) Richard Waters (viola) London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Jurowski
Peter Quantrill attends a performance of Mozart and Strauss at London’s Royal Festival Hall on 22 April 2023
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ReviewTabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras: Strauss
Two splendid soloists engage in a dialogue worthy of the finest actors
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ReviewConcert review: Esther Yoo (violin) Yekwon Sunwoo (piano)
Tim Homfray reports on the recital performance at London’s Wigmore Hall on 20 September 2021
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ReviewSueye Park: Journey through a Century
Treasure trove of a solo recital spans a hundred years of violin music
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ReviewPatricia Kopatchinskaja: Pierrot lunaire
Not just a violinist – PatKop’s singing alter ego is extraordinary
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ReviewRaphaela Gromes: Romantic Cello Concertos
Romantic cello works yield delights in the hands of a passionate advocate
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ReviewLisa Batiashvili: City Lights
Lights, camera, action: a violinist’s evocative movie-musical travels
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ReviewRaphaela Gromes: Strauss
Cellist lends Strauss Sonata and song transcriptions an almost operatic voice
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ReviewConcert review: Alisa Weilerstein (cello) London Symphony Orchestra/François-Xavier Roth
Peter Quantrill gives his thoughts on the performance at London’s Barbican, 19 December 2019
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ReviewDaniel Müller-Schott: Strauss
Cello stars amid a constellation of other soloists in passionate performances
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ArticleStrauss Tritsch-Tratsch Polka performed by double bass orchestra
The Brno Double Bass Orchestra performs an arrangement of Strauss's Tritsch-Tratsch Polka by Wells Cathedral School tutor David Heyes in 2009.Heyes writes about creating a resonant double bass tone in The Strad's July 2016 issue – download on desktop computer or through The Strad App.Read: Too few conductors ...
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ReviewVirtuoso. Works for violin and piano by Britten, Dohnányi, Dvorák, Elgar, Falla, Paganini, Sarasate, Strauss, Stravinsky, Tárrega, Tchaikovsky and Wieniawski
The Strad Issue: July 2016 Description: Kavakos displays his technical prowess in a programme of encore pieces Musicians: Leonidas Kavakos (violin) Enrico Pace (piano) Composer: Britten, Dohnányi, Dvorák, Elgar, Falla, Paganini, Sarasate, Strauss, Stravinsky, Tárrega, Tchaikovsky, ...
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ReviewSchumann: Violin Sonata no.2 in D minor. Strauss: Violin Sonata in E flat major
The Strad Issue: January 2016Description: Romantic sonatas in performances by two YCA prizewinnersMusicians: Noé Inui (violin) Vassilis Varvaresos (piano)Composer: Schumann, StraussThis disc is proof that first impressions can be misleading. One might wince at the simplistic sleeve captioning of these composers as the ‘first’ and ‘last’ of ...
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ArticleHerbert von Karajan conducts Radetzky March with the Vienna Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan conducts Strauss's Radetzky March at the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concert 1987.Read: Vienna Philharmonic publishes pictures from its recent auditions
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ReviewFauré: Violin Sonata no.1 in A major. Strauss: Violin Sonata in E flat major
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: December 2015Description: Two lifetimes’ experience shines through in these players’ first studio meetingMusicians: Itzhak Perlman (violin) Emanuel Ax (piano)Composer: Fauré, StraussThere are a number of Romantic violin sonatas that work well together in a pairing, by dint of either their similarities or ...
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ReviewFranck: Violin Sonata in A major. R. Strauss: Violin Sonata in E flat major; Allegretto in E major; Wiegenlied; Waldseligkeit; Morgen
The Strad Issue: September 2015Description: Thrills without spills in this pair of high-Romantic violin sonatasMusicians: James Ehnes (violin) †¨Andrew Armstrong (piano)Composer: Franck, R. Strauss:Some play the first movement of Franck’s Violin Sonata as a reverie; others give it impulse and purpose. James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong, a ...
