All Strauss articles
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Tabea Zimmermann, Jean-Guihen Queyras: Strauss
Two splendid soloists engage in a dialogue worthy of the finest actors
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Concert 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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Sueye Park: Journey through a Century
Treasure trove of a solo recital spans a hundred years of violin music
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja: Pierrot lunaire
Not just a violinist – PatKop’s singing alter ego is extraordinary
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Raphaela Gromes: Romantic Cello Concertos
Romantic cello works yield delights in the hands of a passionate advocate
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Lisa Batiashvili: City Lights
Lights, camera, action: a violinist’s evocative movie-musical travels
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Raphaela Gromes: Strauss
Cellist lends Strauss Sonata and song transcriptions an almost operatic voice
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Concert 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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Daniel Müller-Schott: Strauss
Cello stars amid a constellation of other soloists in passionate performances
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Strauss 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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Virtuoso. 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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Schumann: Violin Sonata no.2 in D minor. Strauss: Violin Sonata in E flat major
The Strad Issue: January 2016 Description: Romantic sonatas in performances by two YCA prizewinners Musicians: Noé Inui (violin) Vassilis Varvaresos (piano) Composer: Schumann, Strauss This disc is proof that first impressions can be misleading. One might wince at the simplistic sleeve captioning of these composers as the ...
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Herbert 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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Fauré: Violin Sonata no.1 in A major. Strauss: Violin Sonata in E flat major
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: December 2015 Description: Two lifetimes’ experience shines through in these players’ first studio meeting Musicians: Itzhak Perlman (violin) Emanuel Ax (piano) Composer: Fauré, Strauss There are a number of Romantic violin sonatas that work well together in a pairing, by dint ...
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Franck: Violin Sonata in A major. R. Strauss: Violin Sonata in E flat major; Allegretto in E major; Wiegenlied; Waldseligkeit; Morgen
The Strad Issue: September 2015 Description: Thrills without spills in this pair of high-Romantic violin sonatas Musicians: 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 ...
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Oscar Shumsky: Legendary Treasures. Works by Bach, Beethoven, Buxtehude, Hindemith, Kreisler, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Tartini, Telemann and Wieniawski
The Strad Issue: June 2015 Description: Historic recordings from a great American violinist Musicians: Oscar Shumsky (violin) Nadia Reisenberg, Carroll Hollister, Mario Bernardi, Leo Barkin, George Schick, Earl Wild, Frank Maus (piano) Lois Marshall, Erna Berger (sopranos) Maureen Forrester (contralto) James Melton (tenor) Bach Aria Group, CBC ...
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Five Decades of Treasured Performances. Works by Barber, Bartók, Beethoven, A. Benjamin, Bloch, Brahms, Brustad, Chausson, Chopin, Debussy, Fauré, Gershwin, Grieg, Kreisler, Mendelssohn, Nín, Paradis,
The Strad Issue: August 2015 Description: A celebration of an under-sung violinist now in her eighties Musicians: Camilla Wicks (violin) various artists Composer: Barber, Bartók, Beethoven, A. Benjamin, Bloch, Brahms, Brustad, Chausson, Chopin, Debussy, Fauré, Gershwin, Grieg, Kreisler, Mendelssohn, Nín, Paradis, Ravel, Sarasate, Scărlătescu, Schubert, Shostakovich, R. ...
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Franck: Violin Sonata in A major. Strauss: Violin Sonata in E flat major op.18
The Strad Issue: January 2015 Description: Largely successful accounts of two Romantic sonatas Musicians: Arabella Steinbacher (violin) Robert Kulek (piano) Composer: Franck, Strauss Few works are so crucially dependent on those magical places between and behind the notes of a written score being fully explored as Franck’s ...
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Strauss: String Sextet from Capriccio. Berg: Piano Sonata in B minor op.1 (transcr. Müller). Schönberg: Verklärte Nacht
The Strad Issue: January 2006 Musicians: Artemis Quartet, Thomas Kakuska (viola) Valentin Erben (cello) Composer: Strauss, Berg, Schönberg In this unusual programme of late-Romantic string sextets recorded in 2002, the Berlin-based Artemis Quartet collaborates with cellist Valentin Erben and violist Thomas Kakuska of the Alban Berg Quartet, ...
