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ReviewBeethoven: String Quartet in F minor op.95 ‘Serioso’. Schubert: String Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Blistering playing from a young Italian ensembleMusicians: Prometeo QuartetComposer: Beethoven & SchubertThe DVD version of this two-in-one release has the quartet surrounded by columns and microphones, attended by a small Classical torso. It also has short interviews with the composer Salvatore Sciarrino ...
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ReviewSchubert: String Quartets in E flat major D87 & in G major D887
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Early and mature Schubert brought to life in immaculate performancesMusicians: Casals QuartetComposer: Schubert From the mysterious opening of the G major Quartet, a score of epic scale whose length exceeds most symphonies of the period, the Casals Quartet fills ...
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ReviewEternal Echoes: Songs and Dances for the Soul. A Dudele, Mizmor L’Dovid, Shoyfer Shel Moshiakh, Romanian Doyne, T’filas Tal, Yism’chu, R’tzay, Dem Trisker Rebn’s Nign, Sheyibone Bays Hamikdosh, Kol ni
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2012Description: The Israeli—American violinist explores his Jewish rootsMusicians: Itzhak Perlman (violin) Yitzchak Meir Helfgot (cantor) Hankus Netsky (piano/arranger) various instrumentalistsComposer: TradItzhak Perlman has made klezmer recordings in the past. Here he has joined forces with the renowned cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot ...
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Brazil to reinforce pernambuco conservation
The Brazilian government is to formulate an action plan to preserve the country's endangered national tree, the Pau brasil, source of bow makers' pernambuco wood. The Ministry of Environment has announced that a National Programme for Pau-brasil Conservation will be established, based on the findings of a working group that ...
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ReviewKraus: Viola Concertos in E flat major & C major, Concerto in G major for viola and cello
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Fearless performances of familiar concertos under a new attributionMusicians: David Aaron Carpenter (viola) Riitta Pesola (cello) Tapiola SinfoniettaComposer: KrausI was more than a little surprised when a CD of viola concertos by Mozart’s exact contemporary Joseph MartinuKraus arrived, since I didn’t even ...
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ReviewVanhal: Cello Concertos in C major, A major & C major
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Generally solid accounts of newly rediscovered Classical concertosMusicians: Péter Szabó (cello/conductor) Sinfonietta PannonicaComposer: VanhalPéter Szabó here disseminates more outcomes from his enterprising explorations of library and museum shelves, presenting three world premiere recordings of cello concertos by Vanhal, based on manuscript sources. ...
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ReviewPresent. Works by Halvorsen, Kukal, Ströble, Cirri, Schulhoff & Ravel
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Mixed results in a wide-ranging recital for violin and celloMusicians: Eight Strings: Valeria Nasushkina (violin) Mikael Samsonov (cello)Composer: Halvorsen, Kukal, Ströble, Cirri, Schulhoff & Ravel This disc sheds light on some of the byways of music for violin and cello, ...
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Violinist Jack Liebeck's surgeon opens musicians' clinic
The doctor who treated UK violinist Jack Liebeck (left) for a ganglion cyst in his wrist last year has launched a new clinic in London specialising in musicians' upper-limb problems. Dr John White, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon, will work with a team of hand and upper-limb therapists at BMI ...
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ReviewYoung: Works for viola da gamba consort
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: An interesting revival of music from the English BaroqueMusicians: Hamburger Ratsmusik/Simone Eckert (viola da gamba/director)Composer: Young Viol player William Young’s collection of Sonate a 3, 4 e 5 (1653) was the first by an Englishman explicitly to prescribe the ...
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Last Spring
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Jazz takes on traditional and composed melodies from a resourceful violinistMusicians: Henning Kraggerud (violin/viola/viola concorda) Bugge Wesseltoft (piano)Composer: Kraggerud & Wesseltoft Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud seems to move freely between solo and chamber music, between standard repertoire and new commissions. This album ...
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Violinist Tami Lee Hughes is first fellow in new Baltimore Symphony fellowship
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has launched an orchestra fellows programme in partnership with Sphinx, the non-profit organisation that promotes diversity in the arts. The fellowship will offer a year of mentoring and performance opportunities to Black and Latino instrumentalists. The first fellow is violinist Tami Lee Hughes (left), originally ...
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Dresden-born concertmaster and violin pedagogue Werner Scholz dies
The German violinist Werner Scholz has died at the age of 86. A concertmaster of the Dresden Philharmonic and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Scholz was a leading pedagogue whose students won many prizes in international competitions and went on to become concertmasters and violin professors. Born in Dresden in ...
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Double bassist Roy Benson receives Salomon Prize
Roy Benson, the recently retired co-principal double bass of London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO), has been awarded the Salomon Prize by the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Association of British Orchestras. The Salomon Prize recognises the contribution of orchestral players to UK musical life and is named after violinist ...
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Brazil government launches national conservation programme to preserve pernambuco
The Brazilian government is to formulate an action plan to protect the country's endangered national tree, the pau-brasil. The environment ministry has announced that a National Programme for Pau-brasil Conservation will be established, based on the findings of a working group comprising government agencies, conservation bodies and research institutes. ...
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New documentary tells how Bronislaw Huberman founded Palestine Symphony Orchestra
A documentary film about violinist Bronislaw Huberman has been released in the US. Orchestra of Exiles explores how the Polish-born violinist brought persecuted Jewish musicians to Palestine and in 1936 formed the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, which later became the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. The 85-minute film, directed by Josh Aronson, ...
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Detroit violist and pedagogue Ara Zerounian dies aged 86
The violist and pedagogue Ara Zerounian, who taught for many years in Detroit public schools as well as privately, has died at the age of 86. After serving in the army during World War II, the Detroit-born Zerounian went to Northwestern University in Chicago for his undergraduate studies, and ...
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ArticleElliott Carter: String Quartet no.2
Possibly one of the most difficult works in the quartet repertoire, but the one that netted the late Elliott Carter his first Pulitzer prize.
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ArticleAmerican composer Elliott Carter dies
US composer Elliott Carter has died at the age of 103. Known for his difficult, uncompromising works, he penned five string quartets during a career that spanned nine decades. The second and third quartets won Carter the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1960 and 1973. Born ...
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Sydney player's stolen violin found after theft on Vienna Underground
Emma West, a violinist in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, has been reunited with the violin that was stolen from her in Vienna, reports the Wiener Zeitung. The violinist was travelling on an underground train in the city on 15 September 2012 when her instrument, worth an estimated €44,000, was ...
