All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 117
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ArticleFemale luthier wins Triennale gold
Ulrike Dederer viola wins in a first for Cremona competition
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ArticlePractice Diary 1: Nils Mönkemeyer
In the April issue, violist Nils Mönkemeyer discusses his practising of the Bartók Viola Concerto. Here he gives tips on playing the difficult semiquaver passages of the third movement.
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Tertis competition won by 15-year-old Ziyu Shen
The jury at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition in Port Erin, Isle of Man, UK, awarded first prize to the youngest competitor, Chinese 15-year-old Ziyu Shen. A student of Sheng Li at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, she received £7,000. Kei Tojo, 21, from Japan, won second prize ...
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ArticlePractice Diary 2: Nils Mönkemeyer
The second of two videos in which violist Nils Mönkemeyer gives tips on practising Bartók's Viola Concerto. Here, he gives tips on maintaining the independence of the left and right hand
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Award for folk fiddler and singer Eliza Carthy
The English folk fiddler and singer-songwriter Eliza Carthy has received a £50,000 award from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF), one of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK. Carthy was one of three composers named as recipients of the PHF's 2012 Awards for Artists. Five visual artists also ...
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ReviewBritten: Suites for Solo Cello nos.1—3
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A worthy centenary tribute from a fine young cellistMusicians: Philip Higham (cello)Composer: BrittenPhilip Higham already proved his affinity for Britten’s music when he committed the composer’s Cello Sonata to disc (reviewed November 2012), so this recording of the suites in the composer’s ...
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ReviewWieniawski: Violin Concerto no.1 in F sharp minor op.14. Conus: Violin Concerto in E minor op.1. Vieuxtemps: Fantasia appassionata in G minor op.35
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A winningly lyrical approach to three virtuoso showpiecesMusicians: Soo-Hyun Park (violin) Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz/Nicholas MiltonComposer: Wieniawski, Conus, VieuxtempsWieniawski’s notorious F sharp minor Concerto, with its perilous opening chain of consecutive tenths, was for a long time the preserve of the ...
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ReviewPenderecki: String quartets nos.1, 2 & 3 ‘Leaves of an Unwritten Diary’. Lutoslawski: String Quartet
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Vivid performances of music by two Polish mastersMusicians: Royal QuartetComposer: Penderecki, LutoslawskiFormed in Warsaw in 1998, the Royal Quartet has already garnered high praise for its recordings of Szymanowski and Górecki (reviewed in February 2009 and May 2011 respectively). And ...
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ReviewProkofiev: Complete works for violin and piano – Violin Sonatas no.1 in F minor op.80 & no.2 in D major op.94b, Cinq mélodies op.35b
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: High-intensity playing has mixed results in ProkofievMusicians: Isabelle van Keulen (violin) Ronald Brautigam (piano)Composer: ProkofievWhat emerges most clearly from Dutch violinist Isabelle van Keulen’s very accomplished Prokofiev disc is her astonishingly adaptable, flexible sound, with vibrato, tone, attack and phrasing all shifting ...
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ReviewBach: Partita no.2 in D minor BWV1004. Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A major op.47 ‘Kreutzer’ Wieniawski Scherzo–Tarantelle op.16. Brahms: Hungarian Dance no.1 in G minor (transc. Joachim)
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Recorded sound mars a record of Vengerov’s return to the concert stageMusicians: Maxim Vengerov (violin) Itamar Golan (piano)Composer: Bach, Beethoven, Wieniawski, Brahms (transc. Joachim)From the opening bars of this Wigmore Hall concert – Maxim Vengerov’s comeback in April 2012 – ears have ...
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ReviewFuchs: Viola Sonata op.86, Phantasiestücke op.117. Joachim: Variations op.10. Dvorák: Romance op.11
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Stylish playing of music written in the shadow of BrahmsMusicians: Patricia McCarty (viola) Eric Larsen (piano)Composer: Fuchs, Joachim, DvorákAt just under 80 minutes, this CD is brim-full with late Romantic music by composers from Brahms’s circle. Robert Fuchs’s music can’t quite emerge ...
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ReviewBruch: Kol nidrei op.37 (two performances). Boccherini: Cello Concerto in B flat major G482. Brahms: ‘Double’ Concerto in A minor op.102
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Well-preserved recordings of a master musicianMusicians: Pablo Casals (cello) Jacques Thibaud (violin) London Symphony Orchestra/Ronald Landon, Orchestra Pau Casals de Barcelona/Alfred CortotComposer: Bruch, Boccherini, BrahmsIncluding two performances of Kol nidrei is a bit strange – the second, earlier version is two and ...
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ReviewSchumann: Piano Quintet in E flat major op.44, Piano Quartet in E flat major op.47, Märchenerzählungen op.132
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Accounts that can’t compete with the best availableMusicians: Fine Arts Quartet, Xiayin Wang (piano)Composer: SchumannThe budget price of this 2010 recording of Schumann’s Piano Quintet might weigh in its favour, but otherwise it has little chance of competing. The opening fails to ...
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ReviewBeethoven: String Quartets in D major op.18 no.3, E flat major op.74 ‘Harp’ & F major op.135
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A welcome singing approach to three key Beethoven quartetsMusicians: Ysaÿe QuartetComposer: BeethovenAlthough numbered 3 when first published as part of the six op.18 quartets, the D major was in fact the first to be composed, which gives this programme a special significance ...
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ReviewShostakovich: Viola Sonata op.147, Cello Sonata op.40 (arr. Lénert for viola)
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A successful new viola version of Shostakovich’s Cello SonataMusicians: Pierre Lénert (viola) Eliane Reyes (piano)Composer: ShostakovichThe two pieces included in this CD effectively represent the beginning and end of Shostakovich’s chamber music production (the early, one-movement post-Rachmaninoffian piano trio op.8 can be ...
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ReviewGlazunov: Violin Concerto in A minor op.82, Meditation in D major op.32, Mazurka–oberek in D major. Schoeck: Concerto quasi una fantasia in B flat major op.21
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Assured playing in Romantic works for violin and orchestraMusicians: Chloë Hanslip (violin) Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana/Alexander VedernikovComposer: Glazunov, SchoeckChloë Hanslip may be aged only 25, but it’s already more than 11 years since her debut CD. Apart from the Bruch, she’s steered ...
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ReviewCorelli: Trio Sonatas op.4
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Performances that are full of spirit and tonal warmthMusicians: Ensemble Aurora/Enrico Gatti (violin/director)Composer: CorelliEnsemble Aurora offers graceful, lucid and spontaneously expressive readings of Corelli’s final collection of trio sonatas op.4, dispatching the varied movements with light, shapely articulation and a virtuosity and ...
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ReviewSchubert: Rondo in B minor D895, Fantasy in C major D934, Introduction and Variations on ‘Trockne Blumen’ D802
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Rewarding period accounts of late SchubertMusicians: Jacqueline Ross (violin) Maggie Cole (fortepiano)Composer: SchubertCompleting her two-volume survey of Schubert’s violin-and-keyboard works, with Maggie Cole returning on fortepiano, US-born Jacqueline Ross here reaches the final five years of the composer’s life, with three important ...
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ArticleFind out about the extra content hidden in The Strad's digital edition, out now
You can now download every issue of The Strad for the past two years on to your iPad, smartphone, PC, Mac or tablet computer. Since January we have been adding extra content to some of the features and regulars in each issue. Here’s a summary of the ...
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ReviewRolla: Violin Concertos in B flat major, D major & A major
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Period and modern playing styles meet some attractive Italian concertosMusicians: Paolo Ghidoni (violin/conductor) Mantua Conservatoire Chamber OrchestraComposer: RollaAlessandro Rolla (1757–1841) is best known as the teacher of Paganini and originator of some of his technical effects. Accordingly, these concertos hint at the ...
