All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 130
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ArticleRomanian cellist wins Aram Khachaturian Competition
Andrei Ionita, a 19-year-old cellist from Romania, won first prize at the Aram Khachaturian International Competition for cellists, held in Yerevan, Armenia. Ionita (pictured performing with the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia conducted by Sergey Smbatyan) is a student of Jens Peter Maintz at the Berlin University ...
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ReviewStrauss: Don Quixote, Till Eulenspiegel
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A well-characterised account of Strauss’s ‘Fantastic Variations’Musicians: Alban Gerhardt (cello) Lawrence Power (viola) Gürzenich Orchester Köln/Markus StenzComposer: StraussStrauss’s mastery of brilliant orchestral timbres allows him full scope to depict the two rogues in these tone poems in the most vivid of terms. ...
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ArticleOnline archive showcases English folk song and fiddle music collections
A new online archive from the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) will make more than 58,000 documents from twelve of England’s most important folk music collections freely available to all, including a wealth of fiddle- and string-related material. The Full English will be the ...
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ArticleIrish violinist and pedagogue Hugh Maguire dies
The Irish-born violinist Hugh Maguire, who led symphony orchestras and chamber groups including the Allegri Quartet and the Melos Ensemble, has died at the age of 86. Maguire (pictured coaching a young piano trio in 1980) grew up in Dublin, where he studied at the College of ...
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ReviewSvendsen: Violin Concerto in A major op.6, Symphony no.1, Norwegian Artists’ Carnival, Two Icelandic Melodies
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A sympathetic performance of a little-known Romantic concertoMusicians: Marianne Thorsen (violin) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Neeme JärviComposer: SvendsenAs part of Chandos’s enterprising Svendsen orchestral series, Marianne Thorsen, who has already played a major role in the cycle, here turns her attention to the rarely ...
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ReviewTaylor: String Quartets nos.5, 6 & 7
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Three quartets play three quartets by a single composerMusicians: Dante Quartet, Allegri Quartet, Salieri QuartetComposer: TaylorThis disc follows the release seven years ago of a selection of chamber works by British composer and conductor Matthew Taylor, and features his three most recent ...
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ReviewString Paths. Tabakova: Insight, Concerto for cello & strings, Frozen River Flows, Suite in Old Style, Such different paths
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Compelling music from a young British–Bulgarian composerMusicians: Janine Jansen, Julia-Maria Kretz, Roman Mints (violin) Amihai Grosz (viola) Torleif Thedéen, Boris Andrianov, Kristina Blaumane (cello) Stacey Watton, Donatas Bagurskas (double bass) Raimondas Sviackevi?ius (accordion) Vaiva Eidukaityt?-Storastien? (harpsichord) Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra/Maxim Rysanov (viola/conductor)Composer: TabakovaPärt ...
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ReviewBruch: Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor op.26. Chausson: Poème op.25. Korngold: Violin Concerto in D major op.35
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A heady mix of Romanticism tempered by subtle playingMusicians: Arabella Steinbacher (violin) Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon/Lawrence FosterComposer: Bruch, Chausson, KorngoldA whole disc of full-on Romanticism, such these works represent, could be too much for the nervous system were it not for the lithe ...
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ReviewSaint-Saëns: Music for violin and piano vol.1. Violin Sonata no.1 in D minor op.75, Berceuse op.38, Élégies opp.143 & 160, Sarabande et rigaudon op.93, Romance op.37 L’air de la pendule, Triptyque op.
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Performances that set a new standard in the playing of Saint-Saëns’s violin musicMusicians: Fanny Clamagirand (violin) Vanya Cohen (piano)Composer: Saint-SaënsThe mellifluous ease and radiant lyricism of Saint-Saëns’s D minor Violin Sonata was captured with such impassioned precision by Jascha Heifetz that for ...
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ReviewSchumann: Violin Sonatas nos.1–3
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Probing accounts of Schumann’s late sonatasMusicians: Anthony Marwood (violin) Aleksandar Madžar (piano)Composer: SchumannOne of Schumann’s countless innovations, still sadly underappreciated, was his mould-breaking tendency to create expressive structures with their own internal logic. In the violin sonatas Gidon Kremer (Deutsche Grammophon) first ...
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ReviewShostakovich: Cello Concerto no.1 op.107, Cello Sonata op.40, Moderato
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A vision of Shostakovich that works better in the chamber fieldMusicians: Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) Pascal Amoyel (piano) BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Pascal RophéComposer: Shostakovich The arresting opening four-note motif of Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto should convey menace in its unnerving tonal ambiguity, ...
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ReviewDittersdorf: Double Bass Concertos nos.1 & 2, Sinfonia concertante for viola & double bass, Duetto
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Highly accomplished performances of Dittersdorf’s complete double bass concertante worksMusicians: Leon Bosch (double bass) Robert Smissen (viola) Academy of St Martinuin the Fields/Kenneth Sillito (director)Composer: Dittersdorf Leon Bosch’s accounts of Dittersdorf’s two solo concertos abound in personality, imagination, warmth and humanity. His ...
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ReviewHaydn: String Quartet in G major op.77 no.1. Nordheim: Duplex. Bartók: String Quartet no.5
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Music-making that is often overshadowed by the richness of the recordingMusicians: EngegŠrd QuartetComposer: Haydn, Nordheim, BartókIt’s the recording itself that’s the real star of this disc. 2L’s exceptionally transparent, generous sound picks out each of the quartet’s players as individuals, yet also ...
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ReviewBach: Cello Suites BWV1007–12
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Mixed results in performances that combine mannerism and eloquenceMusicians: Jan Vogler (cello)Composer: BachJan Vogler uses a standard four-string set-up for all six of the Bach Cello Suites. His range of tone adds to the power of his performances, infectiously rhythmic in the ...
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ReviewBrahms: Viola Sonatas op.120. Schubert: Sonata in A minor D821 ‘Arpeggione’
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Generally pleasing accounts of works originally for other instrumentsMusicians: Robin Ireland (viola) Tim Horton (piano)Composer: Brahms & SchubertThe latest recording from this long-standing, perfectly attuned partnership was made at Potton Hall recording studio in Suffolk ‘in front of an invited audience’ that ...
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ReviewSpain Through Strings. Arriaga: String Quartet no.3 in E flat major. Turina: La oración del torero. Toldrá: Vistas al mar. Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Quintet for guitar and strings op.143A
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A rewarding disc of mainly Spanish works for string quartetMusicians: Zemlinsky Quartet, Miriam Rodriguez Brüllová (guitar)Composer: Arriaga, Turina, Toldrá, Castelnuovo-TedescoAlthough the Italian-born Castelnuovo-Tedesco is an interloper in a disc of otherwise Spanish composers, it is his Guitar Quintet that forms the highlight. ...
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ReviewMendelssohn: String Quartets in E minor op.44 no.2 & F minor op.80, Capriccio op.81 no.3
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: A generally successful first volume in a Mendelssohn cycleMusicians: Maggini QuartetComposer: MendelssohnHaving gained much critical acclaim in the field of rarely recorded British music, the Maggini Quartet is spreading its wings with this first release in a projected cycle of Mendelssohn’s works ...
