All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 137
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ArticleFernando Grillo (1946–2013)
Fernando Grillo, the Italian double bassist, composer and teacher, has died at the age of 67. Closely associated with Italy’s avant-garde movement, he experimented with new forms of sound production and collaborated with composers including Salvatore Sciarrino, Harrison Birtwistle, Iannis Xenakis and Luciano Berio. Karlheinz Stockhausen once dubbed Grillo ‘the ...
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ArticleRCM graduate Chew Jun Ru in performance
Chew Jun Ru's performance at the 2012 National Chinese Music Competition. The Singaporean musician took first prize in the erhu category. Chew has recently become the Royal College of Music's first graduate in a traditional Chinese instrument. Read the full story. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition ...
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FocusJames Ehnes on Mozart
In an article from August 2006, the Canadian violinist explains how he wrote his own cadenzas for the composer's violin concertos
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ReviewNölck: Salon music for cello & piano. Mendelssohn Songs without Words nos.1, 6,12,18, 23 & 30 (arr. Nölck)
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Even accomplished performances can’t rescue mundane cello miniaturesMusicians: Beth Vanderborgh (cello) Theresa Bogard (piano)Composer: NölckTravelling from Hamburg to Vienna and eventually settling in Dresden, Lübeck-born cellist–composer August Nölck (1862–1928) absorbed the Romantic language of Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, rendering his music, largely ...
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ArticleEx-Chetham's teacher Malcolm Layfield arrested
Malcolm Layfield, former head of strings at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), has been arrested on suspicion of three historic rapes. The 61-year-old, who quit his post at the RNCM in February, was detained over alleged offences of rape against three girls, two aged 16 and one aged ...
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ArticleBach's Chaconne on film: Ida Haendel
A recent performance by the violinist illustrates her special sound.
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BlogsNigel Kennedy's Vivaldi at the BBC Proms
What's it like hearing the 'quasi-punk' violinist in concert for the first time? Our editorial assistant Pauline Harding reports
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ReviewOnslow: Cello Sonatas op.16: no.1 in F major, no.2 in C minor & no.3 in A major
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Tasteful accounts of rarely heard sonatas written in the shadow of BeethovenMusicians: Maria Kliegel (cello) Nina Tichman (piano)Composer: OnslowFive years after Beethoven wrote his last cello sonata, George Onslow, a descendent of the British nobility writing in Paris, penned his own three ...
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ArticleErhu player receives Royal College of Music degree
London’s Royal College of Music (RCM) has awarded its first degree in a traditional Chinese instrument. Singaporean musician Chew Jun Ru, 24, has graduated with a BMus in performance on the erhu, a two-stringed bowed instrument sometimes known as a ‘Chinese violin’.Chew, 24, has principally studied at Singapore’s Nanyang Academy ...
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ArticleDmitry Shebalin (1930–2013)
Russian viola player and pedagogue Dmitry Shebalin has died at the age of 83. For more than four decades he performed with the Borodin Quartet, one of the most acclaimed chamber music groups of the 20th century.Born in 1930, Shebalin was the son of the composer and teacher Vissarion Shebalin. ...
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ReviewA. Romberg: Violin Concerto no.3 in D minor op.461, Violin Sonata no.3 in G minor op.322, Don Mendoza Overture op.363 B. Romberg: Cello Concerto no.2 in D major op.34, Divertimento on Austrian Folkson
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Well-played accounts of two concertos, despite a missing cadenzaMusicians: Yury Revich (violin) Lionel Cottet (cello) Federico Diaz (guitar) Hof Symphony Orchestra/Luca BizzozeroComposer: A. Romberg, B. RombergThis disc features the work of the Romberg cousins – violinist Andreas (1767–1821) and cellist Bernhard (1767–1841). ...
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ArticleAssistant concertmaster leaves Minnesota Orchestra
Another of the Minnesota Orchestra's locked-out musicians has quit the ensemble. Assistant concertmaster Stephanie Arado (pictured) has resigned to take up a teaching post at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. Arado, who joined the Minnesota Orchestra in 1991, wrote in an email to the orchestra's leadership: 'My ...
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ArticleBorodin Quartet: Tchaikovsky & Shostakovich
The Borodin Quartet performs Tchaikovsky's String Quartet no.1 op.11 & no.2 op.22, followed by Shostakovich's String Quartets no.3 op.73 & no.8 op.110. Recorded at the Henry Wood Hall, London, 7-9 October 1987Mikhail Kopelman, violinAndrei Abramenkov, violinDmitry Shebalin, violaValentin Berlinsky, celloSubscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part ...
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ArticleJoshua Bell to judge Miss America contest
Joshua Bell has been named as a judge for the 2014 Miss America competition. The 45-year-old violinist will be one of seven adjudicators for the pageant, taking place on 15 September in Atlantic City, New Jersey.Bell (pictured performing at the 2013 BBC Proms) will be joined by Lance ...
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ArticleBach's Chaconne on film: Ivry Gitlis
The unconventional violinist interprets the masterpiece
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ArticleSteven Isserlis to guest edit The Strad
The cellist takes over the October issue and has chosen an inspiring and provocative theme
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ReviewShostakovich: String Quartets nos.9–12. Weinberg: String Quartet no.6
The Strad Issue: January 2013Description: Performances that evoke both 19th-century tradition and 20th-century realitiesMusicians: Pacifica QuartetComposer: Shostakovich, WeinbergThe third and penultimate volume in the Pacifica Quartet’s distinguished Shostakovich cycle (revealingly subtitled ‘The Soviet Experience’) boasts the same sense of emotional imperativeness that distinguished the previous instalments. Some ...
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GalleryAlbert Spalding: 1888–1953
At the height of his career, Albert Spalding was known – and indeed publicised – as ‘The Greatest American Violinist’. Born on 25 August 1888 – 125 years ago – he eschewed virtuoso histrionics in favour of a refined musical sensibility – an approach that brought him an international touring ...
