All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 14
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ArticleWieniawski: Violin concerto no.2 in D minor. Szymanowski: Violin concerto no.2 op.61. Lutoslawski: Chain 2
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Benjamin Schmid (violin) Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Raiskin (conductor) Composer: Wieniawski, Szymanowski, LutoslawskiBenjamin Schmid is never less than highly impressive in this chronologically arranged programme, featuring three celebrated Polish works for violin. Yet one senses a special identification with ...
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ArticlePaganini:‘Non piu mesto’ from Rossini’s ‘La cenerentola’ (arr. Kreisler), Caprice no.24 in A minor (arr. Kreisler), Variations on ‘God Save the King’, Cantabile (arr. Kinsky & Rothschild), etc
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Ning Feng (violin) Thomas Hoppe (piano)Composer: PaganiniBorn in Chengdu, China, Ning Feng enjoyed a string of competition successes while studying variously with Weiman Hu (Sichuan), Hu Kun (London) and Antje Weithaas (Berlin), before winning the 51st Paganini International Completion in 2006. His ...
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ArticleBritten: Cello Sonata, Suite no.3 for solo cello. Shostakovich: Cello Sonata
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Karine Georgian (cello) Jeremy Young (piano)Composer: Britten, Shostakovich Karine Georgian is an established cellist and pedagogue who, on the evidence of this release, deserves a wider audience. These three works – all written for her teacher Rostropovich – ...
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ArticleTishchenko: Concerto for Violin, Piano & String Orchestra, Dante-Symphony no.3 ‘Hell: Circles 7–9’
The Strad Issue: Febraury 2008Musicians: Alexander Rozhdestvensky (violin) Viktoria Postnikova (piano) String Orchestra of St Petersburg, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)Composer: Tishchenko The main event here is an all-too-painfully illustrative symphony (2001) concerned with the deepest circles of Hell in Dante’s Inferno that ...
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ArticleMozart: Violin Sonatas in G major K301, in E minor K304, in F major K376 & in B flat major K454
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Aaron Berofsky (violin) Thomas Sauer (piano)Composer: Mozart Aaron Berofsky argues in the CD booklet that Mozart described this group of works as ‘Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin’ out of convention, which didn’t prevent his later scores bringing the two ...
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ArticleSchumann: Piano Quintet in E flat major op.44. Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major (Trout), Die Forelle
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Atlantis Ensemble, Max von Egmond (baritone) Composer: Schumann, SchubertIt is said that Schumann wept aloud when he heard news of Schubert’s death. Hence this pairing is apt, for this epitome of 19th-century Romantics had the pantheon of Haydn, Mozart, ...
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BlogsViolinist Ruth Rogers' blog from the Thai-Burmese border - Part One
Ruth Rogers, Victoria Sayles, Rose Redgrave and Katherine Jenkinson are playing string quartets to Burmese refugees on the Thai-Burma border. This is their first blog entry for The Strad website, written by Ruth Rogers
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BlogsViolinist Ruth Rogers' blog from the Thai-Burmese border - Part Two
Ruth Rogers, Victoria Sayles, Rose Redgrave and Katherine Jenkinson are playing string quartets to Burmese refugees on the Thai-Burma border. This is their second blog entry for The Strad website, written by Ruth Rogers
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BlogsFlamenco drove me to Dounis
In the lazed aftermath of Christmas I saw a five-day beginners’ flamenco course advertised in Time Out, and I thought it might be fun to learn something new. How wrong can a girl be? I was useless. Absolutely useless. And miserable. I could see what the instructor ...
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BlogsViolinist Ruth Rogers' blog from the Thai-Burmese border - Part Three
Ruth Rogers, Victoria Sayles, Rose Redgrave and Katherine Jenkinson are playing string quartets to Burmese refugees on the Thai-Burma border. This is their third blog entry for The Strad website, written by Ruth Rogers
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BlogsViolinist Ruth Rogers' blog from the Thai-Burmese border - Part Four
Ruth Rogers, Victoria Sayles, Rose Redgrave and Katherine Jenkinson are playing string quartets to Burmese refugees on the Thai-Burma border. This is their fourth blog entry for The Strad website, written by Ruth Rogers
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ArticleBrahms: Cello Sonatas no.1 in E minor & no.2 in F major. Schumann: Fünf Stücke in Volkston
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Clive Greensmith (cello) Boris Berman (piano) Composer: Brahms, SchumannAs cellist of the Tokyo Quartet Clive Greensmith brings real chamber-music qualities to the Brahms sonatas, with the cello by turns prominent and the next moment falling away to ...
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ArticleGarth: Six Concertos for the Violoncello op.1
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Richard Tunnicliffe (cello) Avison Ensemble, Pavlo Besnosiuk (director)Composer: Garth The talented English organist, composer and entrepreneur John Garth (1721–1810) was based largely in Durham. His six cello concertos op.1 were published in 1760 and are transitional works in ...
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ArticleL. Berkeley: String Quartets nos.1–3
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Maggini Quartet Composer: L. BerkeleyI’ve been a fan of violinist Lorraine McAslan since she first burst upon the scene with a stunning 1989 account of the Britten concerto for the now defunct Collins Classics label (reissued on Naxos 8.557198), so it was ...
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ArticleViola incognita. Milhaud: Viola Sonata no.1 op.240. Hindemith: Viola Sonata in F major op.11 no.4. Winkler: Viola Sonata op.10
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Pavel Ciprys (viola) Daniel Wiesner (piano)Composer: Milhaud, Hindemith, Winkler I am not sure which ‘unknown’ elements the title of this CD refers to. The viola itself? Hardly. The repertoire? Two of the three works are among the best known ...
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ArticleBach: Brandenburg Concertos nos.1–6
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: European Brandenburg Ensemble, Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord/director)Composer: BachIf you haven’t heard of the European Brandenburg Ensemble before, that’s because this is its first recording, and hopefully not the last. Trevor Pinnock has gathered around him some of the finest of Europe’s ...
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ArticleBax: String Quartet no.1 in G major. Elgar: String Quartet in E minor op.83
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: PavÁo QuartetComposer: Bax, Elgar The last couple of decades have witnessed a remarkable general increase in quartet playing standards, yet the downside has been a corresponding tendency towards greater musical objectivism. What a relief, then, to discover ...
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ArticleViola-Trios. Just: Trio in E flat major op.13 no.4. Holzer: Trio in C major op.7. no.3. Glinka: Trio pathétique in D minor. Berger: Trio in G minor op.94
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Vidor Nagy (viola) Peter Wolf (cello) Carmen Piazzini (piano)Composer: Just, Holzer, Glinka, Berger If, like me, you thought that trios for viola, cello and piano must be really thin on the ground, maybe we should revise that opinion. ...
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ArticleComposers in the Loft. Lorenz: Bachangó*. Pann: Differences† . Jalbert: Piano Trio. Garrop: String Quartet no.2 ‘Demons and Angels’‡. Fung: Miniatures for clarinet and string quartet¶
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: David Ying (cello)† John Bruce Yeh (clarinet)¶ Marta Aznavoorian (piano)* Elinor Freer (piano)† Lincoln Trio, Blava Quartet‡, Maia Quartet¶Composer: Lorenz, Pann, Jalbert, Garrop, FungIt took only a few seconds of Ricardo Lorenz’s Bachangó for piano – Debussy meets Bartók, Piazzolla ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Violin Concerto in D major op.61, Violin Sonata no.7 in C minor op. 30 no.2
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Min-Jin Kym (violin) Ian Brown (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)Composer: Beethoven Following her critically acclaimed recording of Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole, Min-Jin Kym offers a strongly lyrical, authoritative account of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. She shapes and unfolds the ...
