All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 15
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ArticleBeethoven: String Quartet in C major op.59 no.3 (Rasumovsky), String Quintet in C major op.29
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Kuijken Two Generations Composer: BeethovenBeethoven in C major? The key may be the same but the works inhabit quite different planes, both effortlessly reached by this amazing dynastic Kuijken group. We have been hearing Sigiswald (violin) and Wieland ...
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ArticleLeclair: Six Sonatas for two violins op.3
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Harmonie UniverselleComposer: Leclair Having established a reputation as an outstanding dancer and violinist in his native France, Jean Marie Leclair spent time during his mature years living in Turin where he extended his violin studies and imbued the ...
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ArticleMozart: String Quartets in D minor K421 ‘Hunt’, in B flat major K458 & in C major K465 ‘Dissonance’
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Pražák QuartetComposer: Mozart Three Mozart masterpieces played by four Czech masters of their craft. It ought to make for plain sailing, and I thoroughly enjoyed these performances. But nowadays we hear an astonishing range of string playing styles ...
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ArticleHonegger: Cello Concerto, Cello Sonata, Sonatina for cello and piano, Sonatina for violin and cello
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Christian Poltéra (cello) Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Kathryn Stott (piano) Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen (conductor) Composer: HoneggerFollowing on from his disc of music by Othmar Schoek, rising Swiss cello star Christian Poltéra turns to the works of another of ...
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ArticleWhirled Chamber Music
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Quartet San FranciscoComposer: Various Having showcased their tango expertise in Látigo (2006), the players of Quartet San Francisco (QSF) continue in a popular vein here, turning their attention to jazz, funk, blues and Bluegrass, while celebrating the centenary of ...
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ArticleRota: Complete music for violin and piano, and for viola and piano
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Marco Fornaciari (violin/viola) Gabriele Baldocci (piano)Composer: Rota Nino Rota (1911–79) is, of course, best known as Federico Fellini’s long-time collaborator in numerous films (La strada, Otto e mezzo and Amarcord among them), but his ‘serious’ pieces span the whole ...
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ArticleHandel: Violin Sonatas
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: London Handel PlayersComposer: Handel The past thirty years have seen many efforts to resolve the uncertainty surrounding the authenticity of Handel’s published violin sonatas. It was a situation created by the original publisher’s misrepresentation of the music he was offering, and compounded ...
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ArticleRespighi: Complete Works for Violin and Piano vol. 2: Nine Arrangements of Italian Baroque Violin Sonatas nos.1–6
Musicians: Ilona Then-Bergh (violin) Michael Schäfer (piano) Composer: RespighiRespighi was both a teenage prodigy, revealing flair in every sphere, and – with Malipiero, Casella and others – influential in the rediscovery of early Italian music that had languished neglected for years, such as Frescobaldi ...
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ArticleScott: Cello Concerto, Symphony no.1
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Paul Watkins (cello) BBC Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)Composer: Scott Many of us arrive at Cyril Scott’s unique brand of chromatically inflected textural plasticity through his exquisite piano miniature Lotus Land. However, there is a great deal more to ...
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ArticleWeinberg: Cello Sonatas nos.1 & 2, Sonata for solo cello
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Alexander Chaushian (cello) Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)Composer: Weinberg Armenian-born Alexander Chaushian makes a persuasive case for the music of Moisey Weinberg in this his first solo CD. Weinberg fled Warsaw for Russia in 1939, moving to Moscow ...
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ArticleBartók: String Quartets nos.1–6
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Belcea QuartetComposer: BartókThe Belcea Quartet has established itself as one of the finest ensembles of its generation. Even so, it is still a young group, founded not much over ten years ago, and these Bartók works constitute one of the most formidable ...
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ArticleBach's Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin BWV1001–6
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Lara St John (violin) Composer: BachYoung Canadian violinist Lara St John made her mark in the 1990s with two Bach albums, including commendable accounts of BWV1001, 1004 and 1005, and some eye-popping cover art. She now offers all ...
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ArticleBach: Six Violin Sonatas BWV1014–19, Organ Trio Sonata in E flat major BWV525
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Ken Aiso (violin) Naoki Ueo (harpsichord)Composer: Bach This set of discs is imaginatively presented, and if some of the same imagination had been applied to the playing, it would be very attractive. As it is, we ...
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ArticleBrahms: Violin Concerto in D major op.77. Joachim: Violin Concerto no.2 in D minor op.11 ‘In the Hungarian Style’
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)Composer: Brahms, JoachimThe continuing rehabilitation of Joachim’s ‘Hungarian’ Concerto is to be welcomed, and the work that Brahms partially based on it is the obvious coupling. Rachel Barton Pine has already ...
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ArticleRhapsody. Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor op.19, Vocalise op.34, Variation no.18 from Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini. Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in C major op.119
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Gautier Capuçon (cello) Gabriela Montero (piano)Composer: Rachmaninoff, ProkofievThere’s nothing ground-breaking about this CD featuring heavily recorded repertoire. Excelling, as they do, is therefore all the more impressive. Gabriela Montero already has an enviable reputation as an improviser on the piano, but in ...
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ArticleDard: Six Sonatas for cello and continuo (1759)
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Kristin von der Goltz (cello) Hille Perl (viola da gamba) Christine Schornsheim (harpsichord) Composer: DardAntoine Dard (1715–84) served as oboist and bassoonist at the French royal court from 1773 [Robin: I assume you mean 1773 – you gave ...
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ArticleFitzenhagen: Cello Concerto no.2 in A minor op.4, Elegie op.21, Capriccio op.40, Serenade op.35, Gavotte op.42, Impromptu op.43, Ave Maria op.41, Dämonenfantasie op.34
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Jens Peter Maintz (cello) Paul Rivinius (piano) Munich Radio Orchestra, Peter Rundel (conductor)Composer: Fitzenhagen Coming from an established tradition of virtuoso player–composers, Wilhelm Fitzenhagen joins the likes of Popper, Klengel and Davidov in generating cello-oriented repertoire. His chief notoriety, however, comes from ...
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ArticleDvorák: Piano Trios in B flat major op.21 and in G minor op.26. Suk: Elegy op.23
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Florestan TrioComposer: Dvorák, Suk Dvo?rák’s first two trios are in good hands here. The Florestan Trio has always had the happy knack of both capturing character in an instant and bringing coherence to extended structures. These performances are ...
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ArticleSvendsen: Violin Concerto in A major op.6, Romance in G major op.26. Lange-Müller: Violin Concerto in C major op.69
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Lars Bjørnkjær (violin) Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)Composer: Svendsen, Lange-MüllerNot only do we have Johan Svendsen to thank for insisting that the small publishing firm of Fritsch (who had already declared it ‘not very interesting’) take on Grieg’s Piano Concerto, thereby ...
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ArticleBacri: String Quartets nos.3–6
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Psophos QuartetComposer: Bacri Born in France in 1961, Nicolas Bacri has plowed a lone furrow that has assiduously avoided allegiance to any current group of composers. Moving easily between tonality and atonality, the music is undoubtedly of ...
