All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 171
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BlogsAstrig Siranossian, 25, on obtaining her Francesco Ruggieri cello
The French cellist features as a 'Fresh Face' in The Strad's April 2014 issue
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ArticleViolinist Hilary Hahn to receive €25,000 Dresden Music Festival Prize
The US violinist Hilary Hahn has been awarded the Dresden Music Festival Prize for 2014. Worth €25,000, the award will be presented at a concert at the Dresden Semperoper on 4 June. In its citation, the festival award committee said, ‘Through her authentic, contemporary musical language, ...
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ReviewGrieg: Violin Sonata no.2 in G major op.13. Chausson: Poème op.25. Franck: Violin Sonata in A major
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2014Description: Mature playing from a teenage virtuosoMusicians: Callum Smart (violin) Gordon Back (piano)Composer: Grieg, Chausson, FranckCallum Smart won the strings category of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition in 2010 when he was 13, and his career has been ...
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ReviewRecital for cello and piano. Works by Kodály, Schubert, Dohnányi, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Kreisler & Brahms
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: An entertaining cello recital combining sonatas with encoresMusicians: Wen-Sinn Yang (cello) Adrian Oetiker (piano)Composer: Kodály, Schubert, Dohnányi, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Kreisler & BrahmsThis balanced recital programme offers both familiar and less well-trodden repertoire, the latter including Kodály’s Sonatina – a mix of folk elements ...
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ReviewThe Grappelli Album
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2014Description: A loving tribute to the gypsy swing masterMusicians: Tim Kliphuis Trio: Tim Kliphuis (violin) Nigel Clark (guitar) Roy Percy (double bass)Composer: GrappelliDutch jazz violinist Tim Kliphuis is the foremost ambassador for the music of Stéphane Grappelli and for the enduringly distinctive ...
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ReviewBach: Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin BWV1001–6, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue (arr. Stepner, after BWV903)
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: A curious mixture of period instruments and modern techniqueMusicians: Daniel Stepner (violin)Composer: BachDaniel Stepner is renowned for his versatility, but these performances fall between two stools. He plays a c.1740 Sebastian Klotz, a 1641 Nicolò Amati, restored to period condition, and a ‘modernised’ ...
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ReviewWeinberg: Complete Violin Sonatas Vol.2: Violin Sonatas no.2 op.15 & no.5 op.53, Solo Violin Sonata no.2 op.95, Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes op.47 no.3
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: A wide range of emotion from a master of the Soviet era, expertly traversedMusicians: Yuri Kalnits (violin) Michael Csányi-Wills (piano)Composer: WeinbergIn this much-anticipated follow-up to the first volume in this series, which I welcomed back in September 2011, Yuri Kalnits and Michael ...
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the archive: a violin by Omobono Stradivari, Cremona, 1740
This illustration of a 1740 Omobono Stradivari violin was published in The Strad, August 1929. The following text is extracted from an article accompanying the photographs: As long ago as the occasion of the 1872 Exhibition, the question of the degree of participation by the sons of ...
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ReviewClassic Meets Rock
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: A double bass foursome tackles some rock classics with relishMusicians: BassMonsters: Thomas Jauch, Claus Freudenstein, Giorgi Makhoshvili, Stephan Bauer (double bass)Bring together four middle-aged male double bass players and put them in a studio to record a side project, and the resulting album ...
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ArticleHeifetz plays Wieniawski
To mark the 134th anniversary of Henryk Wieniawski's death, here's Jascha Heifetz performing the composer's Polonaise no.1 in D major op.4, accompanied by pianist Emanuel Bay. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial.
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ArticleViolinist Itzhak Perlman abandoned by disability staff at Toronto airport
The disabled performer was forced to make his own way through customs with his luggage and violin
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ArticleNew York Philharmonic announces four-year partnership with Music Academy of the West
Music Academy fellows will benefit from training opportunities with New York Phil musicians
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ArticleName dispute continues between Netherlands Philharmonic and Netherlands Symphony orchestras
In what sounds like an April Fools' Day joke, the Netherlands Symphony is currently the ***** Symphony, writes Heather Kurzbauer
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ArticleJános Starker performs Kodály's Solo Cello Sonata
János Starker, who appears on the cover of The Strad's April 2014 issue, performs the First Movement of Kodály's Solo Cello Sonata in Tokyo in 1988.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase back issues click here.
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ReviewSmetana: String Quartet no.1 in E minor ‘From my life’. Janácek: String Quartets no.1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ & no.2 ‘Intimate Letters’
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: Performances that bring out the personal nature of the works’ inspirationsMusicians: Jerusalem QuartetComposer: Smetana, JanácekIt is clear from the opening of Smetana’s First Quartet that the Jerusalem players have the quality essential for all these deeply personal works: character, and lots of ...
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ReviewBantock: Violin Sonata no.3. Scott: Viola Sonata. Sacheverell Coke: Violin Sonata no.1
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: Welcome airings of long-forgotten British sonatas for violin and violaMusicians: Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin/viola) Matthew Rickard (piano)Composer: Bantock, Scott, Sacheverell Coke It’s always heartening to see efforts to revive the works of lesser-known, or even long-forgotten British composers, and to that ...
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ReviewTubin: Violin Sonata no.1, Suite on Estonian Dance Pieces, Three Pieces, Meditation, Prelude, Capriccio no.2, Cock’s Dance Paganini Caprice op.1 no.24 (arr. Tubin)
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: Rare repertoire from Estonia lovingly presentedMusicians: Sigrid Kuulmann (violin) Marko Martinu(piano)Composer: TubinEduard Tubin composed a substantial amount of violin music, including two concertos as well as this first large-scale sonata by an Estonian, written shortly after completing his First Symphony in 1934. ...
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ArticleJános Starker performs Bach's Cello Suite No 3
János Starker, who appears on the cover of The Strad's April 2014 issue, performs the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite no.3 in Tokyo in 1988.Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase back issues click here.
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ArticleAnker Buch, ‘the Victor Borge of the violin', has died aged 74
The Danish violinist became famous for mixing music and comedy
