All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 175
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ArticleGuarneri violin copy to be auctioned for charity Luthiers Sans Frontières
The sale, through Ingles and Hayday, is expected to make £3,000-£5,000
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ReviewBloch Schelomo, Voice in the Wilderness. Caplet: Epiphanie. Ravel: Kaddisch
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: A poignant tribute to lost generationsMusicians: Raphael Wallfisch (cello) BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Benjamin WallfischComposer: Bloch, Caplet, RavelUnited by a biblical theme, these four works largely utilise the cello as a narrative voice, be it contemplative or commanding as in the two ...
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ReviewBritten: Cello Sonatas in A major & C major op.65, Cello Suites nos.1–3, Tema ‘Sacher’
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: A well-performed set let down by recessed soundMusicians: Alexander Ivashkin (cello) Andrew Zolinsky (piano)Composer: BrittenAs a recording artist, Alexander Ivashkin, who died in January, will be best remembered for his series of Chandos discs in the 1990s: surveys of Russian repertoire ranging ...
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ArticleCellist Dane Johansen demonstrates 'blurred' string-crossing
US cellist Dane Johansen demonstrates 'blurred' string-crossing to accompany his Practice Diary on solo Bach in The Strad's May 2014 issue, out now. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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ArticleOsmo Vänskä to return as Minnesota Orchestra music director
The conductor will lead a minimum of ten weeks during the next two seasons
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Premium ❘ GalleryFrom the archive: a violin by Joseph Guarneri del Gesu, 1738
This illustration of a violin by Giuseppe Guarneri 'del Gesu' was published in The Strad, January 1925. The following text is extracted from an article accompanying the photographs: This wonderful Joseph is indeed a fiddle which justifies the use of superlatives in any attempt to describe it, and one is ...
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ReviewBruch: Scottish Fantasy op.46. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major op.35
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: Performances that don’t quite rise above the worthyMusicians: Ning Feng (violin) Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin/Yang YangComposer: Bruch, TchaikovskyAlthough conductor Yang Yang strikes just the right pulse and mood for the picture of an old bard that opens Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, the performance ...
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ArticleCellist Julian Lloyd Webber announces forced retirement from playing
The British musician is suffering from a herniated disc in his neck
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ArticleJulian Lloyd Webber performs Fauré's Elegy
British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, who has today announced his forced retirement from playing due to injury, performs Fauré's Elegy with pianist Peter Pettinger. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click here.
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ReviewFeldman: Music for cello: Two Pieces, Projection, Four Songs to Poems by e.e. cummings, Intersection 4, Two Instruments, Durations 2, Voices and Cello, Patterns in a Chromatic Field
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: There’s control but too little detachment in this Feldman surveyMusicians: Marco Simonacci (cello) Paola Ronchetti, Ilaria Severo (soprano) Fabio Frapparelli (horn) Giancarlo Simonacci (piano)Composer: FeldmanThere’s no mistaking the fervency nor the passion of young Italian cellist Marco Simonacci in this vivid two-disc ...
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ArticleNadja Salerno-Sonnenberg performs Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, who appears on the cover of The Strad's May 2014 issue, performs the Third Movement of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase ...
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ArticlePhilharmonia Orchestra launches iOrchestra to encourage instrumental tuition
The project targets the South West of the UK, where in some areas over a third of children do not learn an instrument
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ReviewKreisler: Original compositions & arrangements of works by Gluck, Falla, Tartini & Dvorák
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: Some of the violinist–composer’s best-known works are given a faceliftMusicians: Jack Liebeck (violin) Katya Apekisheva (piano)Composer: KreislerJack Liebeck and Katya Apekisheva have stripped away the sugary coating that has, over the years, surrounded Fritz Kreisler’s original compositions and revealed pleasing duets and ...
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ArticleStephen Miahky named first violinist of the Blair String Quartet
The musician and pedagogue is also named Blair School of Music Joachim Professor of Violin
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ArticleColorado Symphony launches cannabis-friendly concert series
Classically Cannabis' is sponsored by pro-marijuana promoter Edible Events
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ArticleThe Kronos Quartet performs Lullaby from Floodplain
The Kronos Quartet, which celebrates its 40th anniversary with pictures of career highlights in the May issue of The Strad, performs Lullaby from its 2009 album Floodplain at London's Barbican. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. ...
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ReviewMlynarski: Violin Concertos no.1 in D minor op.11 & no.2 in D major op.16. Zarzycki: Introduction and Cracovienne op.35, Mazurka in G major op.26
The Strad Issue: January 2014Description: Rare works from the Polish tradition, colourfully performedMusicians: Eugene Ugorski (violin) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Michal Dworzy?skiComposer: Mlynarski, ZarzyckiVolume 15 in Hyperion’s series ‘The Romantic Violin Concerto’ features works by two adopted Polish composers, Lithuanian-born Auer pupil Emil Mlynarski and Ukrainian-born Aleksander Zarzycki. ...
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ArticleCellist Dane Johansen performs Bach's Cello Suite no.3
Cellist Dane Johansen, who has made a video demonstrating 'blurred' string-crossing for The Strad to accompany his Practice Diary in the May issue, performs the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite no.3. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day ...
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Premium ❘ FeatureFrom the Archive: advice for second violinists
Intelligent, modest, self-controlled, sympathetic: a description of all good second violinists from The Strad's May 1914 issue
