All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 18
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ArticleSchubert: Arpeggione Sonata D821, String Quintet in C major D956
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Nicolas Deletaille (arpeggione/cello) Paul Badura-Skoka (piano) Rosamonde Quartet Composer: SchubertSchubert’s Arpeggione Sonata, beloved by cellists and viola players, is practically never heard on the instrument after which it was named. It took young Belgian cellist Nicolas Deletaille, most ...
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ArticleFrom Jewish Life. Bloch: Schelomo, Prayer (arr. Aasgaard). David Diamond: Kaddish. Gerard Schwarz: In memoriam. Bruch: Kol Nidrei
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Jonathan Aasgaard (cello) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz (conductor)Composer: Bloch, David Diamond, Gerard Schwarz, Bruch What characterises Jewish music? Perhaps the augmented intervals and whispers of melismatic orientalism in the melodies, such as Bloch’s Prayer, or the cantorial incantation ...
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ArticleLa Voce Nel Violino. Works by Cima, Uccellini, Fontana, Monteverdi, Rognono, Castello, Gesualdo, Bassano, Frescobaldi, Pandolfi, and Veracini
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: ImaginariumComposer: Cima, Uccellini, Fontana, Monteverdi, Rognono, Castello, Gesualdo, Bassano, Frescobaldi, Pandolfi, and VeraciniThis disc plumbs largely the early 17th-century Italian repertoire for the violin, when the instrument began to gain independence from its former roles in dancing or in doubling vocal parts. ...
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ArticleBridge: Phantasie Piano Quartet, Phantasie Piano Trio, Scherzo for cello, Souvenir for violin, Three Songs with viola, Songs
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: London Bridge Ensemble, Ivan Ludlow (baritone)Composer: Bridge The choice of programme here offers a release that is unique in the fast-growing catalogue of Frank Bridge recordings. The two substantial ‘Phantasie’ pieces, framing the group of shorter works written ...
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ArticleDale: Suite op.2, Introduction and Andante for six violas op.5, English Dance, Phantasy op.4
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Roger Chase (viola) Hannah Shaw (viola) Fiona Opie (viola) Thomas Beer (viola) Rumen Cvetkov (viola) Karel Coninx (viola) Michiko Otaki (piano)Composer: Dale According to Frederick Corder, his teacher at the Royal Academy of Music, Benjamin Dale (1885–1943) wrote ...
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ArticleElgar: Cello Concerto in E minor op.85. Myaskovsky: Cello Concerto in C minor op.66
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Jamie Walton (cello) Philharmonia Orchestra, Alexander Briger (conductor)Composer: Elgar, Myaskovsky Young British cellist Jamie Walton has already recorded Saint-Saens’s concertos with the Philharmonia and Alexander Briger. Now two years on he turns to two more introspective works: Elgar’s ...
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Blogs
In our new blog, a young violinist describes her experience of working with Valery Gergiev
Part one What a rainy day. I almost tripped and fell on the ground on my way to the rehearsal this afternoon! Rehearsal started at 3pm, but most members arrived early to settle down. I was there about half an hour early, too, not only because I have been looking ...
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Blogs
At her second rehearsal with the LSO, violinist Kitty Cheung is inspired by Valery Gergiev's interpretation of Mahler
We had a fantastic rehearsal at the Barbican Hall this morning. The four-hour rehearsal began at 9am and after the late finish the night before, I was glad I had had two doses of caffeine before we started. Today, Gergiev worked with the string section quite intensively. He put a ...
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Blogs
In her final blog entry, young violinist Kitty Cheung embarks on the Mahler performance under Valery Gergiev
Here came the big evening. Backstage, members of the orchestra were practising the difficult passages. It seemed everyone was a bit nervous. After all, this was a very demanding programme, and the performance was being recorded for LSO Live. I was nervous, too, but I was probably more excited than ...
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ArticleShostakovich: Piano Trios no.1 in C minor op.8 & no.2 in E minor op.67, Piano Quintet in G minor op.57
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: London Mozart Trio, London Mozart Chamber Ensemble Composer: ShostakovichShostakovich’s chamber music is well represented in the catalogue, but certain interpreters outshine others in prising out the ironies and ambiguities that often underlie. Best here is the pre-war Piano ...
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ArticleBrahms and his Contemporaries, vol.2. Strauss: Cello Sonata in F major op.6. von Herzogenberg: Cello Sonata no.3. Brahms: Cello Sonata no.1 in E minor op.38
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Johannes Moser (cello) Paul Rivinius (piano)Composer: Strauss, von Herzogenberg, BrahmsOccasionally history deals composers an unfair hand. To some extent Heinrich von Herzogenberg comes into this category; certainly his strongest works such as the Second Piano Trio and First Cello Sonata are not ...
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ArticleBrahms: Clarinet Trio in A minor op.34 (viola version), Two Songs op.91, Viola Sonatas in F minor op.120 no.1 & in E flat major op.120 no.2
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Thomas Riebl (viola) Gustav Rivinius (cello) Michelle Breedt (contralto) Silke Avenhaus (piano)Composer: Brahms We are in danger of hearing Brahms’s Clarinet Trio more often on viola than on the wind instrument, but if all contenders are as ...
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ArticleSaint-Saëns: Cello Concerto no.1 in A minor. Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme. Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Andreas Brantelid (cello) Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Schønwandt (conductor)Composer: Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, SchumannTwenty-year-old Swedish cellist Andreas Brantelid is already in the public eye after winning both the 2006 Eurovision Young Musicians Competition and the 2007 Paulo International Cello Competition. Now EMI ...
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ArticlePaganini's Twenty-Four Caprices op.1
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Janusz Wawrowski (violin)Composer: PaganiniAny violinist who can commit the challenging bravura of Paganini’s caprices to CD with substantial accuracy, clarity and technical aplomb is worthy of praise. But Polish violinist Janusz Wawrowski goes one step further, performing these benchmarks for the aspiring ...
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ArticleGlazunov: Violin Concerto in A minor op.82. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major op.35, Souvenir d’un lieu cher op.42 (arr. Glazunov)
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Vadim Gluzman (violin) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor)Composer: Glazunov, Tchaikovsky Vadim Gluzman’s honeyed tone in the opening movement of the Glazunov Concerto transports us back to the days of David Oistrakh, recreating that innate Russian musicality of a previous generation. Yet ...
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ArticleSchubert: Quartettsatz in C minor D703, String Quintet in C major D956
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Artemis Quartet, Truls Mørk (cello)Composer: Schubert These are performances of great musical certainty. They have clearly been thought through in minute detail and have emerged as readings of character and confidence. A little too much so, perhaps, for ...
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ArticleRuth Posselt: American Violinist. Works by Bloch, Hill, Hindemith, Villa-Lobos, Prokofiev, Arbos, Khachaturian, Tchaikovsky & Barber
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Ruth Posselt (violin) Allan Sly (piano) Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky (conductor) plus other orchestras & conductorsComposer: Bloch, Hill, Hindemith, Villa-Lobos, Prokofiev, Arbos, Khachaturian, Tchaikovsky & BarberThe Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) audience, before whom Ruth Posselt (1911–2007) appeared a record 64 times, ...
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ArticleAmerican Fantasies. Works by Schoenberg, Cage, Schuller, Harris, Kirchner & Coulthardt
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Hasse Borup (violin) Mary Kathleen Ernst (piano) Composer: Schoenberg, Cage, Schuller, Harris, Kirchner & Coulthardt It is something of an irony that at a time when contemporary musical techniques have reached unprecedented levels of subtlety and insight, Schoenberg’s serial work is ...
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ArticleKlassik Meets Jazz. Works by Gerd Noack, Oliver Nelson, Berndt Luef, Iván Eröd, Gerhard Präsent, Hannes Kuegerl & Georg Arányi-Aschner
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: ALEA Quartet, Berndt Luef (vibraphone)Composer: Gerd Noack, Oliver Nelson, Berndt Luef, Iván Eröd, Gerhard Präsent, Hannes Kuegerl & Georg Arányi-Aschner‘Klassik meets Jazz’ could as well be called ‘String Quartet meets Vibraphone’. The pieces involving Berndt Luef are of the easy-listening variety: two ...
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ArticleTrio Arc
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Mario Pavone (double bass) Paul Bley (piano) Matt Wilson (drums)Composer: Various Mario Pavone and Paul Bley rekindle an old flame in this first collaboration for over 35 years, a free improvisation session with drummer Matt Wilson. The disc opens ...
