All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 20
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ArticleSchubert: String Quartets in C minor D703 & in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’, Quartettsatz
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Jerusalem Quartet Composer: SchubertFew things in music are more cheering and exciting than a young ensemble renewing old warhorses with skill, vigour and musicality. With these two performances, the Jerusalem Quartet reaches a standard that few predecessors have achieved.The ...
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ArticleTangos y Historias. Works by Piazzolla, Gsmonti, Ibert, Albéniz & Falla
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Friedemann Eichhorn (violin) Thomas Müller-Pering (guitar) Composer: Piazzolla, Gsmonti, Ibert, Albéniz & Falla The Piazzolla bandwagon keeps rolling, with his compositions being recorded in the most varied arrangements. If after a while Piazzolla’s pieces do betray the ...
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ArticleA Very Nice Album
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Nigel Kennedy Quintet Composer: VariousHaving ventured into partnership with Blue Note in 2006, Kennedy has taken his new Polish jazz quintet back to EMI for this double album. Disc 1, ‘Melody’, runs through a panoply of diluted world influences, ...
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ArticleString Quartets by Opera Composers. Puccini: Crisantemi. Respighi: Il tramonto. Wagner: Albumblatt. Humperdinck: String Quartet in C major. Verdi: String Quartet in E minor
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Leipzig Quartet, Ruth Ziesak (soprano)Composer: Puccini, Respighi, Wagner, Humperdinck, Verdi It was an inspired idea to put together a programme of string quartet music by composers who, with the exception of Respighi, are celebrated almost ...
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ArticleLidarti: Violin Concertos in D minor, in A major & in C major, Quartetto (Sinfonia) in G major
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Francesco D’Orazio (violin/director) Auser Musici Composer: LidartiBorn in Vienna into an Italian family, Christian Joseph Lidarti (1730–95) sought instruction in Italy from Niccolò Jommelli and settled eventually in Pisa. His violin concertos are not especially profound, but illustrate ...
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ArticlePeteris Vasks': Gr?mata cellam, Partita, Episodi e canto perpetuo
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin) David Geringas (cello) Kalle Randalu (piano)Composer: Peteris Vasks Lithuanian-born Rostropovich pupil David Geringas has been closely associated with the Latvian composer P?teris Vasks since the latter dedicated his 1993–4 Cello Concerto to ...
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Article
Martin: Polyptique – Six Images de la Passion du Christ, Maria-Triptychon, Passacaille
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Muriel Cantoreggi (violin) Juliane Banse (soprano), German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Christop Poppen (conductor)Composer: Martinu This immensely rewarding disc includes two thrilling discoveries, plus one of the masterpieces of 20th-century music. Frank Martinursquo;s Passacaille is one of a number of works ...
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ArticleEsperanza Spalding: Esperanza
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Esperanza Spalding (double bass/electric bass/voice) Leo Genovese (piano) Otis Brown (drums) Horacio ‘El Negro’ Hernández (drums) Jamey Haddad (percussion) Niño Josele (guitar) Donald Harrison (saxophone) Gretchen Parlato (backing vocals) Theresa Perez (backing vocals) Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet)Composer: Various Double ...
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Blogs
In Clio Tilton's first blog from the Moritzburg Festival Academy, she and her fellow musicians decide on a common language
The Moritzburg Festival Academy kicked off with a friendly welcome from the director, cellist Jan Vogler. Crowding into the Eisenberger Hof Hotel restaurant (where we are staying), we listened, glancing around at our new colleagues, looking for a familiar face. For me, being at a festival in Germany is a ...
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BlogsThe editor, Ariane Todes, tries to make friends with the portaloos at the Big Chill Festival, and searches in vain for the classical music
At the ripe old age of [ahem] I’ve just been to my first non-classical music festival, The Big Chill, in Eastnor, Herefordshire. I’ll spare the details of my efforts to embrace the whole camping thing (unsuccessful) but they were worth it for almost round-the-clock great music. This ...
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Blogs
In her second blog entry, Clio Tilton is reminded how tiring orchestral tours are
The last two days have been busy – lots of travelling for our first two concerts. The first was in Berlin at the Konzerthaus as part of the Young Euro Classic series. There was a full house and lots of excitement on our part, as for many of us it ...
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ArticleSchnittke: Piano Trio, A Paganini, Madrigal, Piano Sonata no.1
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Janácek TrioComposer: SchnittkeThese four works date from the decade 1982–92, years when Schnittke was in full command of his own voice; and the last of them, the Piano Trio, beautifully makes the point. Its 25 minutes of music are lovingly advocated by ...
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ArticleScott: Sonata lirica, Deux préludes, Valse triste op.73 no.3, Tallahassee Suite op.73 no.3, Fantasie orientale, Romance op.73 no.2, Elégie op.73 no.1, Lotus Land, Andante languido, Intermezzo, Dance n
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Clare Howick (violin) Sophia Rahman (piano)Composer: ScottCyril Scott was born in 1879 and would today be described as a crossover composer, always happy to work either in popular light music or in more serious and ambitious works. Sadly he found that his ...
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ArticleShostakovich: Cello Concertos nos.1 & 2
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Daniel Müller-Schott (cello) Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg (conductor)Composer: Shostakovich Yakov Kreizberg recently notched up a notable success as a sympathetic concerto partner for Julia Fischer and Daniel Müller-Schott in Brahms’s ‘Double’. A similar level ...
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ArticleProkofiev: Violin Sonatas no.1 in F minor op.80 & no.2 in D major op.94b, March from ‘The Love of Three Oranges’, The Mask from ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Waltz from ‘Cinderella’
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Erik Schumann (violin) Henri Sigfridsson (piano)Composer: Prokofiev Prokofiev possessed a highly complex creative personality. One minute he might enchant the ear with fresh musical slants on the Classical and Romantic traditions, then iconoclastically rail against them with outbursts ...
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ArticleRaff: Violin Concerto no.1 in B minor op.161 (original version), Suite for solo violin and orchestra op.181, La fée d’amour
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Tobias Ringborg (violin) Norrlands Opera Symphony Orchestra, Andrea Quinn (conductor)Composer: Raff Raff’s prolific output is often described as ‘eclectic’. In part, this is a tribute to his profuse writing in a variety of genres, and a style that ...
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ArticleRyelandt: Piano Quintet in A minor, String Quartet no.2 in F minor, Adagio for String Quartet in F sharp minor op.13, Andante ‘Ach Tjanne’ and Variations
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Spiegel Quartet, Joost Magerman (double bass) Jozef de Beenhouwer (piano)Composer: Ryelandt Joseph Ryelandt (1870–1965) was, like his Flemish compatriots Benoît, Blockx, Meulemans, Mortelmans and Roels, a formidable symphonist. He penned meaty oratorios, and his songs are admirably intimate. This ...
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ArticleLost and Found: Treasures of the Heifetz Legacy Vol.2. Works by Beethoven, Badings, Rachmaninoff–Heifetz, Haydn–Heifetz, Wieniawski–Heifetz & R. Strauss
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Sherry Kloss (violin) Brooks Smith (piano) Mark Westcott (piano)Composer: Beethoven, Badings, Rachmaninoff–Heifetz, Haydn–Heifetz, Wieniawski–Heifetz & R. StraussThis disc should be a fascinating insight into Heifetz’s ‘inner circle’ by performers closely associated with the violinist – Sherry Kloss was his assistant at the ...
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ArticleYsaÿe's Six Sonatas for solo violin op.27
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Henning Kraggerud (violin) Composer: YsaÿeNo less an authority than Carl Flesch considered Ysaÿe the ‘most outstanding and individual violinist I have heard in my life’. By his 30s, renowned composers were virtually falling over themselves to ...
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ArticleSibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor op.47. Khachaturian: Violin Concerto*. Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy†
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Gerhard Taschner (violin) Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Sandberg (conductor) NDR Symphony Orchestra, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (conductor)* Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Lehmann (conductor)† Composer: Sibelius, Khachaturian, SarasateI have not previously encountered this 1955 version of the Khachaturian, a work Gerhard Taschner (1922–76) plays ...
