All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 21
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ArticleMendelssohn: Violin Concertos in D minor & in E minor op.64
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Nemanja Radulović (violin) Prague Chamber OrchestraComposer: Mendelssohn Nemanja Radulović won the Joachim (2003) and Enescu (2001) competitions as a teenager. Now nearly 23, he gives his youthful emotions full poetic rein in these sparsely edited, ‘live’ readings. Radulović and the orchestra capture ...
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ArticleD’Amore. Works by Garth Knox, Marais, Roland Moser, Hume, Ariosti & Klaus Huber
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Garth Knox (viola d’amore) Agnès Vesterman (cello) Composer: Garth Knox, Marais, Roland Moser, Hume, Ariosti & Klaus Huber Viola player Garth Knox is a veteran of the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Arditti Quartet. He has made ...
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ArticleScarlatti: Twelve Keyboard Sonatas (arr. Papavrami)
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Tedi Papavrami (violin)Composer: Scarlatti Until I heard this disc, I would not have thought it possible that a Scarlatti keyboard sonata could be played on the violin. I have enjoyed Tedi Papavrami’s realisations so much that I hope ...
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ArticleTim Kliphuis – Swingin’ Through the Classics. Works by Fauré, Dvorák, Chopin, Liszt, Tárrega, Grieg, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Mozart, Schubert & Tchaikovsky (arr. Kliphuis)
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Tim Kliphuis (violin) Len Skeat (double bass) Mitch Dalton (guitars) Nick Dawson (piano) Composer: Fauré, Dvorák, Chopin, Liszt, Tárrega, Grieg, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Mozart, Schubert & Tchaikovsky (arr. Kliphuis) This album is much better than ...
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ArticleBloch: Violin Concerto. Lees: Violin Concerto
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Elmar Oliveira (violin) National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, John McLaughlin Williams (conductor)Composer: Bloch, Lees Bloch’s Violin Concerto gets few outings in the concert hall, and Benjamin Lees’s gets fewer still, so this recording is welcome. Bloch’s work, written just ...
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BlogsEditor's blog: getting carried away at last night's Prom
It always happens. In June, I mark the many BBC Proms concerts I want to go to, and then before I know it, it’s September. Summer is over, there are only two weeks left of the season and I’ve been to hardly any. Yesterday I went to ...
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BlogsEditor's blog: trying a Baroque bow and the wobble board at the ESTA conference (but not at the same time)
Last week I popped into the summer conference of the European String Teachers’ Association, at Dean Close School in Cheltenham. It was a great chance to chat to string teachers about what they want from The Strad, and I got to see some of the work that ...
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BlogsEditor's blog: moonlit nights with makers at Dartington Hall
I’m just back from a weekend at Dartington Hall in Devon, where the sun was shining and the makers of the BVMA were out in force for their annual conference. The weekend is always a good chance for me to meet people and get story ideas, and ...
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BlogsEditor's blog: Joshua Bell's looking at me!
The new Joshua Bell Vivaldi Four Seasons recording has just come into the office and of course it sounds fantastic – full of the requisite energy and poetry. But with the CD comes a fold-out calendar featuring Bell looking tousled and sultry in what looks like his Baroque ...
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ArticleBowen: Viola Sonatas no.1 in C minor op.18 & no.2 in F major op.22, Romances in D flat major & in A major, Fantasia for four violas, Phantasy in F major, etc. Beethoven: First movement of Piano Sonata
Musicians: Lawrence Power (viola) Philip Dukes (viola) James Boyd (viola) Scott Dickinson (viola) Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)Composer: Bowen, BeethovenThese are heady days for lovers of Edwardian English viola music: shortly after Roger Chase’s beautiful Benjamin Dale recording (see The Strad, @@@[WILL CHECK WHEN IN OFFICE – MR]), here we ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Piano Trios in D major op.70 no.1 ‘Ghost’ & in B flat major op.97 ‘Archduke’
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Eggner TrioComposer: BeethovenThe three Eggner brothers have gradually gained an international reputation since they formed their piano trio in 1997, winning the 1999 Brahms Competition and the 2003 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition and touring widely to critical acclaim. Their debut CD ...
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ArticleMozart: Oboe Quartet in F major K370, Three arias from Die Zauberflöte, Adagio in C minor K580a. Britten: Phantasy Quartet op.2. Dohnányi: Serenade in C major for String Trio op.10
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Lawrence Power (viola) Sebastian Klinger (cello) François Leleux (oboe)Composer: Mozart, Britten, Dohnányi Dohnányi’s Serenade for String Trio provides the most extensive work in this disc’s unusual programme. The score offers an attractive blend of warmth ...
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ArticleSchubert: Piano Quintet in A major D667 ‘Trout’. Mozart': Piano Quartet in E flat major K493
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Pinchas Zukerman (violin) Jethro Marks (viola) Amanda Forsyth (cello) Joel Quarrington (double bass) Yefim Bronfman (piano) Composer: Schubert, MozartThe standard of playing and musicianship is so high here that normal criticism seems impertinent. Even the Canadian-made ...
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BlogsEditor's blog: is Stevie Wonder the new David Oistrakh?
My ears are still ringing with the sound of Stevie Wonder’s voice at his London gig last night: that mighty, bronzed voice, with the depth and timbre of a fine French red wine, and a facility with runs and ornaments that the Mariah Careys and Christina Aguileras of ...
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BlogsEditor's blog: when music stands get in the way
I went to two very contrasting concerts this weekend. On Friday I was at the Barbican to see the Kronos Quartet collaborating with Azerbaijani singer Alim Qasimov. I’d never heard any of his ‘mugham’ music, which sounds very dry to ears attuned to Western classical scales, but ...
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ArticleFauré: String Quartet in E minor. Franck: String Quartet in D major
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Dante QuartetComposer: Fauré, FranckCésar Franck and Gabriel Fauré composed only one string quartet apiece. Both works were written in the composers’ maturity – Fauré’s in his late 70s, Franck’s a year before his death at 67. It’s a pleasing pairing for the ...
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BlogsEditor's blog: a Kavakos double whammy weekend
At the weekend I had a Leonidas Kavakos double whammy: two hours in his company on Saturday interviewing him for the January issue of The Strad and then hearing him on Sunday playing Prokofiev’s First Concerto with Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra.In person he’s extremely charming, ...
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ArticleBruch: Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor op.26. Paganini: Violin Concerto no.1 in D major op.6
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Alexandra Soumm (violin) Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Georg Mark (conductor)Composer: Bruch, PaganiniAt 19, Alexandra Soumm has already established herself as a fine violinist, with a number of high-profile successes to her name, including top spot at the 2004 Eurovision Competition for young musicians. ...
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ArticleReger: Complete String Trios and Piano Quartets vol.1: String Trio in A minor op.77b, Piano Quartet in D minor op.113
The Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Aperto Piano QuartetComposer: RegerMax Reger’s standing as a composer now largely resides in his works for organ, though chamber music occupied much of his attention throughout his short life. The present release, which promises to be the first of two discs containing ...
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ArticleSaint-Saëns: String Quartets nos.1 & 2
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2008Musicians: Joachim QuartetComposer: Saint-SaënsOn the whole, string players did very well by the mellifluous creative genius of Camille Saint-Saëns. Such was the ease with which he produced expertly crafted scores that occasionally his music was left bereft of emotional imperativeness, yet ...
