All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 211
-
GalleryFrom the Archive: a violin by Joseph Guarnerius, filius Andreae
This illustration of a violin by Joseph Guarnerius, filius Andreae was published in The Strad, July 1937. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:This violin is of especial interest inasmuch, according to the eminent authority Mr Alfred Hill, there are distinct signs that Joseph Guarnerius del ...
-
ReviewCaprice viennois. Kreisler: Marche miniature viennoise, Liebesfreud, Liebesleid, Caprice viennois op.2. Brahms: Hungarian Dance no.1 in G minor (arr. for violin and piano). Ravel: Tzigane. Enescu: Vio
The Strad Issue: March 2015Description: Insouciance and integrity distinguish a young violinist’s debut recital discMusicians: Luka Kusztrich (violin) Dora Deliyska (piano)Composer: Kreisler, Brahms, Ravel, EnescuA former pupil of Dora Schwarzberg (he is currently studying with Gerhard Schulz), Vienna-born Luka Kusztrich is clearly a young talent to watch. ...
-
ReviewVoices in the Wilderness. Gal: Viola Sonata op.101, Impromptu, Suite op.102a. Krenek: Viola Sonata op.117, Solo Viola Sonata op.92 no.3
The Strad Issue: February 2015Description: Rare viola repertoire from two mid-20th-century exilesMusicians: Roger Benedict (viola) Timothy Young (piano)Composer: Gal, KrenekThis recording brings together the music of two Viennese composers who shared the fate of having to flee central Europe as the Nazis rose to power. Hans Gál ...
-
NewsCanadian violist Stanley Solomon has died aged 97
The musician was principal viola of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1949 to 1983
-
FocusFree sheet music: James Ehnes's cadenzas to the early Mozart violin concertos
The violinist describes the process behind writing his own cadenzas for Mozart’s First and Second Concertos. Download the scores as a PDF at the bottom of the article
-
NewsVideo: Seattle Symphony musicians perform on delayed flight
During a two-hour delay to take off on an Alaska Airlines flight to Palm Springs, four members of the Seattle Symphony – violinists Mikhail Shmidt and Elisa Barston, violist Susan Gulkis Assadi and cellist Walter Gray – whipped out their instruments to perform a string quartet. The performance ...
-
NewsViolin sound and design developed by accident, say researchers
The evolution of f-hole shape and back plate thickness are likely the result of small errors in the copying process
-
NewsBelenus Quartet wins first prize at the ‘Franz Schubert and Modern Music’ Competition
The Swiss ensemble triumphed in the string quartet category; no first prize was awarded in the piano trio section
-
ArticleSoundpainting: a method of structuring improvisation
Walter Thompson, the inventor of Soundpainting, demonstrates his method for structuring improvisation with the Walter Thompson Orchestra in France, September 2011. Read more about the live composition sign language in The Strad's February 2015 issue, out now. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as ...
-
ArticleMaxwell Quartet performs György Kurtág's 12 Microludes
The Maxwell String Quartet plays György Kurtág's 12 Microludes, which the ensemble performed in concert at London's Purcell Room on 5 January - read the review in The Strad's April 2015 issue, out in March.Hungarian composer György Kurtág recently received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in ...
-
ReviewSolo. Kodály: Solo Cello Sonata op.8. Golijov: Omaramor. Cassadó: Suite for solo cello. Sheng: Seven Tunes Heard in China
The Strad Issue: February 2015Description: A highly rewarding disc of works for solo celloMusicians: Alisa Weilerstein (cello)Composer: Kodály, Golijov, Cassadó, ShengFor her third disc, Alisa Weilerstein goes it alone, with two classics of the solo cello repertoire from the early 20th century and two more personal choices ...
-
NewsPerformances for an audience ‘sound better’ despite musician nerves, says study
The experiment tested recordings of performances by 13 pianists on 153 listeners
-
BlogsThe Campanula: a new option for stringed instrument players
Helmut Bleffert’s instrument features four playing and 16 sympathetic strings, writes former Berlin Philharmonic principal cellist Georg Faust. Watch a video below.
-
NewsViolinist Rachel Podger awarded Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize 2015
The UK period musician is the first female to receive the award, worth £10,000
-
ArticleChristopher Walken shares a Pablo Casals anecdote in the film A Late Quartet
Casals emphasised the good stuff. He encouraged. As for the rest, leave that to the morons, who judge by counting faults. 'I can be grateful,' he said, 'for one singular phrase, one transcendent moment''Christopher Walken describes a meeting with the great cellist Pablo Casals during a scene in ...
-
NewsBerlin Philharmonic manager calls for an increase in public funding
The orchestra’s yearly subsidy has remained at the same level for the past 13 years
-
ReviewMendelssohn: Piano Quartets no.1 in C minor & no.3 in B minor, Largo and Allegro in D minor
The Strad Issue: March 2015Description: Early Mendelssohn that might have been lifted by more inspiring playingMusicians: Gabriele Pieranunzi, Daniela Cammarano (violin) Francesco Fiore (viola) Shana Downes (cello) Roberto Prosseda (piano)Composer: MendelssohnMendelssohn’s extraordinary precocity is amply demonstrated on this disc. Presented in counter-chronological order, it starts with the ...
-
ReviewMessages. A. Panufnik: String Quartets no.1, no.2 ‘Messages’ & no.3 ‘Wycinanki’, Song to the Virgin Mary (arr. A. Panufnik)1, Prayer (arr. R. Panufnik). R. Panufnik Memories of My Father
The Strad Issue: February 2015Description: A celebration of a composing father-and-daughter relationshipMusicians: Brodsky Quartet, Robert Smissen (viola) Richard May (cello)Composer: A. Panufnik, R. PanufnikReleased to mark the centenary of Andrzej Panufnik’s birth, this disc features all three of his string quartets, a form he resisted until his ...
-
ReviewProkofiev: Cello Sonata in C major op.119, Waltz from The Stone Flower (arr. Limonov), March from The Love for Three Oranges (arr. Limonov), Adagio from Cinderella (arr. Rostropovich). Kabalevsky: Cel
The Strad Issue: February 2015Description: An excellent follow-up to a debut disc that completes the great Russian cello sonata triptychMusicians: Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) Alexei Grynyuk, Petr Limonov (piano) Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra/Andrew LittonComposer: Prokofiev, KabalevskyLeonard Elschenbroich and Alexei Grynyuk, whose 2013 debut recording (also on Onyx) comprised Shostakovich ...
-
NewsCalling Canadian violinists and cellists: applications now open for Musical Instrument Bank
The Canadian organisation loans fine instruments and bows to musicians every three years
