All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 27
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ArticleRavel: Piano Trio in A minor. Schubert: Piano Trio in E flat major D929
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Icicle Creek Piano Trio Composer: Ravel, SchubertFormed by prizewinning soloists from the US, Russia and the UK, this technically accomplished trio is resident at the Icicle Creek Music Center in Leavenworth, Washington, and much of its career is ...
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ArticleBach: Goldberg Variations BWV988 (arr. Sitkovetsky)
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Trio AccordComposer: BachWell-known for his resourceful and persuasive transcriptions, Dmitry Sitkovetsky has arranged Bach’s Goldberg Variations for both string orchestra and string trio. The members of the Canadian ensemble Trio Accord have clearly considered the various issues of style and interpretation raised ...
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ArticleFireworks. Works by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Medtner, Francescatti, Schumann, Kreisler, Ries, Halffter, Wieniawski, Gardner, Rota, Bock–Williams, Bloch & Ravel
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Vadim Gluzman (violin) Angela Yoffe (piano) Composer: Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Medtner, Francescatti, Schumann, Kreisler, Ries, Halffter, Wieniawski, Gardner, Rota, Bock–Williams, Bloch & Ravel With the sonorous tone of his 1690 ‘Leopold Auer’ Stradivari and his dazzling technical dexterity, Vadim Gluzman makes violin playing ...
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ArticleDuos for Violin and Viola. Works by John Williams, Copland, Spohr, Martinu, Jakulov & Rolla
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Victor Romanul (violin) Michael Zaretsky (viola)Composer: John Williams, Copland, Spohr, Martinu, Jakulov & Rolla 'Top billing’ – to use appropriate Hollywood parlance – is given on this CD to the world premiere recording of the Duo concertante by John ...
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ArticleViolette: Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Robert Uchida (violin)Composer: Violette New York composer Andrew Violette’s Sonata is, in his own words, an attempt to ‘go back to basics, to investigate the single line’. At almost two hours long – including a set of variations on ...
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BlogsEditor's blog: international relations in London
As the leaders of the free world meet each other and take tea with the Queen in London with the aim of improving international relations, world harmony of a different nature is taking place at the Royal College of Music, with the London String Quartet Competition. I ...
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Blogs
Publisher's blog: Robin Shute takes his comfortable shoes to Frankfurt
Musikmesse in Frankfurt prides itself on being the world’s greatest music trade fair. The annual extravaganza, this year held from April 1–4, demands both mental and physical stamina – and a comfortable pair of shoes – such is its vast scale. My legs are still aching. This year was different. ...
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BlogsThe advantages of modern instruments
Ariane Todes chairs a panel discussion in which luthiers shed light on the process of commissioning
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ArticleBritten's Cello Suites nos.1–3
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Denise Djokic (cello)Composer: BrittenNova Scotia-born cellist Denise Djokic, a student of Richard Aaron at the Cleveland Institute of Music who later studied in Boston with Paul Katz and Laurence Lesser, emerges as a serious artist with a distinctive identity in this her ...
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ArticleScandinavia. Maier: Violin Sonata in B minor. Aulin: Four Watercolours. Grieg: Violin Sonata no.1 in F major op.8
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Gregory Maytan (violin) Nicole Lee (piano) Composer: Maier, Aulin, GriegThe most familiar piece here by some distance is Grieg’s op.8 Sonata in F major, a delightfully exuberant confirmation of the Norwegian’s burgeoning creative powers. Gregory Maytan, ...
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ArticleTchaikovsky: String Quartet no.1 in D major op.11. Prokofiev: String Quartet no.1 in B minor op.50. Gabriel Prokofiev: String Quartet no.1
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Ruysdael QuartetComposer: Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Gabriel ProkofievQuartets seem to have run out of composers and branched out into painters for their names. The young Ruysdael Quartet from the Netherlands, founded in 1996 at The Hague Conservatoire, makes a very positive impression ...
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ArticleMendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor op.64, Piano Trio no.1 in D minor op.49, Violin Sonata in F major (1838)
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) Lynn Harrell (cello) André Previn (piano) Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Kurt Masur (conductor)Composer: MendelssohnAnne-Sophie Mutter has been one of the better German violinists for 30 years now, so it is probably too late to expect her to fulfil the promise ...
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ArticleStrauss Cello Sonata in F major op.6, Romanze in F major, Morgen op.27 no.4 (arr. Maisky). Dvorák: Sonatina in G major op.100, Romantic Piece op.75 no.4, Rondo in G minor op.94
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Mischa Maisky (cello) Pavel Gililov (piano)Composer: Strauss, Dvorák On the surface Dvo?ák and Strauss might appear an unlikely pairing. Their connection here rests with the Czech cellist Hanus Wihan, the fortunate dedicatee both of Strauss’s Cello Sonata ...
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ArticleBach: Concerto in D minor for 2 violins BWV1043, Concerto in D minor for violin & oboe BWV1060, Violin Concertos in A minor BWV1041 & in E major BWV1042
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Julia Fischer (violin/director) Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin) Andrey Rubtsov (oboe) Academy of St Martinuin the FieldsComposer: Bach Although Julia Fischer is no advocate of historically informed performance, she has clearly absorbed some of the hallmarks of Baroque ...
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ArticleBeethoven: String Quartets in E flat major op.127, in B flat major op.130, in C sharp minor op.131, in A minor op.132 & in F major op.135, Grosse Fuge in B flat major op.133
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Wihan Quartet Composer: BeethovenBeethoven’s so-called ‘late quartets’ have an inevitably large and long discography. The 1928 recordings by the Rosé Quartet (including op.131 on Biddulph) are perhaps the closest on disc to the sound world familiar in 19th-century Germany (although the Klingler ...
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ArticleAriosti: Stockholm Sonatas vol.3: Sonatas nos.15–21, Cantata ‘Pur alfin gentil viola’
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Thomas Georgi (viola d’amore) Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello) Lucas Harris (archlute/guitar) Emma Kirkby (soprano) Composer: AriostiWith this CD, Thomas Georgi completes his magisterial survey of the music for viola d’amore by Handel’s contemporary Attilio Ariosti (1666–1729). The manuscript of his Recueil de ...
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ArticleRaymond Hanson: Violin Sonata op.5, Three Fancies, Seascape, Idyll op.2, An Etching, Legende, Portrait of Australia op.46
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Susan Collins (violin) David Miller (piano)Composer: Raymond Hanson Australian Raymond Hanson (1913–76) looks set to become one of those composers whose music, freed from the stylistic constraints of time and place, enjoys a posthumous reputation way beyond anything ...
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ArticleSchubert: Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821. Gedizlio?lu: The Mediterranean. Say: Violin Sonata. Yakar: Variations on the Sorrowful Flagolet. Liszt: Sonata quasi fantasia ‘Après une lecture du Dante’
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: zcan Ulucan (violin) Aysen Ulucan (viola) Birsen Ulucan (piano)Composer: Schubert, Gedizlio?lu, Say, Yakar, Liszt The three members of the Ulucan family here were born in Bulgaria, emigrated with their parents to Turkey and have since followed very diverse educational ...
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ArticleDavid Matthews: Concerto in azzurro, The Music of Dawn, A Vision and a Journey
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Guy Johnston (cello) BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba (conductor)Composer: David Matthews David Matthews describes his Concerto in azzurro, written in 2002 for Steven Isserlis and inspired by a haloed vision of the island of Lundy in the Bristol Channel, as ...
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ArticleIn My Own Voice. Works by Kreisler, Suk, Ysaÿe, Bach, Saint-Saëns, Still & Baker
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Kelly Hall-Tompkins (violin) Craig Ketter (piano) Anna Reinersman (harp)Composer: Kreisler, Suk, Ysaÿe, Bach, Saint-Saëns, Still & Baker This is a particularly varied recital disc, mixing bonbons like Josef Suk’s Liebeslied and William Grant Still’s little Summerland with heavyweights like Ysaÿe’s ...
