All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 305
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ArticleBartók: String Quartet no.3, Dvorák: String Quartet no.11 in C major op.61, Mozart: String Quartet no.20 in D major K499 ‘Hoffmeister'
The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Salzburg recordings from 1965 in slightly compromised soundMusicians: Juilliard QuartetComposer: Bartók, Dvorák, MozartCatalogue number: ORFEO C927 161B Live Juilliard performances can be illuminating, but here the tape imparts a tremulous quality to the strings. In a purposeful Allegretto to Mozart’s ‘Hoffmeister’, tangy ...
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NewsViolinist Annelle Gregory wins 2017 Sphinx Competition $50,000 first prize
The annual Detroit contest, including senior and junior divisions, is open to Black and Latino US string players
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GalleryFrom the Archive: the 'Zahn' Stradivarius, 1719
This illustration of the 1719 'Zahn' violin by Antonio Stradivari was published in The Strad, September 1985. The following text is extracted from the article accompanying the photographs:The violin shown on this month's front cover is the 'Zahn' Stradivarius made in 1719. The instrument is an outstanding ...
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NewsMichael Daugherty album, featuring cellist Zuill Bailey, wins three 2017 Grammy awards
The album has triumphed in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo, Best Contemporary Classical Composition and Best Classical Compendium categories
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ArticleCellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah
BBC Young Musician 2016 winner Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah in an arrangement by composer-pianist Tom Hodge at London's Abbey Road Studios in the video above.The 17-year-old cellist performed the work at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) televised ceremony at London's Royal Albert Hall yesterday evening ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Complete Violin Sonatas
The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: A close partnership brings romantic warmth to the Beethoven sonatasMusicians: Pierre Fouchenneret (violin), Romain Descharmes (piano)Composer: BeethovenCatalogue number: APARTÉ AP 129 (3CDs) Recorded in concerts over two days, these performances bear few traces of haste in their preparation or execution. Pierre Fouchenneret ...
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ArticleMischa Maisky performs Saint-Saëns's The Swan
Cellist Mischa Maisky performs 'The Swan' from Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy.The performance was recorded at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland on 27 July 2015. The entire concert, including Maisky's performance of Shostakovich's Cello Concerto can be viewed ...
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ArticleNemanja Radulović rehearses Barber Violin Concerto with Kirill Karabits
Violinist Nemanja Radulović takes part in an informal rehearsal of Barber's Violin Concerto with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) chief conductor Kirill Karabits accompanying on piano. Radulović, who is currently serving as BSO artist in residence, is to perform the work with the orchestra tonight (15 February) at ...
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ArticleBrahms: String Quartet no.3 in B flat major op.67; Three Songs, Schoenberg: String Quartet no.2 in F sharp minor op.10
The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: The Kuss players continue to make ear-opening musical juxtapositionsMusicians: Mojca Erdmann (soprano), Kuss QuartetComposer: Brahms, SchoenbergCatalogue number: ONYX 4166 The Kuss Quartet’s first disc for Onyx paired Schubert and Berg. This new one offers a similar juxtaposition but with two composers in ...
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NewsLincoln Center Awards for Emerging Artists 2017 announced
Among those honoured for their 'outstanding artistry and promising future' are the Calidore String Quartet and violinists Frank Huang and Paul Huang
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ArticleViolinist Annelle Gregory gives winning performance at Sphinx Competition 2017
Annelle K. Gregory performs the first movement of Sibelius's Violin Concerto in the final of the 2017 Sphinx Competition - which she won, taking home the top prize of $50,000. The performance, which took place at Orchestra Hall, Detroit on 12 February 2017, features the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra ...
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NewsViolinist David Garrett wins Frankfurt Music Prize 2017
The €15,000 award is given annually during the Musikmesse trade fair
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NewsPittsburgh Symphony principal second violin Jennifer Ross resigns
The violinist has spent 19 years in the role, following stints in the Honolulu and Cincinnati symphony orchestras
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NewsThe Strad March 2017 issue is out now
Intrepid violinist Richard Tognetti discusses new music, new contexts and his career at the helm of the Australian Chamber Orchestra
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ArticleAmerican Composers Orchestra performs Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho Suite
The American Composers Orchestra - 'dedicated to the creation, performance, preservation and promulgation of music by American composers' - performs Bernard Herrmann's Psycho Suite conducted by George Manahan.The performance was recorded at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall in New York on October 28 2016.Watch: Pittsburgh Symphony strings perform Bernard ...
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Focus'Programming a difficult contemporary work before Beethoven often backfires' - Richard Tognetti
Three decades as artistic director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra have taught Richard Tognetti that invention is essential to the health of classical music, writes Chloe Cutts
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ArticleBritten: Three Suites for Solo Cello
The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Viersen offers thoughtful and integrated performances of the three suitesMusicians: Quirine Viersen (cello)Composer: Benjamin BrittenCatalogue number: GLOBE GLO 5259 In a candid booklet interview, the Dutch cellist Quirine Viersen speaks of her tentative, even wary approach to performing and recording Britten’s three ...
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WinWIN Oscar Shumsky: A Life Portrait
In the March 2017 issue of The Strad, writer Eric Wen looks back at the life and legacy of US violinist Oscar Shumsky. Born on 23 March 1917, Shumsky became one of America's best-known violinists, and Wen got to know him towards the end of his life.'I recall ...
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ArticleCaetani: String Quartets: in D major op.1 no.1, in F minor op.12
The Strad Issue: February 2017Description: Sensitive performances of this 'missing link' between Brahms and SchoenbergMusicians: Alauda QuartetComposer: CaetaniCatalogue number: BRILLIANT CLASSICS 95198 The effusively Romantic music of Roffredo Caetani (1871–1961) forms an unlikely but persuasive calling-card for a young, UK-based quartet, formed in 2011 at London’s Royal ...
