All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 31
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ArticleMozart: Complete Violin Concertos
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Gidon Kremer (violin/director) Kremerata BalticaComposer: Mozart Gidon Kremer’s view of Mozart’s concertos is decidedly spiritoso, with some delightful affettuoso along the way. He and his beloved Kremerata Baltica are very much a double act, bandying phrases back and forth, ...
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ArticleKnox: Viola Spaces, Viola Spaces Variations on Marin Marais, La valse de la Vineuse, Jonah and the Whale, Ockeghem Fantasy
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Garth Knox (viola/viola d’amore) Johannes Eva, Julien Heichelbech, Marie Petit, Cyprien Busolini, Aurélien Grais (viola) Nathalie Chabot (violin) Agnès Vesterman (cello) Carol Robinson (clarinet) Gérard Buquet (tuba)Composer: Knox Few musicians can claim half as much experience in the performance of ...
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ArticleFloodplain
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Kronos QuartetComposer: Various Floodplain, created in one era of American politics and released in another, presents commissions and arrangements of music from around the Middle East.So much of the CD’s effect is bound up in the strength of the ...
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ArticlePurcell: Ten Sonatas in Four Parts
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Retrospect Trio Composer: PurcellRetrospect Trio is an offshoot of Retrospect Ensemble, which is in turn an artistically broader reincarnation of The King’s Consort. Sophie Gent and Matthew Truscott alternate as lead violinist in this debut disc, but ...
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Premium ❘ FeatureHow a hand injury impacted cellist Julian Steckel emotionally as well as physically
The international cello soloist and chamber musician on his recovery from a motorbike accident
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BlogsEditor's blog: will alternative violin styles ever catch on in Europe?
Editor's blog: will alternative violin styles ever catch on in Europe? I’m just back from an exhilarating week in New York at Mark O’Connor’s Fiddle Camp. There was a dizzying array of different styles and techniques on offer – almost too much to choose from, with jazz, ...
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ArticleWhitty: thirty-nine pages
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Darragh Morgan (violin) Mary Dullea (piano) Composer: WhittyI hadn’t come across composer Paul Whitty, but the booklet note informs that he is director of Sonic Art Research at Oxford Brookes, and, more startlingly, his work has found its way into ...
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BlogsOpinion: today's performers should remember that you don't need to be aggressive to make a searing point, argues Richard S. Ginell
Not too long ago, I walked away from a performance by one of our leading female violinists in Los Angeles’s futuristic Walt Disney Concert Hall feeling as if I had just been mugged. She was playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, and her conception had all kinds of ...
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ArticleHaydn: Cello Concertos no.1 in C major & no.2 in D major. Zumsteeg: Cello Concerto in A major
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Sebastian Comberti (cello/director) Orchestra of the Age of EnlightenmentComposer: Haydn, ZumsteegThe intensive quest to locate an 18th-century concerto that will enrich the cello’s repertoire continues. Does this work by Stuttgart cellist Johann Zumsteeg (1760–1802) fit the bill? He undoubtedly offers pleasant operatically ...
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ArticleRachmaninoff: Romance in A minor, String Quartets nos.1 & 2, Morceaux de salon op.6, Vocalise (arr. Press), Two Sacred Songs. Mussorgsky: Hopak (arr. Rachmaninoff)
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Dene Olding (violin), Goldner Quartet, Joan Rodgers (soprano), Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) Composer: Rachmaninoff, MussorgskyBeyond the Cello Sonata of 1901, Rachmaninoff is hardly remembered for his chamber music. Here, though, is a collection bringing together some of the music he ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Cello Sonatas in F major op.5 no.1, G minor op.5 no.2 & A major op.69
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Friedrich Kleinhapl (cello) Andreas Woyke (piano)Composer: BeethovenI would hope this is the first in a pair of discs containing Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano, for it would find a place among the most interesting in the catalogue. By opting for ...
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ArticleMozart: Complete Sonatas for keyboard & violin vols.7 & 8: Sonatas K10–15 & K26, Allegro in B flat major K372, 12 Variations in G major K374a, 6 Variations in G minor K374b, Fantasia in C minor K396
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Rachel Podger (violin) Gary Cooper (fortepiano/harpsichord) Alison McGillivray (cello)Composer: Mozart This set of two discs, neither of which includes any real blockbusters, completes Rachel Podger and Gary Cooper’s outstanding Mozart project. As with previous issues, these players convey the sensibility ...
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ArticleBeethoven: String Quartets in C sharp minor op.131 & F major op.135
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Cypress QuartetComposer: BeethovenFrom one of the growing number of performer record labels, the American-based Cypress Quartet makes a most auspicious opening to its planned series of Beethoven’s late quartets. The players began their journey towards this cycle since they first began working ...
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ArticleSchubert: String Quartets in B flat major op.posth.168 & D minor D810 (Death and the Maiden), Quartettsatz in C minor D703
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Voce Quartet Composer: SchubertThe Voce Quartet has a better reason than most to choose Schubert for its debut recording, since as well as coming second in the recent London International Quartet Competition it also walked away with three ...
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ArticleBruch: Violin Concertos no.2 in D minor op.44 & no.3 in D minor op.58
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Maxim Fedotov (violin) Russian Philharmonic Orchestra/Dmitry YablonskyComposer: Bruch To those of us brought up on the famous Menuhin LP of the Mendelssohn E minor and Bruch G minor concertos, comparisons between the two composers are inevitable. Bruch’s heritage creates a ...
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ArticleRussian Works for Violin and Viola. Kabalevsky: Improvisation op.21. Volkonsky: Viola Sonata. Khandoshkin: Solo Violin Sonata in G minor. Prokofiev: Five Pieces from ‘Cinderella’. Stravinsky: Chanson
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Lydia Mordkovitch (violin/viola) Nicholas Walker (piano) Julian Milford (piano)*Composer: Kabalevsky, Volkonsky, Khandoshkin, Prokofiev, StravinskyTo hear Lydia Mordkovitch at the peak of her interpretative powers is like being thrown back half a century when the likes of David Oistrakh, Isaac Stern ...
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ArticleVivaldi: Violin Concertos vol.3: RV210, RV268, RV307, RV312, RV333, RV350 & RV352
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Duilio M. Galfetti (violin) I Barocchisti/Diego FasolisComposer: Vivaldi This disc delivers more than it promises. The fashionable packaging (with a rather fallacious comparison between Vivaldi’s music and ‘swing’ in the booklet notes) prepared me for something over-marketed and mediocre, ...
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ArticleKorngold: Violin Concerto in D major op.35, Schauspiel Overture, Much Ado About Nothing Suite
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Philippe Quint (violin) Mineria Symphony Orchestra/Carlos Miguel PrietoComposer: Korngold Although released at the same time as Nikolaj Znaider’s high-powered coupling of Korngold’s Hollywood-imbued Violin Concerto with the Brahms (reviewed last month), Philippe Quint’s account is more than just a ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Violin Concerto in D major op.61 BERG Violin Concerto
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Haydn Trio EisenstadtArabella Steinbacher (violin) WDR Symphony Orchestra Köln/Andris NelsonsComposer: Beethoven Very few recorded violinists have possessed the ideal combination of cantabile purity and angelic intensity for the Beethoven Concerto: Leonid Kogan, Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Christian ...
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ArticleBaroque Cello Illuminations. Works by Eccles, De Fesch, Vivaldi, Couperin, Sammartini/Berteau & Bach
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Angela East (cello) Ruth Alford (Baroque cello) Howard Beach (harpsichord) Composer: Eccles, De Fesch, Vivaldi, Couperin, SamMartinu/Berteau & Bach Angela East offers an exciting and imaginative showcase for a selection of exam chestnuts, some bypassed in concerts ...
