All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 37
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Grammy wins for cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Emerson Quartet
The Grammy winners were announced yesterday in Los Angeles. The Emerson Quartet won Best Chamber Music Performance for Intimate Letters, its disc of Czech quartets. Best Classical Crossover Album went to cellist Yo-Yo Ma for Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy and Peace.
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ArticleDevil's Trills. Music by Kreisler, Sarasate, Schubert, Tartini, Tchaikovsky, Vitali & Wieniawski
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Nemanja Radulović, Guillaume Fontanarosa, Frédéric Dessus (violin) Bertrand Causse (viola) Anne Biragnet (cello) Stanislas Kuchinski (double bass)Composer: Kreisler, Sarasate, Schubert, Tartini, Tchaikovsky, Vitali & Wieniawski There is a desperately fine yet crucial line between on the one hand finding ...
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ArticleHaydn: String Quartets vol.2: Quartets op.50 no.1 in B flat major, no.4 in F sharp minor & no.5 in F major
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Leipzig QuartetComposer: HaydnThe Leipzig Quartet and its record company seem intent on covering every corner of the repertoire. But like every other disc of this ensemble that has come my way, this second volume of a Haydn cycle rarely rises above a ...
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ArticleLeclair: Violin Sonatas Book 1 nos.9–12
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Adrian Butterfield (Baroque violin) Alison McGillivray (viola da gamba) Laurence Cummings (harpsichord) Composer: Leclair Adrian Butterfield, Alison McGillivray and Laurence Cummings bring sure technical command, sound stylistic sense and uncomplicated, utterly instinctive musicianship to these accounts, which conclude their project on Leclair’s ...
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ArticleMendelssohn: Piano Trios no.1 in D minor op.49 & no.2 in C minor op.66
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Eggner TrioComposer: Mendelssohn Recording performances live does not guarantee a spontaneous result, in fact I sometimes wonder if it militates against one. The young Eggner Trio – the brothers Christoph (piano), Georg (violin) and Florian (cello) – clearly know the ...
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ArticleAndrae: String Quartets no.1 in B flat major op.9 & no.2 in E major op.33, Quartet for flute and strings op.43
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Lochrian Ensemble of LondonComposer: Andrae The most profound problem facing any young composer emerging at the beginning of the 20th century was developing a personal voice during a period of constant flux. A number of composers hit upon a fluid ...
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ArticlePaganini: Violin Concertos no.1 in D major op.6 & no.2 in B minor op.7. Rossini: Matilde di Shabran Overture
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Rudolf Koelman (violin) Netherlands Symphony Orchestra/Jan Willem de VriendComposer: Paganini, RossiniRudolf Koelman, one of Heifetz’s last pupils, provides a very persuasive reading of these two well-loved works, while a suitably rumbustious reading of Rossini’s Matilde di Shabran Overture fills this engaging CD.It ...
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ArticleProkofiev: Violin Sonatas no.1 in F minor & no.2 in A major op.94, Five Melodies op.35b
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Vadim Tchijik (violin) David Bismuth (piano)Composer: ProkofievEven in such distinguished company as Itzhak Perlman (RCA) and Schlomo Mintz (DG), Erik Schumann’s 2008 coupling of Prokofiev’s two violin sonatas struck me as especially beguiling, particularly in the First Sonata’s feroce second movement and ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Violin Concerto in D major op.61*. Britten: Violin Concerto op.15†
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Janine Jansen (violin) Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen*, London Symphony Orchestra† /Paavo JärviComposer: Beethoven, Britten In recent months we’ve had Beethoven concertos both traditional (Capuçon on Virgin Classics) and period-informed (Kopatchinskaja on Naive): here the two come together. Janine Jansen’s melodious, ...
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ArticleShostakovich: String Quartet no.4 in D major op.83 (arr. Lieberman). Brahms: String Quartet no.2 in A minor op. 51 (arr. Lieberman). Dvorák: Adagio from String Quartet in D minor op.34 (arr. Lieberman
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: American String ProjectComposer: Shostakovich, Brahms, Dvorák:It was Barry Lieberman’s irritation that his double bass was so little used in chamber music that prompted him to add his own part to well-known quartets and quintets. From those modest beginnings has grown a series ...
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ArticleMozart: Violin Concerto no.3 in G major K216*. Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major op.77†
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Gioconda De Vito (violin) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Thomas Beecham*, German Opera House Orchestra/Paul van Kempen† Composer: Mozart, BrahmsGioconda De Vito, one of the finest violinists to emerge from Italy in the 20th century (a span her life almost exactly matched), made ...
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ArticleEnglish Music for Viola. Bliss: Viola Sonata Delius Violin Sonata no.3 (arr. Tertis). Bridge: Pieces for viola and piano
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Enik? Magyar (viola) Tadashi Imai (piano)Composer: Bliss, BridgeMy initial amazement that a violist with such an echt-Hungarian name should be playing this arch-English repertoire, and in such an idiomatic and convincing way to boot, vanished after reading her biography: upon graduating in ...
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ArticleHofmann: Cello Concerto in D major HAYDN Cello Concerto in C major. Mozart: Flute Concerto in D major K314 (arr. Szell/Ciomei)
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Sol Gabetta (cello) Basel Chamber Orchestra/Sergio CiomeiComposer: Hofmann, MozartLeopold Hofmann can justly stand alongside his two illustrious contemporaries here. His interpreters are first-rate: the orchestra’s delicate ritornellos, Sol Gabetta’s pure tone and graceful good taste never straying outside the music’s expressive limits ...
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ArticleSchubert: Duo in A major D574 (arr. Wispelwey), Sonata in A minor D821 ‘Arpeggione’, Fantasy in C major D934 (arr. Wispelwey)
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Pieter Wispelwey (cello) Paolo Giacometti (fortepiano)Composer: SchubertIs period instrumentation a marketing ploy, and how far does it become an integral part of the whole interpretation? For the first few bars of this recording I missed the velvety hues of the modern piano ...
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ArticleBach: Goldberg Variations BWV988 (arr. Giuranna)
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Trio BrozComposer: Bach (arr. Giuranna)This lovely, eminently listenable live recording serves to introduce an outstanding young Italian string trio consisting of the siblings Barbara, Giada and Klaus Broz. In their naturalness, unobtrusive virtuosity and close ensemble they remind me of ...
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Violists Alexander Akimov and Peijun Zu share top prize at viola competition
The Yuri Bashmet International Viola Competition in Moscow has ended with joint winners of the first prize. Alexander Akimov of Russia and Peijun Xu from China split the 300,000 rouble ($10,000) award. Akimov, 27, is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatoire and a soloist with the Russian National Orchestra. The ...
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ArticleChuck and Albert: Énergie
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Albert Arsenault (fiddle, bass, vocals, percussion) Chuck Arsenault (guitar, harmonica, spoons, vocals)Composer: TradThis collection of songs from Acadie (a region of French-speaking Canada) is drawn from Chuck and Albert’s live show of slapstick comedy and quirky folk music, including the traditional Acadian ...
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ArticleConcerto italiano. Dall'Oglio: Violin Concerto in C major. Stratico: Violin Concerto in G minor. Nardini: Violin Concerto in G major. Lolli: Violin Concerto in C major
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Giuliano Carmignola (violin) Venice Baroque Orchestra/Andrea MarconComposer: Dall'Oglio, Stratico, Nardini, LolliHere we have four Italian composers from the middle of the 18th century whose names have long dropped from the repertoire, but who, in their lifetime, thrilled audiences throughout Europe with prodigious ...
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Scottish fiddler Daniel Thorpe crowned Young Traditional Musician of the Year
Fiddler Daniel Thorpe has been named BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year. The 23-year-old from Inverurie in Aberdeenshire is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. The award includes performance opportunities and the chance to record a CD.
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Violinist and cellist triumph at Unisa competition in South Africa
Yura Lee and Georgi Anichenko won the violin and cello categories respectively at the Unisa International String Competition in Pretoria, South Africa. The 24-year-old Lee, from South Korea, played the Tchaikovsky Concerto in the final. Anichenko, also 24, from Belarus, won with his performance of the Dvorák Cello Concerto. Each ...
