All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 38
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ArticleA German Bouquet. Works by Schop, Schmelzer, Muffat, Krieger, Buxtehude, Bach, Erlebach & Pisendel
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Trio Settecento Composer: Schop, Schmelzer, Muffat, Krieger, Buxtehude, Bach, Erlebach & PisendelTrio Settecento’s accounts of the four trio sonatas in this programme of German Baroque music suffer from problems of balance, John Mark Rozendaal’s gamba occasionally seeming too distant in several passages ...
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Soviet-trained violinist Nelli Shkolnikova dies in Melbourne
Violinist Nelli Shkolnikova has died in Australia. Born in the Ukraine in 1928, Shkolnikova studied with Yuri Yankelevich at the Moscow Conservatoire. She launched her international career after winning first prize at the Long-Thibaud Competition in 1953. She made three tours to the US, appearing at Lincoln Center and with ...
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Violinists Gareth Johnson and Randall Goosby take top awards at Detroit Sphinx competition
Violinists Randall Goosby and Gareth Johnson have taken top honours at the Sphinx Competition for young Black and Latino string players. Goosby won the $5,000 first prize in the junior division. The 13-year-old from Bartlett, Tennessee, is a student of Philippe Quint. Johnson, 24, was awarded $10,000 and a CD ...
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Violinist André Rieu's album reaches no.2 in UK pop charts
André Rieu's album Forever Vienna has climbed to no.2 in the British pop charts, the highest position ever reached by a classical instrumentalist. The recording features the Dutch violinist and his Johann Strauss Orchestra in popular Strauss waltzes, polkas and other dances. Rieu's no.2 spot surpasses the no.3 place achieved ...
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Borletti-Buitoni Trust success for Elias and Pavel Haas quartets
The Elias Quartet and the Pavel Haas Quartet are among the winners of this year's Borletti-Buitoni Trust awards. The UK-based Elias Quartet received a £30,000 award, and the Pavel Haas Quartet from the Czech Republic won a Special Ensemble Scholarship worth £20,000.
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Violinist and cellists win Yamaha prizes
Violinist Jiafeng Chen and cellists Mikhail Nemtsov and Yoshika Masuda were the winning finalists in the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Scholarship Awards in London. Each received a prize of £2,000. Chen, 22, studies with Jan Repko at the Royal College of Music in London. Masuda, 23, and Nemtsov, 22, ...
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Public outcry as EMI plans to sell Abbey Road studios used by Menuhin and Elgar
Reacting to reports that EMI has put its Abbey Road recording studios up for sale, Britain's National Trust is asking the public whether the studios should be saved. In a statement on its website, the National Trust said: 'If there is enough momentum, we may launch a campaign to save ...
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Vuillaume 'Evangelists' quartet to be loaned as competition prize
A matched quartet of instruments by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume is the prize in a new quartet competition. The contest, open to quartets with an average age of up to 28, is set to conclude on 13 July 2010 with the finals held at London's Wigmore Hall. The winning quartet will receive ...
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Tarisio to auction Philadelphia violin shop inventory online
Online auction house Tarisio is to sell the entire collection of William Moennig & Son, the Philadelphia violin shop that closed in December 2009 after 100 years in business. The sale from 22-24 June will comprise more than 800 lots of instruments, bows, photographs, books and seasoned tonewood. Some ...
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Poll shows public backs UK music education and instrument tuition
A poll commissioned by the Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) has shown that the UK public overwhelmingly supports school music lessons. Ninety-one per cent of British adults think that children should be given the chance to learn an instrument at school, according to the new research. The poll also ...
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ArticleSibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor op.47, Humoresques nos.1, 2 & 5. Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no.1 in D major op.19
THE STRAD RECOMMENDS The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Vilde Frang (violin) WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne/Thomas SøndergŠrdComposer: Sibelius,Prokofiev Even bearing in mind such timeless accounts of the Sibelius as those by Jascha Heifetz (RCA), Isaac Stern (Sony) and Christian Ferras (EMI DVD), Vilde Frang is just that extra ...
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ArticleFauré: Piano Quartets no.1 in C minor op.15 & no.2 in G minor op.55
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Trio Wanderer, Antoine Tamestit (viola)Composer: FauréThe very word ‘Wanderer’ exudes German Romanticism and would lead one to expect the trio’s members to be most at home in Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumann (which of course they are). On the present CD, ...
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ArticleGade: Violin Sonatas nos.1–3
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Hasse Borup (violin), Heather Conner (piano)Composer: GadeViolinist Hasse Borup follows hot on the heels of Thomas Albertus Imberger (Gramola, reviewed in January) with a survey of sonatas by Niels Wilhelm Gade. The Danish composer succeeded Mendelssohn as music director of the Leipzig ...
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ArticleHaydn: String Quartet in G major op.77 no.1, Dvorák: String Quartet in G major op.106
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: St Lawrence QuartetComposer: Haydn, Dvorák Two magnificent late quartets in G major by two great composers raise the expectations; but sadly, a lot of water has flowed down the St Lawrence since the eponymous ensemble began its career, and I fear a ...
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ArticleHaydn: String Quartets in A major op.9 no.6. D major op.50 no.6 & C major op.74 no.1
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Schuppanzigh QuartetComposer: HaydnThis stimulating first volume of the Schuppanzigh Quartet’s projected three-part Haydn anthology showcases period-instrument chamber playing of the highest calibre. With Anton Steck at the helm, these performers communicate directly and powerfully and imbue their interpretations with imaginative phrasing, subtly ...
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ArticleLigeti: String Quartets no.1 ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’ & no.2, Andante and Allegretto
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Parker QuartetComposer: LigetiThis enterprising disc brings together Ligeti’s complete music for string quartet in committed performances by the young players of the Parker Quartet, New England Conservatory-trained and currently ensemble in residence with the St Paul Chamber Orchestra.The First Quartet (1953–4), while ...
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ArticleDebussy: String Quartet in G minor op.10. Ravel: String Quartet in F major, Violin Sonata in G major
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Dante Quartet, Krysia Osostowicz (violin), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)Composer: Debussy, RavelString playing changed radically in the decade between the Debussy and Ravel quartets and the Dante Quartet is unusual in perceiving the difference. What a shame that the recordings, by a team new ...
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ArticleKrenek: Symphonic Elegy op.105, Seven Easy Pieces op.146, Adagio and Fugue, Five Short Pieces for Strings op.116, Symphonic Piece op.86, Brazilian Sinfonietta op.131
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Ernst Kovacic, Leopoldinum OrchestraComposer: KrenekErnst Krenek (1900–91) was one of the most prolific composers of the last century, with opus numbers stretching well into the 200s. He is best known for his jazzy opera Johnny spielt auf, but elsewhere his music is ...
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ArticleRachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor op.19 (transcr. Mikhailovsky), Romance in A minor op.posth., miniatures transcr. Mikhailovsky, Kreisler, Heifetz, Press & Dushkin
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Hideko Udagawa (violin), Konstantin Lifschitz (piano)Composer: RachmaninoffViolinist Hideko Udagawa brings together a fine clutch of Rachmaninoff transcriptions – by Heifetz and Kreisler, among others – as well as the composer’s original Romance in A minor. Viktor Mikhailovsky’s new transcription of ...
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ArticleStillness: Improvisations 2008
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Sixth Sense: Stephen Nachmanovitch (violin), Stephanie Phillips (viola, voice), Karlton Hester (flute, saxophone, synthesizer)Composer: VariousCollective improv trio Sixth Sense may be an occasional ensemble, but the players’ mutual understanding is finely tuned, resulting in an expressive spontaneity that survives the odd longueur.Most ...
