All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 39
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ArticleRode: 24 Caprices for solo violin
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Axel Strauss (violin)Composer: RodePaganini’s Caprices have long been seen as concert pieces, but Pierre Rode’s earlier set is still best known today as study material. This is not entirely fair. Admittedly, some of Rode’s pieces – such as no.14 with its emotional ...
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ArticleHill: String Quartets vol.3: no.5 in E flat major (‘The Allies’), no.7 in A major & no.9 in A minor
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Dominion QuartetComposer: HillThis disc marks roughly the halfway point in Naxos’s ambitious project to record all 17 quartets by the prolific Australian composer Alfred Hill (1869–1960), who spent his formative years in New Zealand. It features three works composed between 1920 and ...
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ArticleJohann, I’m Only Dancing. Bach: Arrangements of Brandenburg Concerto no.3, Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565, etc
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Red PriestComposer: BachWith its highly personalised style of stage presentation, Red Priest aims to introduce the Baroque to audiences that would normally dismiss ‘old-fashioned’ music. Such commercialisation has polarised opinions, and this disc, devoted to the music of Bach, will ...
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ArticleBartók: 44 Duos for two violins
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Angela Chun, Jennifer Chun (violin)Composer: BartókConsidering the dazzling range of techniques and effects unleashed by Bartók elsewhere in his violin writing, the 44 Duos remain steadfastly true to their intentions as elementary teaching material. Pizzicato is employed sparingly, while double-stopping ...
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ArticleMendelssohn: Piano Trios in D minor op.49 & C minor op.66
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Trio Jean PaulComposer: MendelssohnThese excellent West German Radio recordings, by an established German group, come very close to the truth of Mendelssohn’s trios as I understand it. Unlike the performances by the Eggner Trio from Austria, which I reviewed last month, they ...
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ArticleChopin: Cello Sonata in G minor op.65, Piano Trio in G minor op.8, Grand Duo on themes from Meyerbeer’s ‘Robert le diable’
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Vilde Frang (violin), Andreas Brantelid (cello), Marianna Shirinyan (piano)Composer: Chopin For his second disc with EMI, rising Danish cello star Andreas Brantelid offers a convincing interpretation of Chopin’s Cello Sonata with Marianna Shirinyan. In the first movement he focuses on the music’s ...
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US cellist David Soyer dies aged 87
David Soyer, longtime cellist of the Guarneri Quartet, has died at the age of 87. He founded the quartet in 1964 with violinists Arnold Steinhardt and John Dalley and violist Michael Tree. After 37 years with the group, he retired in 2001 and was succeeded by his former student Peter ...
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ArticleThe Cello’s Russian Voice. Glinka/Tchaikovsky/Rachmaninoff: Arrangements of songs
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Dmitry Ferschtman (cello), Mila Baslawskaja (piano)Composer: Glinka, Tchaikovsky, RachmaninoffIt’s not often that a CD booklet is as lavishly presented as this one, featuring colour reproductions of landscapes and portraits by Levitan, Zhukovsky and Repin in the booklet alongside the poetry of Tolstoy, ...
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ArticleKhachaturian: Violin Concerto in D minor, Concerto–Rhapsody in B flat minor
The Strad Issue: January 2010Musicians: Nicolas Koeckert (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/José SerebrierComposer: KhachaturianThough Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto remains on the fringes of the concert repertoire, it has fared well both in the quantity and quality of its recordings. This latest one comes from the German–Brazilian violinist Nicolas Koeckert, ...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art instrument galleries reopen
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its musical instrument galleries after an eight-month closure. The reconfigured display features around 230 instruments. More than a quarter of these are new acquisitions or instruments that have rarely been seen before, including a Giovanni Grancino viola d'amore of 1701. The installation retains ...
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BlogsAriane Todes turned into a grumpy old woman last night at the Wigmore Hall
What do you do during a concert when the person in front of you starts mailing on their Blackberry?
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Australian cellist Richard Narroway wins Stulberg Competition
Australian Richard Narroway has won the gold medal in the Stulberg International Strings Competition in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The 18-year-old cellist studies at Northwestern University's Beinen School of Music with Hans Jorgen Jensen. As well as the $5,000 top prize, Narroway also won the Bach Award. The silver medal went to ...
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Violinist Nigel Kennedy to score film of 1973 World Cup qualifier
Violinist Nigel Kennedy will bring together his love of football and his skills at improvisation at London's Southbank Centre in May. Together with other musicians, he will play and partly improvise his own background score at a screening of the 1973 World Cup qualifier between England and Poland. The event ...
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Taejun Park wins J.&A. Beare Solo Bach Competition
Seoul-born Taejun Park has won the J.&A. Beare Solo Bach Competition for string players, held at the Bishopsgate Institute in London. The 18-year-old violinist, a student of Albrecht Breuninger at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe, was awarded £1,000. The second prize of £500 went to 20-year-old Latvian violinist Kristine Balanas. French cellist Claire-Lise ...
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BlogsIt's always worth haggling
Ariane Todes has just negotiated a discount on her insurance policy
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Finzi Quartet receives £10,000 Royal Over-Seas League prize
The Finzi Quartet has won one of two £10,000 ensemble awards in the Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL) Annual Music Competition in London. Two other string players won solo prizes: cellist Jun Sasaki, a student of Thomas Carroll at the Royal College of Music, was awarded the £5,000 strings prize; and ...
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British violinist Simon Standage wins Telemann Prize
British Baroque violin specialist Simon Standage has been awarded the Telemann Prize by the city of Magdeburg in Germany. As soloist–director of Collegium Musicum 90, Standage made ten recordings of Telemann's music for Chandos in the 1990s. The award of the Telemann Prize, worth 2,500 euros, was announced at the ...
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Violinist Ray Chen signs multi-year recording deal with Sony
Violinist Ray Chen has signed an exclusive multi-year recording contract with Sony Classical. The 21-year-old, who was born in Taiwan and grew up in Australia, is one of the most high-profile young soloists following his victories at the 2008 Menuhin Competition and the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition. Chen's debut recital ...
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Violinist Joshua Bell to give benefit concert in Bloomington, Indiana
Violinist Joshua Bell will give a benefit concert to help children's music education in the city where he grew up. Proceeds from his 13 April recital in Bloomington, Indiana, with British pianist Sam Haywood will support elementary-school string programmes, which are under threat amid a public school funding crisis in ...
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