All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 56
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ArticleHalvorsen: Orchestral Works vol.2: Three Norwegian Dances*, Air norvégien op.7*, Chant de la Veslemöy*, Suite ancienne op.31a, Symphony no.2 ‘Fatum’
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Marianne Thorsen (violin)* Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Neeme JärviComposer: HalvorsenBefore he was a composer, Johan Halvorsen was a virtuoso violinist, and his works for violin and orchestra are wonderfully written for the instrument. His music, like that of his friend Grieg, is steeped in ...
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ArticleSchoenberg: String Trio op.45. Webern: String trio op.20, Movement for String Trio op. posth. Schnittke: String Trio
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Goeyvaerts TrioComposer: Schoenberg, Webern, SchnittkeThis recording includes a short talk by Schoenberg (in English), originally broadcast along with a performance of his Trio in 1949, concerning attention to detail by performers and listeners – a potential hostage to fortune for the Goeyvaerts ...
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ArticleYsaÿe: 6 Sonatas for solo violin op.27
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Samika Honda (violin)Composer: YsaÿeThe set of six solo Sonatas op.27 is the only work of Ysaÿe’s to have won a place in the regular performing repertoire. The first four are dedicated to legendary colleagues – Szigeti, Thibaud, Enescu and Kreisler, no less ...
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ArticleG. Coates: String Quartet no.9, Sonata for Violin Solo, Lyric Suite ‘Split the Lark – and you’ll find the Music’
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Kreutzer Quartet, Roderick Chadwick (piano)Composer: G. CoatesGloria Coates (b.1938) writes music that is as close to surrealism as any I know. An American composer who has lived in Munich since 1969, she uses simple, often straightforwardly diatonic elements, yet twists them into ...
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ArticleTchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major. Tartini: Sonata ‘Didone abbandonata’, Variations on a Theme by Corelli. Vivaldi: Violin Sonata in D major. Kreisler: Schön Rosmarin, Caprice viennois. Brahms:
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Erica Morini (violin) Michael Raucheisen (piano) RIAS Symphony Orchestra/Ferenc FricsayComposer: Tchaikovsky, Tartini, Vivaldi, Kreisler, Brahms, WieniawskiHere is a portrait of the marvellous Erica Morini (1904–95) as she was in Berlin in 1952. She is playing favourite music, starting with a live Tchaikovsky ...
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ArticleHendrix: Have you ever been…? Balakrishnan: Tree of Life
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Turtle Island QuartetComposer: Hendrix, Balakrishnan The Turtle Island Quartet has previously tackled Coltrane, Gillespie and Brubeck. This time it’s Jimi Hendrix who gets the Turtle treatment.It’s a brave quartet that tackles something as iconically electric as, say, Voodoo Child. Though ...
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ArticleSeasons... Dreams... Works by Beethoven, Debussy, Duke, Fauré, Gershwin, Gruber, Kosma, Pritske & Wagner
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Anne Akiko Meyers (violin) Reiko Uchida (piano) Emmanuel Ceysson (harp) Composer: Beethoven, Debussy, Duke, Fauré, Gershwin, Gruber, Kosma, Pritske & Wagner After beginning with a bang 22 years ago, Anne Akiko Meyers’s recording career seems to have retreated into the mood-music market. ...
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ArticleBuxtehude: Opera Omnia XII: Sonatas from Manuscript Sources
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Catherine Manson, David Rabinovich (violin) Jonathan Manson (viola da gamba) Christine Sticher (violone) Tom Koopman (harpsichord/organ) Mike Fentross (lute)Composer: BuxtehudeThis twelfth volume of a project to record Buxtehude’s complete works features sonatas from manuscript sources. Composed for various instrumental combinations, these synthesise ...
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ArticleSzymanowski: Complete works for violin and piano
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Stawomir Tomasik (violin) Robert Morawski (piano)Composer: SzymanowskiKarol Szymanowski, whose creative style was forged initially from the folk music of his native Tatra Mountains, was one of the most enigmatically individual of early 20th-century composers. This fine collection usefully brings together everything he ...
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ArticleTchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Susanna Yoko Henkel (violin) Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra/Jonathan DarlingtonComposer: Tchaikovsky, Vaughan WilliamsListening once again to the Tchaikovsky Concerto’s impassioned flow of spontaneous invention, it seems more bizarre than ever that it is was this of all pieces that the pro-Brahms Viennese critic Eduard ...
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ArticleTouchable Dreams
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Steve Bingham (violin/five-string electric violin/octave electric violin/treble recorder/thumb piano/rainsticks) Jeremy Harmer (voice) Composer: VariousThis is more an event than a CD. Steve Bingham multi-tracks his instruments in an eclectic range of music while Jeremy Harmer reads poetry. One can imagine it performed ...
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Violist and Juilliard Quartet founding member Raphael Hillyer dies at 96
The founding violist of the Juilliard Quartet, Raphael Hillyer, has died at the age of 96. Born in New York, he had already begun studying the violin when he visited Leningrad in 1924 and received ear-training from the 18-year-old Dmitri Shostakovich. Hillyer studied mathematics at Dartmouth and music at the ...
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Special lifetime achievement Grammy for Juilliard Quartet
The Juilliard Quartet will be given a lifetime achievement award at next month's Grammy ceremonies in Los Angeles. The group is the first classical ensemble to receive the prize, and will be honoured alongside artists including Julie Andrews, Dolly Parton and The Ramones. Formed in 1946, the Juilliard Quartet ...
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Musicians Union's no-touching advice attacked
Education secretary Michael Gove has attacked the Musicians' Union (MU) for advising its members to adopt a policy of no touching when teaching pupils. In an open letter to the union, he said that the advice 'plays to a culture of fear among adults and children', and that his department ...
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YouTube chooses 97 musicians for next orchestra
YouTube has selected the musicians for its next symphony orchestra project, which takes place in Sydney this March. Ninety-seven players from more than 30 countries were chosen after submitting video auditions to the site. The musicians, ranging in age from 14 to 49, will spend a week in Australia working ...
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BlogsForlorn hopes for end to airline woes
Parliamentary debate was no help to string players, says Ariane Todes
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Delhi violinist plays 50 hours non-stop
A Delhi musician has completed a record-breaking public performance in which he played the violin non-stop for 50 hours. Paras Mani Choudhary's marathon recital was certified by officials from the Limca Book of Records, an Indian-based records book. The previous record was a mere 32 hours. Choudhary was already in ...
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French archetier uses gold and diamonds in 100,000-euro bow
French bow maker Jean-Luc Tauziede has fashioned an elaborately decorated cello bow with the help of a team of jewellers. The bow's frog and button incorporate rose gold and white gold, the back plate is set with 66 diamonds, and the button is adorned with an eight-point crown. Named ...
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Columbus Symphony Orchestra concertmaster quits after 16 years
Charles Wetherbee has resigned as concertmaster of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra to focus on his chamber music career with the Carpe Diem Quartet. Wetherbee was appointed concertmaster of the Columbus Symphony in 1994. In December Wetherbee spoke of pay cuts for musicians and the orchestra's financial position as factors in ...
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Violin Suzuki pedagogue John Kendall dies aged 93
John Kendall, the violin pedagogue who brought Suzuki teaching techniques to the US, has died at the age of 93. Kendall, who studied at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Columbia University Teachers College, was introduced to the Suzuki method in 1958, when he saw a film of 750 Japanese ...
