All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 58
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ArticleMozart in Italien. Linley: Violin Concerto in F major. Lamotte: Violin Concerto no.2 in D major. Hasse: Sinfonia from ‘Ruggiero’. Rauzzini: Sinfonia in D major. Mozart: Sinfonia in D major K111/120
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Mirijam Contzen (violin) Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic/Reinhard GoebelComposer: Linley, Lamottem, Hasse, Rauzzini, Mozart The focal works in this full concert programme, based on Mozart’s learning experiences in Italy, are the violin concertos of Thomas Linley and Franz Lamotte. Mirijam Contzen, Reinhard Goebel and ...
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ArticleMozart: Duos in G major K423 & B flat K424. Michael Haydn: Duos in C major, D major, E major and F major P127–30
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Maya Magub (violin) Judith Busbridge (viola)Composer: Mozart, Michael HaydnThese works are inextricably linked in history. Mozart ‘ghostwrote’ his two duos as a favour to Michael Haydn, who, due to illness, would otherwise have been unable to complete a commissioned set of six. ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Violin Sonatas in F major op.24 ‘Spring’, C minor op.30 no.2 & G major op.30 no.3
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Nemanja Radulović (violin), Susan Manoff (piano)Composer: Beethoven There is an operatic tinge to these live performances. Nemanja Radulović’s playing has the supple fluency of song, with eloquent and poetic use of vibrato, well matched by Susan Manoff, who has made a speciality ...
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ArticleMendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor op.64, Octet in E flat major op.20
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: James Ehnes (violin) Philharmonia Orchestra/Vladimir Ashkenazy, Musicians of the Seattle Chamber Music SocietyComposer: MendelssohnRecorded at a concert held in Warwick Arts Centre last January, James Ehnes and his conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy bring a very purposeful opening to Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto before settling ...
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ArticleMozart: Violin Concertos no.3 in G major K216 & no.5 in A major K219, Sinfonia concertante in E flat major K364
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: Febraury 2011Description: Mozart performed with a beguiling 'magic touch'Musicians: Richard Tognetti (violin/director) Christopher Moore (viola) Australian Chamber OrchestraComposer: MozartIt is staggering just how far the orchestral realisation of Classical scores on modern instruments has come in little more than 30 years. Gone ...
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ArticleBarber: Adagio for strings. Mahler: Adagietto from Symphony no.5. Strauss: Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: New Century Chamber Orchestra/Nadja Salerno-SonnenbergComposer: Barber, Mahler, StraussI have long admired Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg’s vibrant musical personality and rare ability to overcome stylistic prejudice by sheer force of musical will and electrifying spontaneity. This is her third season at the helm of the ...
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ArticleRapsodia. Enescu: Minstrel from Impressions of Childhood op.28, Violin Sonata no.3 ‘dans le caractère populaire roumain. Ligeti: Duo. Kurtág: 8 Duos for violin and cimbalom op.4. Dinicu: Hora staccato
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin) Emila Kopatchinskaja (violin/viola) MartinuGjakonovski (double bass) Viktor Kopatchinsky (cimbalom) Mihaela Ursuleasa (piano)Composer: Enescu, Ligeti, Kurtág, Dinicu, Ravel, Sanchez-ChiongPatricia Kopatchinskaja returns to her familial roots with this disc, exploring the music of her native Moldova, neighbouring Romania (which ...
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ArticleKorngold: Violin Concerto in D major op.35. Dvarionas: Violin Concerto in B minor, Pezzo elegiaco
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Vadim Gluzman (violin) The Hague Residentie Orchestra/Neeme JärviComposer: Korngold, DvarionasVadim Gluzman brings a joyously unaffected approach to Korngold’s Violin Concerto of 1945. His tone from the start is virile and his articulation pointed rather than over-sugared, and even the opening theme of ...
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American violist Emanuel Vardi dies aged 93
Emanuel Vardi, one of the leading violists of the 20th century, has died in Seattle, Washington, at the age of 93. Born in Jerusalem, he was four when his family emigrated to New York. He had violin lessons with Joseph Borisoff and Auer's assistant Khusdo, and then studied with Constance ...
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ArticleViola Transcriptions. Arrangements by Lionel Tertis and William Primrose of works by Haydn, Liszt, C.P.E. Bach, J.S. Bach, Paganini, Fauré, Rameau–Kreisler, Mendelssohn, Boccherini, Schubert, A. Benja
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Yizhak Schotten (viola) Katherine Collier (piano)Composer: Haydn, Liszt, C.P.E. Bach, J.S. Bach, Paganini, Fauré, Rameau–Kreisler, Mendelssohn, Boccherini, Schubert, A. Benjamin, Brahms, Grieg, Kreisler & Saint-SaënsLionel Tertis and William Primrose were the two most influential pioneers of modern viola playing, and a recording ...
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ArticleMéditations. Transcriptions for eight cellos of works by Bloch, Casals, Rachmaninoff, Dvorák, Offenbach, Fauré, Schumann, Wagner, Verdi & Tchaikovsky
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Les Violoncelles FrancaisesComposer: Bloch, Casals, Rachmaninoff, Dvorák, Offenbach, Fauré, Schumann, Wagner, Verdi & Tchaikovsky People usually either love or hate the sound of massed cellos – all that pulsating emotion in every part isn’t for everyone. This disc, with ...
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ArticleWallin: Livets Dans (Life’s Dance)
Musicians: Anette Wallin (violin/vocals) Harald Svensson (piano)Composer: WallinAnette Wallin is a Swedish riksspelman (nationally recognised folk musician) who has brought her fiddle, vocal and song-writing skills together here, alongside pianist Harald Svensson.All but two of the songs are Wallin’s own, and they capture the disarming, bold simplicity of ...
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ArticleVivaldi: The Four Seasons. Piazzolla: Four Seasons
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Daniel Rowland (violin) Stellenbosch University CamerataComposer: Vivaldi, PiazzollaDaniel Rowland and the Stellenbosch University Camerata have been performing this spicy cocktail of eight seasons since the ensemble was formed in 2008. Piazzolla’s Four Seasons, originally written for a small band with the composer ...
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ArticleFreedom
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Stefano Pastor (violin) Giorgio Dini (double bass) George Haslam (baritone saxophone/tarogato) Claudio Lugo (soprano saxophone)Composer: VariousIf the booklet notes for this free-jazz album, which talk of ‘an expression of militancy and belonging’ and ‘disproportion as free search for a further super-proportion’, give ...
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ArticleMeeting of the Spirits
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Matt Haimovitz (cello) John McLaughlin (guitar) Jan Jarczyck (keyboards) Matt Wilson (drums) UccelloComposer: VariousThe shadow of Villa-Lobos, hard to escape when multiple cellos meet exotic rhythms, pops up several times during these 51 minutes of eclectic string-band jazz from cello octet Uccello. ...
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André P. Larson to step down as National Music Museum executive director
André P. Larson, the founder and executive director of the National Music Museum in South Dakota, is to retire on 23 February. He established the museum, located on the University of South Dakota campus in Vermillion, in 1973. Among his major achievements was acquiring the Witten-Rawlins collection of rare Italian ...
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British violinist and concertmaster Raymond Cohen dies aged 91
British violinist Raymond Cohen, the last leader of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to be appointed by Thomas Beecham, has died aged 91. Cohen won a scholarship at 14 to study at the Royal Manchester College of Music, and at 15 began playing with the Hallé Orchestra as its youngest ever ...
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Violin making drama seeks funding
A UK filmmaker has launched an appeal via campaigns website IndieGoGo for funding for his next project, a film about a reclusive young man with a passion for violin making. Writer-director Dan Smyth from Manchester has secured financing from the UK Film Council, but needs to part-match it to the ...
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Violist Paul Laraia wins Sphinx Competition
Violist Paul Laraia has won first prize in the senior division at the Sphinx Competition for Black and Latino string players. The 21-year-old, who studies with Kim Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory in Boston, received $10,000, a series of concert engagements and a CD recording opportunity with Naxos. ...
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Two new concertmasters for Dallas Symphony Orchestra
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has appointed a concertmaster and co-concertmaster to share the leader's chair left vacant since Emanuel Borok retired last August. The two new leaders will join the orchestra for the start of the 2011–12 season. Kerr, who has held concertmaster positions at the Cincinnati, Charleston and ...
