All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 67
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ArticleDragonetti: String Quintets no.11 in A minor & no.26 in B flat major, String Quartet no.2 in C major. Haydn: Divertimento in C major Hob.II:C5
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: The double bass is given a starring role in chamber music by one of the instrument’s greatest exponentsMusicians: DNA Quintet: Loma Mar Quartet, John Feeney (double bass)Composer: Dragonetti, Haydn The DNA Quintet’s recording project embraces not only Dragonetti’s 31 string quintets and ...
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ArticleSchumann: Piano Trios in D minor op.63, in F major op.80 & in G minor op.110, Six Pieces in Canonic Form op.56 (arr. Kirchner), Fantasiestücke op.88
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Mixed results in Schumann’s works for piano trio Musicians: Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Tanja Tetzlaff (cello) Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)Composer: SchumannThe only Schumann piano trio to have given posterity pause for thought is the D minor, so it bodes ill that this star ensemble is ...
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ArticleBrahms: Violin Concerto in D major op.77. Schumann: Symphony no.4 in D minor op.120
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A promising account of the Brahms Concerto marred by a lugubrious startMusicians: Arabella Steinbacher (violin) Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Fabio LuisiComposer: Brahms, SchumannHere is yet another Brahms Concerto adhering to a totally spurious, inauthentic tradition of dragging out the opening movement ad nauseam. By the ...
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Violinist Mary Rowell quits ETHEL after 13 years
ETHEL violinist Mary Rowell is leaving the ensemble she co-founded 13 years ago. She is retiring because of a heart condition, and will be replaced by Jennifer Choi, a former member of the Miró Quartet. Since its formation in 1998, ETHEL has performed more than 100 commissioned works in ...
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ArticleMendelssohn: Octet in E flat major op.20 (1825 version)
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Revelations abound in this revival of Mendelssohn’s first thoughts on his OctetMusicians: Eroica Quartet: Ken Aiso, Marcus Barcham-Stevens (violin) Oliver Wilson (viola) Robin Michael (cello)Composer: MendelssohnThe world’s first solely digital classical label launches its online sales appropriately with a world ...
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ArticleRachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor op.19, Vocalise. Borodin: (compl. Goldstein) Cello Sonata in B minor. Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor op.40
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Stunning accounts of three Russian cello sonatasMusicians: Alexander Chaushian (cello) Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)Composer: Rachmaninoff, Borodin, ShostakovichWith this, his second disc for BIS, Alexander Chaushian, a name to watch since he won third prize in the 2002 Tchaikovsky Competition, establishes himself firmly in ...
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ArticleTaneyev: String Quartets nos.2 & 4
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Sympathetic accounts of string quartets by an important but neglected Russian composerMusicians: Carpe Diem QuartetComposer: TaneyevSergei Taneyev was a musical phenomenon. By the age of ten he was studying piano at the Moscow Conservatoire and just three years later became Tchaikovsky’s composition pupil. He was only ...
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ArticleLe Violoncelle Parle. Britten: Suite for solo cello no.3 op.87. Cassadó: Suite for solo cello. Amoyel: Itinérance. Kodály: Sonata for solo cello op.8
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Four highly varied solo cello works are given memorable performancesMusicians: Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello)Composer: Britten, Cassadó, Amoyel, KodályMuch-recorded French cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand brings her own blend of flair, elegance and impressive technique to these solo cello staples, resulting in stylish and characterful intepretations.Cassadó’s Suite, ...
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Two biopics about Italian composer Vivaldi in the works
Shooting is set to start on one of two rival Vivaldi biopics. Director Boris Damast will begin filming Vivaldi this September in Venice, Hungary, Germany and Bruges. Young actors Max Irons and Claire Foy have been cast in the film, and Jacqueline Bisset, Alfred Molina, Tom Wilkinson and Sebastian Koch ...
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ArticleAlwyn: Violin Concerto, Miss Julie Suite (arr. Lane), Fanfare for a Joyful Occasion
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A rarely heard British violin concerto makes a distinctive markMusicians: Lorraine McAslan (violin) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/David Lloyd-JonesComposer: AlwynAt its completion in 1939, William Alwyn’s Violin Concerto already belonged to a previous generation, its influences coming from Elgar and Vaughan Williams. The central movement ...
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ArticleAston Between Worlds
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A composer–violinist’s tribute to her Cornish background lacks enchantmentMusicians: Sue Aston (violin/viola) Beck McGlade (cello) Rick Williams (guitar/double bass/clarinet) Maria Heseltine (mezzo-soprano) John Thomson (piano)Composer: Various Violinist and composer Sue Aston here presents a set of songs and folk-style tunes ...
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Violinists Frang and Repin win Edison awards
Violinists Vilde Frang and Vadim Repin have been named among the winners of this year's Edison Klassiek music awards. Frang won the Debut award for her recording of the Sibelius and Prokofiev First concertos on EMI with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne under Thomas Søndergård. Repin won the Chamber Music ...
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ArticleManto and Madrigals. Duos for violin and viola by Killius, Scelsi, Holliger, Bartók, Skalkottas, Maxwell Davies, Martinu & Nied
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A riveting collection of recent and established works for violin and violaMusicians: Thomas Zehetmair (violin) Ruth Killius (viola)Composer: Killius, Scelsi, Holliger, Bartók, Skalkottas, Maxwell Davies, Martinu & NiedThis adventurous selection of music for violin and viola begins where others end, the one ...
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ArticleBritten: Cello Symphony, Symphonic Suite from Gloriana, Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A deeply felt account of Britten’s symphony for cello and orchestraMusicians: Paul Watkins (cello) BBC Philharmonic/Edward GardnerComposer: BrittenIn using the term ‘symphony’ for the concerto he wrote for Rostropovich in 1962–3, Britten was partly trying to get away from the idea of the concertante ...
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ArticleItaly versus France. Works by Lully, Corelli, d’Anglebert, Rebel, Muffat, Couperin, Visée & Pasquini
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: The listener is the winner in this battle of musical stylesMusicians: The Bach PlayersComposer: Lully, Corelli, d’Anglebert, Rebel, Muffat, Couperin, Visée & Pasquini Debate over the relative merits of Italian and French musical styles ran through the 17th century. As Hugh Wood ...
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ArticleLe Grazie del Violino nel Seicento Italiano. Works by Marini, Selma y Salaverde, Merula, Pandolfi-Mealli, Fontana, Frescobaldi & Uccellini
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: An effective collection of 17th-century Italian music for violin and harpMusicians: Arparla: Davide Monti (violin) Maria Christina Cleary (harp)Composer: Marini, Selma y Salaverde, Merula, Pandolfi-Mealli, Fontana, Frescobaldi & UccelliniDavide Monti is fleet of left and right hands in this attractive anthology of ...
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ArticleGarcía-Fons: Méditerranées
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A lengthy tour of the Mediterranean would have benefited from being more selectiveMusicians: Renaud García-Fons (double bass/tanbur/udu/bendir/cajon/daf/palmas) et alComposer: García-FonsThis clockwise journey around the Mediterranean rim is not, Renaud García-Fons emphasises, mere musical tourism, but a meaningful journey that places melody at its heart. ...
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Vancouver Symphony players to teach at music school
A new community music school in Vancouver opens for business on 2 August, with classes starting in September. The VSO School of Music is a project of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, 32 of whose players are on the new school's 49-strong faculty. Individual and group classes will be available, and ...
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Violinist Jun Iwasaki to join Nashville Symphony as concertmaster
Jun Iwasaki is leaving his concertmaster position at the Oregon Symphony to take the leader's chair at the Nashville Symphony. The Tokyo-born Iwasaki, who studied with William Preucil at the Cleveland Institute of Music, will start his new job in September.
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Matteo Fedeli to play Piazzolla with four Stradivari violins in Cremona
Violinist Matteo Fedeli will use a different Stradivari for each movement of Piazzolla's Four Seasons of Buenos Aires at a charity concert in Cremona on 2 July. Fedeli will play the c.1730 'Vesuvius' and the 1715 'Cremonese', both of which are owned by the city of Cremona, and the 1695 'Sandars' ...
