All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 74
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ArticleBritish Women Composers. Smyth: Violin Sonata in A minor op.7. Maconchy: Three Preludes. Wieniawska (Poldowski): Violin Sonata in D minor. Tate: Triptych. Barns: La chasse
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A welcome survey of violin music by women composersMusicians: Clare Howick (violin) Sophia Rahman (pianoComposer: Smyth, Maconchy, Wieniawska (Poldowski), Tate, BarnsEthel Smyth’s 1887 violin sonata was rejected by everyone after its Leipzig premiere, including Joachim. Clare Howick and Sophia Rahman, performing with ...
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ArticleCapricho Latino. Works by Albéniz, Cordero, Espejo, Quiroga, Ysaÿe, González, White, Tárrega, Rodrigo, Serebrier, Piazzolla & Ridout
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Description: The American violinist explores the rich seam of solo repertoireMusicians: Rachel Barton Pine (violin) Héctor Elizondo (narrator)Composer: Albéniz, Cordero, Espejo, Quiroga, Ysaÿe, González, White, Tárrega, Rodrigo, Serebrier, Piazzolla & RidoutAs an impoverished student unable to afford a rehearsal pianist, Rachel ...
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ArticleThe Seventeenth-Century Violin. Works by Matteis the elder, Matteis the younger, Baltzer, Biber, Westhoff & Bach
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Spontaneous accounts of early violin music from a past master of the fieldMusicians: Jaap Schröder (Baroque violin)Composer: Matteis the elder, Matteis the younger, Baltzer, Biber, Westhoff & BachJaap Schröder’s imaginative anthology demonstrates the virtuosity, lyricism and rhetoric with which German or Italian ...
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ArticlePeasant Girl. Works by DuOud, Lewis, Hermann, Bartók, Barley, Kodály, N’Dour, Bratsch & Weather Report
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: The violinist returns to her rural roots with an eclectic selection of musicMusicians: Viktoria Mullova (violin) Matthew Barley Ensemble Composer: DuOud, Lewis, Hermann, Bartók, Barley, Kodály, N’Dour, Bratsch & Weather ReportViktoria Mullova has teamed up with cellist ...
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ArticleConcerto, Fantasy, Blues. Works by Telemann, Weinzierl, Bowen, Bartók, Piazzolla & Norton
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A valuable first disc from a recently formed quartet of violasMusicians: Tertis Viola EnsembleComposer: Telemann, Weinzierl, Bowen, Bartók, Piazzolla & Norton Who would have thought that a viola quartet named after Lionel Tertis would be founded not in England but ...
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ArticleZemlinsky: Cello Sonata in A minor, Three pieces for cello and piano, Maiblumen blühten überall, Two Pieces for string quintet
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Chamber music from the hothouse of late 19th-century ViennaMusicians: Zemlinsky Quartet, Josef Kluso? (viola) Michal Ka?ka (cello) Jaromír Klepá? (piano) Lucie Hájková (soprano) Composer: ZemlinskyThanks to the scholarship of Antony Beaumont, many previously unknown works by fin-de-siècle Viennese composer Alexander Zemlinsky are ...
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ArticleQuartettsatz. Works by Wolf, Webern, Schoenberg, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Britten, Sibelius & Rachmaninoff
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A resourceful collection of single movements for string quartetMusicians: Alfama QuartetComposer: Wolf, Webern, Schoenberg, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Britten, Sibelius & Rachmaninoff Although named after a colourful district of Lisbon, the young Alfama Quartet (founded in 2005) is based in Brussels, its members ...
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ArticleMantzaros/Fenaroli: Partimenti for string quartet
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Eighteenth-century harmony exercises that fail to rise above the pedagogicalMusicians: Ionian QuartetComposer: Mantzaros/FenaroliThis example of home industry features recordings of music from a selection of manuscripts housed in the Rombotis Archive in Corfu’s Ionian University, performed by the University’s own ensemble. Although ...
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ArticleSentimental Swing
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A hazily recorded disc of jazz standards that doesn’t swing enoughMusicians: Duane Padilla (violin) Stephen Jones (double bass) Tennyson Stephens (piano)Composer: Various Duane Padilla has chosen the most standard of jazz standards for this trio album. So something fairly remarkable ...
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Demonstrators disrupt Proms concert by Gil Shaham and Israel Philharmonic
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators repeatedly interrupted last Thursday's BBC Proms concert by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. A live broadcast of the concert, in which Gil Shaham played the Bruch First Violin Concerto, was twice taken off air by the BBC because of 'sustained audience disturbance'. The protests were greeted by boos, shouts ...
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Violinist Stephanie Jeong appointed Chicago Symphony Orchestra associate concertmaster
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) has appointed Stephanie Jeong as associate concertmaster. The 24-year-old Jeong joins the CSO from the New York Philharmonic, where she has been a member of the first violin section since November 2010. Jeong, who grew up in Chicago, studied with Aaron Rosand at the ...
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UK violinist to play on Himalayan peak
A British violinist is aiming to set a new world record for the highest musical performance on land next month. Hugh Midford, 27, plans to climb a 20,305-feet (6,189m) peak in the Himalayas, and play some Bach sonatas when he reaches the summit. The violinist will be raising money ...
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Violinist Kristian Winther and violist Stephen King join Australian String Quartet
The Australian String Quartet has recruited two new players to replace departing members Sophie Rowell and Sally Boud. Violinist Kristian Winther and violist Stephen King will join the quartet for the start of the 2012 season. Winther, 27, was born in Canberra, and was violinist in the Tinalley String ...
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Cellist Yo-Yo Ma to receive Kennedy Center nod
Yo-Yo Ma has been named as one of five performers who will be honoured for their contribution to US culture at this year's Kennedy Center honours. The cellist will join fellow honorees saxophonist Sonny Rollins, Broadway singer Barbara Cook, singer–songwriter Neil Diamond and actress Meryl Streep at a gala ceremony ...
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European museums complete project to put instrumen collections online
Eleven European museums have completed a two-year project to provide online access to their instrument collections. The Musical Instruments Museums Online (MIMO) initiative cost more than €3m, with half of the funding coming from the EU. The project partners include the Cité de la Musique in Paris, the University of ...
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London Philharmonic Orchestra suspends violinist after 'rant'
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has suspended one of its violinists after she delivered an anti-Israel diatribe at a pre-Proms event. The incident happened at a Proms Plus Intro session at the Royal College of Music ahead of the BBC Proms concert by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO), which was repeatedly ...
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Violinist Igor Yuzefovich appointed Hong Kong Philharmonic concertmaster
Moscow-born Igor Yuzefovich has been appointed as the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra's new concertmaster. The Russian violinist will take up the post on 1 January 2012. The orchestra has also announced the appointment of Li Bo as co-principal viola. Since 1991 Yuzefovich has been based in the US. He ...
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Chinese cellist Bonian Tian wins Enescu Competition
Chinese cellist Bonian Tian has won first prize at the George Enescu International Competition in Bucharest, Romania. The 25-year-old, who studies with Frans Helmerson at the Kronberg Academy in Germany, received €15,000. Second prize in the cello division went to Valentin Radutiu, 25, from Romania. Michael Korman, also 25, from ...
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British bassist jazz composer and educator Graham Collier dies
British jazz bassist and composer Graham Collier has died suddenly at the age of 74. Born in Tynemouth in 1937, he became an army musician after leaving school at the age of 16. He then won a scholarship to study at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, becoming ...
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Belarusian cellist Aleksei Kiseliov joins Royal Scottish National Orchestra
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra has appointed 26-year-old Aleksei Kiseliov as its principal cello. The Belarusian musician studied with Raphael Wallfisch at the Royal College of Music in London, and with Natalie Clein at Trinity Laban.
