All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 83
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London Symphony Orchestra to give free Trafalgar Square performance
The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) will swap the Barbican Hall for the rather more challenging acoustic of Trafalgar Square when it performs a Stravinsky programme on Saturday 12 May. The event is the first in a new series of annual open-air performances that the LSO will give in association with ...
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Royal Academy of Music appoints violinist Margaret Faultless as head of historical performance
Margaret Faultless will become the new head of historical performance at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London in September 2012. The violinist and director will succeed Laurence Cummings in the role. Faultless has been a co-leader of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment since 1989. For ...
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Myung-Whun Chung to conduct North Korean orchestra in joint concert with French orchestra
An orchestra from North Korea will play a concert with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra in Paris on 14 March, reports AFP. Seventy musicians from the Unhasu Orchestra will join 70 players from the French orchestra to play music by Brahms, and non-classical scores, at the Salle Pleyel. ...
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Man is caught on CCTV taking quartet player's £25k violin
British Transport Police have released CCTV images of a man who took a violin from the luggage rack of a London train at around 8am on 8 February. The instrument, which belongs to Brodowski Quartet violinist Catrin Win Morgan, is a Stradivari copy by Montpellier maker Frédéric Chaudière. Worth ...
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Violinist Maxim Vengerov takes Royal Academy of Music teaching post
London's Royal Academy of Music (RAM) has appointed Maxim Vengerov to the new position of Menuhin Professor of Music. In his new role, the violinist will visit the RAM every term to work with students in masterclasses and one-to-one lessons. Vengerov will kick off his new professorship on Monday 27 ...
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Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet to take off in Birmingham
A multimedia performance of Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet has been commissioned from Birmingham Opera Company as part of a new £3.5m digital arts platform in the UK. Arts Council England and the BBC have commissioned 53 projects for The Space, which will run between May and October and be ...
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ArticleBowen: Viola Sonatas no.1 in C minor op.18 & no.2 in F major op.22, Phantasy op.54
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Discerning accounts of viola sonatas that can be overdoneMusicians: Bridge Duo: Matthew Jones (viola) Michael Hampton (piano)Composer: BowenThese are heady days for York Bowen’s music, which is being championed by a growing number of musicians on several different labels. As far as ...
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ArticleBrahms: Piano Trio no.1 in B major op.8. Smetana: Piano Trio in G minor op.15
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A largely successful coupling of two great Romantic piano triosMusicians: Weiss–Kaplan–Newman TrioComposer: Brahms & SmetanaThe Weiss–Kaplan–Newman Trio presents a powerful account of Brahms’s First Piano Trio, one where the choice of tempos in the outer movements gives an ideal sense of creative ...
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ArticleErnst: Complete Music for Violin and piano vol.2: Fantaisie brillante sur la Marche et la Romance d’Otello de Rossini, Boléro, Deux romances, Souvenir du Pré aux Clercs, Pensées fugitives pt 1, Variat
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A dazzling tribute to one of the 19th century’s real virtuoso fiddlersMusicians: Sherban Lupu (violin) Ian Hobson (piano)Composer: ErnstEven in an age noted for its dazzling pyrotechnicians, Heinrich Ernst (1812–65) was virtually in a class of his own, as anyone who has ...
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ArticleFauré: Cello Sonatas no.1 in D minor op.109 & no.2 in G minor op.117, Élégie op.24, Romance op.69, Papillon op.77, Sérénade op.98, Sicilienne op.78, Allegro commodo from Sonata no.1
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2012Description: An ideal survey of Fauré’s music for cello and pianoMusicians: Alban Gerhardt (cello) Cecile Licad (piano)Composer: FauréBar a few frequently performed masterpieces such as the Requiem, Fauré’s larger-scale works, not least the cello sonatas, seem to elude concert planners. The ...
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ReviewMendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor op.64. Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor WoO1, Fantasy op.131
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A brave coupling of two 19th-century violin concertosMusicians: Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra/Paavo JärviComposer: Mendelssohn & SchumannThe first fruit of Christian Tetzlaff’s partnership with Ondine, this disc could prove a real test of his popularity in the marketplace. Schumann’s Violin ...
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ReviewThe Soviet Experience Vol.1. Shostakovich: String Quartets nos.5–8. Miaskovsky: String Quartet no.13 in A minor op.86
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Performances of Shostakovich refreshingly free of political subtextsMusicians: Pacifica QuartetComposer: Shostakovich & MiaskovskyOver the years performances of Shostakovich’s music have become increasingly laden with political subtexts. Even the most innocent of gestures and elegant of structures are almost invariably forced ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Cello Sonata no.1 in F major op.5 no.1. Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata no.2 in D major op.58. Webern: Cello Sonata, Langsam from Zwei kleine Stücke. Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor op.19.
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A promising debut from a young Swiss cellistMusicians: Lionel Cottet (cello) Louis Schwizgebel-Wang (piano)Composer: Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Webern, Rachmaninoff, ShostakovichHere, two 21-year-old Swiss musicians present a wide-ranging programme at a concert recorded last December in the Great Hall of the Geneva Conservatoire. As ...
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ArticleHill: String Quartets nos.10 & 11, ‘Life’ Quintet*
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Antipodean chamber music that needs more stimulating advocates than hereMusicians: Dominion Quartet, Richard Mapp* (piano) singers/Mark Dorrell* (conductor)Composer: HillThis is the fourth instalment in Naxos’s survey of the 17 string quartets by Australian composer Alfred Hill (1869–1960). They’re an odd bunch. The ...
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ArticleBach: Cello Suites no.2 in D minor BWV1008, no.4 in E flat major BWV1010 & no.6 in D major BWV1012
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A disappointingly recorded survey of the even-numbered Bach Cello SuitesMusicians: Sara Sant’Ambrogio (cello)Composer: BachBach’s Cello Suites attract cellists to the recording studio like bees to a honey pot, with the result that virtually every player seems to see it as their right ...
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ArticleC.P.E. Bach: Viola da gamba Sonatas in G minor Wq88, C major Wq136 & D major Wq137 ABEL Solo Pieces in D major WK186, WK187 & WK190, Viola da gamba Sonata in E minor WK150
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: An attractive disc of 18th-century gamba sonatasMusicians: Rebeka Rusó (viola da gamba) Sebastian Wienand (fortepiano)Composer: C.P.E. BachPerfectly matched in their instinctive musicianship and stylistic sensibility, Rebeka Rusó and Sebastian Wienand can hardly be faulted in these performances, full of remarkable vision and ...
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ReviewUstvolskaya: Composition no.2 ‘Dies irae’*, Grand Duet† , Piano Sonata no.6‡
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Compelling music by a contemporary Russian who pulls no punchesMusicians: Ludus Gravis/Stefano Scodanibbio*, Rohan de Saram† (cello) Fabrizio Ottaviucci*, Marino Formenti† ‡ (piano) Laura Mancini* (wooden cube)Composer: UstvolskayaMake no mistake: this isn’t an easy disc to listen to. The reclusive Russian ...
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ReviewGrieg: Violin Sonata in F major op.8. Olsen: Six Old Village Songs from Lom Thoresen Yr op.23. Trad.: Hardanger fiddle tunes
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Norwegian music for violin and Hardanger fiddle from a skilled young playerMusicians: Ragnhild Hemsing (violin/Hardanger fiddle) Tor Espen Aspaas (piano)Composer: Grieg, Olsen, Trad.On the evidence of this recording, 23-year-old Ragnhild Hemsing is destined for great things. Already a leading performer in her ...
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ReviewSchubert: Piano Trio in E flat major D929, Notturno in E flat major D897
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A high level of playing from an international trioMusicians: Trio Latitude 41: Livia Sohn (violin) Luigi Piovano (cello) Bernadene Blaha (piano)Composer: SchubertFormed in 2009, Trio Latitude 41 was so named because of the common latitude of the cellist’s base in Rome and ...
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ArticleAmerican Music. Reich: Different Trains. Barber: String Quartet. Crumb: Black Angels
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Commanding performances of American quartets from different traditionsMusicians: Diotima QuartetComposer: Reich, Barber, CrumbThe French-based Diotima Quartet is renowned for its interpretations of hardcore contemporary music – think Ferneyhough, Boulez, Lachenmann. So the three very different American works on this disc – one ...
