All The Strad articles in Web Issue – Page 91
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ReviewBeethoven: Cello Sonatas in G minor op.5 no.2 & in C major op.102 no.1, Horn Sonata in F major op.17
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Raw but vital performances from a Norwegian cellistMusicians: Bjørn Solum (cello) Steinar Granmo Nilsen (natural horn) Kristin Fossheim (fortepiano)Composer: BeethovenBoth the cello and the natural horn had limitations as solo instruments at the turn of the 19th century. Add to that Beethoven’s ...
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ReviewBeethoven: Piano Trios in C minor op.1 no.3 & in B flat major op.97 ‘Archduke’
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Beethoven trio performances marked by skill and ebullienceMusicians: Trio Ex AequoComposer: BeethovenThe members of Trio Ex Aequo have mixed credentials in this genre, but their performances display a striking unanimity and maturity. This results in pleasing and perceptive chamber music ...
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ReviewKorngold: String Sextet in D major op.10*, Piano Quintet in E major op.15†
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Opulent performances of two lush chamber worksMusicians: Doric Quartet, Jennifer Stumm* (viola) Bartholomew LaFollette* (cello) Kathryn Stott† (piano)Composer: KorngoldIn this follow-up to the Doric Quartet’s well-received disc of the three Korngold string quartets (reviewed in The Strad, November 2010), the foursome ...
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ReviewBach: Six Suites de danses (Solo Cello Suites BWV1007–11). Rilke: Poetry excerpts
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: An unashamedly Romantic approach to Bach’s solo suitesMusicians: Gérard Caussé (viola) Laurent Terzieff (speaker)Composer: Bach & RilkeIn Rainer Maria Rilke’s novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, the poet enumerates what it takes to write the first line of a poem (namely, ...
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ReviewBritten: Cello Suite no.3 op.87. Bach: Cello Suite no.6 BWV1012. Ligeti: Solo Cello Sonata
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Impeccable but slightly safe accounts of three solo cello worksMusicians: Miklós Perényi (cello)Composer: Britten, Bach, LigetiMiklós Perényi delivers stunningly accurate accounts of all three solo works in this clear recording, surmounting numerous technical hurdles – and they come thick and fast – ...
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ReviewSchumann: Märchenbilder op.113. Britten: Lachrymae op.48. Shostakovich: Viola Sonata op.147
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Authoritative performances of three viola classicsMusicians: Krzysztof Chorzelski (viola) Katya Apekisheva (piano)Composer: Schumann, Britten, ShostakovichBest known as the viola player of the Belcea Quartet, Krzysztof Chorzelski presents his credentials as a recitalist of the first rank with this CD. In well-honed partnership ...
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ReviewGrieg: String Quartet in G minor op.27. Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor op.115
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A novel coupling that attempts to throw new light on two Romantic classicsMusicians: Hagen Quartet, Jörg Widmann (clarinet)Composer: Grieg & BrahmsThis CD carries a subtitle: ‘Introspective/retrospective’. The introspection is credited to Grieg’s Quartet, on the grounds that he wrote it during a ...
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ReviewSpohr: Complete String Quartets vol.15: no.19 in A major op.68* & no.22 in D minor op.74 no.3†
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Recordings that fail to get to grips with the composer’s aestheticMusicians: Moscow Philharmonic Concertino Quartet*, New Budapest Quartet† Composer: SpohrLouis Spohr was an extraordinary violinist with firmly held aesthetic views, of which we know much from his Violinschüle of 1833. Thus it ...
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Review1600. Works by G. Gabrieli, Merula, Salvatore, Macque, Frescobaldi, Castello, Zanetti, Marini, Legrenzi, Bononcini, Torelli, dall’Abaco & Anon
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A vivid portrait of a key century in the development of instrumental musicMusicians: Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini (harpsichord, organ, director)Composer: G. Gabrieli, Merula, Salvatore, Macque, Frescobaldi, Castello, Zanetti, Marini, Legrenzi, Bononcini, Torelli, dall’Abaco & AnonRinaldo Alessandrini’s fascinating programme of largely 17th-century instrumental music ...
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ReviewFox: für Johannes Kepler; BLANK; Trümmermusik: A Berlin Diary 1947; Generic Composition #8; Natural Science; Sol-Fa Canon for Aldo Clementi
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Weird and wonderful sounds for strings and electronicsMusicians: Trio Scordatura, Scott McLaughlin (electric guitar)Composer: FoxAs its name might suggest, the Amsterdam-based Trio Scordatura specialises in music that employs unusual and often ear-tweaking tuning systems, using the startling sound combination of voice (doubling ...
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ReviewBuxtehude: 7 Suonate op.2
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Trio sonatas by a composer best known for his organ and vocal musicMusicians: Purcell QuartetComposer: BuxtehudeThis disc complements the Purcell Quartet’s recording of Buxtehude’s only other published chamber collection, the seven sonatas op.1, matching it in unanimity, incisiveness and tonal transparency. ?Both ...
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ReviewMozart: Violin Concertos no.3 in G major K216 & no.5 in A major K219, Rondo in C major K373, Adagio in E major K261
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Freshly reconsidered Mozart from a young German–Japanese violinistMusicians: Susanna Yoko Henkel (violin) Lithuanian Chamber OrchestraComposer: MozartThe weighty orchestral opening to Mozart’s Third Concerto here sets the scene for performances that do not spend time looking for supposed period authenticity, but simply play ...
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ReviewGlazunov: String Quartets no.3 in G major op.26 ‘Slavonic’ & no.4 in A minor op.64, Idyll
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Immaculate performances of neglected Russian music for string quartetMusicians: Zemlinsky Quartet, Christoph Ess (horn)Composer: GlazunovIt was with his five string quartets that the young Glazunov first drew attention to himself, and had they carried the name of Borodin, they would surely have ...
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ReviewVerdi: String Quartet in E minor. Puccini: Crisantemi, 3 Minuets, 3 Fugues, Allegro moderato, Scherzo–Allegro
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Mixed results in string quartets by two Italian operatic mastersMusicians: Rome QuartetComposer: Verdi, PucciniThe Rome Quartet makes a speciality of Italian repertoire from the 19th and 20th centuries, as we are informed in the entertainingly mal-translated booklet. Hence the presence of the ...
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ReviewTchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major op.35. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor op.64
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A young prizewinner lays out his stall in two concerto warhorsesMusicians: Ray Chen (violin) Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Daniel HardingComposer: Tchaikovsky & MendelssohnIn 2008 the 19-year-old Ray Chen won the Menuhin Competition playing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. The following year he won ...
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ReviewDvorák: String Quintet in G major op.77, Nocturne op.40, Scherzo from String Quintet in E flat major op.97
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Masterly account of an unusually scored string quintetMusicians: Berlin Philharmonic QuintetComposer: Dvorák The comparative neglect of Dvo?ák’s glorious G major String Quintet is almost entirely due to its unusual scoring for two violins, viola, cello and double ...
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ReviewLegacy. Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major op.61. Kreisler: various works (arr. Van der Heijden/Garrett)
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A classical release from a crossover star ultimately disappointsMusicians: David Garrett (violin) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Ion MarinComposer: Beethoven, Kreisler (arr. Van der Heijden/Garrett) German violinist and child prodigy David Garrett was offered his first Stradivari at the age of ...
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ReviewLatin Perspective. Brouwer: Quintet for guitar and string quartet, Beatlerianas. Del Águila: Presto II. Alvarez: Metro chabacano
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: Music for string quartet and guitar from Latin AmericaMusicians: Santiago Quartet, Ahmed Dickinson Cárdenas (guitar)Composer: Brouwer, Del Águila, AlvarezThe Santiago Quartet was founded to perform Latin American music by living composers, and this recording focuses on works by the Cuban Leo Brouwer. ...
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ReviewPetits-Fours: Favourite Encores.Works by
The Strad Issue: January 2012Description: A birthday cake of a release to celebrate a leading quartet’s four decades of playingMusicians: Brodsky Quartet, Robert Smissen (viola)*† Philip Edward Fisher (piano)† Composer: Sarasate, Falla, Elgar, Dvorák, Schumann*, Kreisler† , Mendelssohn, Godowsky, Ravel, Prokofiev, Shostakovich & DebussyTo celebrate the ...
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ArticlePaganini: Violin Concerto no.1 in D major - full performance
In 2012 Shlomo Mintz celebrates 50 years of performing on stage. Here he is performing Paganini's Violin Concerto no.1 with Yoel Levi conducting the Limburg Symphony Orchestra. This concert was an initiative of a Dutch television network (TROS) and aired on TV in December 1997.Click here to read ...
