All Reviews articles – Page 157
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ArticleVeale: String Quartet, Impromptu for solo recorder, Triptych for Recorder and String Quartet. Crawford: Elegiac Quintet, Three Two-Part Inventions, Clarinet Quintet
The Strad Issue: January 2011Musicians: Adderbury Ensemble, John Turner (recorder) Linda Merrick (clarinet)Composer: Veale, Crawford Chamber music from two lesser-known British composersBritish-born composer John Veale (1922–2006) had an early career in film music, followed by studies with Roger Sessions and Roy Harris in the ...
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ArticleLes Escapades du Roi. Works by M.-A. Charpentier, Marais, F. & L. Couperin, Forqueray, Lully, Visée, L’Affilard, Rossi, Montéclair & Lalande
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A novel programme that uses French viol music to narrate a story of love winning outMusicians: Monika Mauch (soprano) Les EscapadesComposer: M.-A. Charpentier, Marais, F. & L. Couperin, Forqueray, Lully, Visée, L’Affilard, Rossi, Montéclair & LalandeUsing music by composers who worked for ...
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ArticleCaprices Viennois. Kreisler: Violin miniatures
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A selection of some of Kreisler’s many lollipops lacks something of the master himselfMusicians: Frédéric Laroque (violin) Ryoko Hisayama (piano)Composer: Kreisler‘Kreisleriana’ has for some time occupied a neglected position among serious artists. Conversely, Kreisler’s reputation as a violinist has become rather better ...
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ArticleEnglish Music for Viola. Works by Clarke, Walton, Bridge, Bax, Bliss, Vaughan Williams & Holland
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Convincing performances that unearth some forgotten gems of English viola repertoireMusicians: Matthew Jones (viola) Michael Hampton (piano)Composer: Clarke, Walton, Bridge, Bax, Bliss, Vaughan Williams & Holland With this realistically recorded CD, Matthew Jones and Michael Hampton – collectively known as ...
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ArticleViolin and Electronics. Works by Mobberley, First, Levick, Aikman, Browning, Felice & Long
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Mixed results from a collection of music music for solo violin and electronicsMusicians: Davis Brooks (violin)Composer: Mobberley, First, Levick, Aikman, Browning, Felice & LongDavis Brooks is a violin professor at Butler University in Indianapolis and associate concertmaster of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, ...
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ArticleStachowski: Concerto for cello and string orchestra, Recitativo e la preghiera, Adagio ricordamente
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Bold and colourful concertante works for cello from PolandMusicians: Dorota Imielowska (cello) Beethoven Academy Orchestra/Piotr SulkowskiComposer: StachowskiThe cello was central to the later works of Marek Stachowski (1936–2004). The Polish composer apparently felt a strong pull to the instrument’s sound when accompanying ...
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ArticleThe Unknown Beethoven. Beethoven: Cello Sonata in E flat major op.64 (arr. Kleinheinz?), works for mandolin and piano (arr. Berger)
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A sixth Beethoven cello sonata earns its place in the repertoire Musicians: Julius Berger (cello) José Gallardo (piano)Composer: Beethoven‘Unknown’ doesn’t really apply to the Sonata op.64, whose six movements are immediately familiar as the String Trio op.3. As in Beethoven’s other cello ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Violin Concerto in D major op.61, Symphony no.7 in A major op.92
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A fresh approach to Beethoven’s Violin Concerto that includes new cadenzasMusicians: David Grimal (violin/director) Les DissonancesComposer: BeethovenFaced with such an enormous choice of recordings of the Beethoven concerto, this one at least has a unique selling point in new cadenzas composed for ...
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ArticleMendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor op.64. Tchaikovsky: Pezzo elegiaco from Piano Trio in A minor op.50
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A missed opportunity to celebrate Isaac Stern’s role in saving Carnegie HallMusicians: Isaac Stern (violin) Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) Vladimir Horowitz (piano) Israel Philharmonic Orchestra/Leonard BernsteinComposer: Mendelssohn, TchaikovskyOf course Isaac Stern’s 90th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his Carnegie Hall rescue should ...
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ArticleSchoenberg: String Quartets no.3 op.30 & no.4 op.37, Phantasy op.47
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Exemplary performances of Schoenberg’s later music for stringsMusicians: Fred Sherry Quartet, Rolf Schulte (violin) Christopher Oldfather (piano)Composer: Schoenberg These recordings of Schoenberg’s String Quartets nos.3 and 4 are surely close to exemplary. Phrasing is so beautifully shaped, and the ...
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ArticleSchumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major op.47, Fantasiestücke op.88, Liederkreis op.24
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A mixed Schumann concert that lacks songfulness and fantasyMusicians: London Bridge Ensemble, Ivan Ludlow (baritone)Composer: SchumannAfter a suitably mysterious opening, the players move pleasantly into the main tempo of the Piano Quartet’s Allegro; but the live recording, before a blessedly quiet audience, ...
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ArticleInsects and Paper Airplanes l. Dillon: String Quartets no.2 (Flight), no.3 (Air) & no.4 (The Infinite Space), What Happened
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Rock music and gliding are among the inspirations behind a series of string quartetsMusicians: Daedalus Quartet, Benjamin Hochman (piano)Composer: DillonIt’s a rare achievement to combine rigorous intellectualism with wit, spontaneity and fun, but the chamber works by US composer Lawrence Dillon (currently ...
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ArticleThe Trio Sonata in 18th-Century England. Works by Ravenscroft, Handel, Avison, Boyce, Arne, Abel & Erskine
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Little-known composers come to life on a disc of English trio sonatasMusicians: London BaroqueComposer: Ravenscroft, Handel, Avison, Boyce, Arne, Abel & Erskine This latest addition to London Baroque’s growing discography of English and European trio sonatas is a survey of both a ...
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ArticleD'Erlanger: Violin Concerto in D minor op.17, Poème in D major. Cliffe: Violin Concerto in D minor
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Mellifluous accounts of two rare Romantic violin concertos in Hyperion’s ongoing seriesMusicians: Philippe Graffin (violin) BBC National Orchestra of Wales/David Lloyd-JonesComposer: D'Erlanger, CliffeI can’t imagine I’m alone in having never heard a note of Frédéric d’Erlanger (1868–1943) or Frederic Cliffe ...
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ArticleMozart: String Quartets in C major K157, in B flat major K458 ‘Hunt’ & in B flat major K589
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2011Description: First-rate accounts of three varied Mozart quartetsMusicians: Jerusalem QuartetComposer: MozartFor this sublime disc the Jerusalem Quartet chooses one ‘Italian’ work, one ‘Haydn’ and one ‘Prussian’. The playing in the three-movement early piece is alert and very beautiful: the wistful Andante ...
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ArticleBach: Reconstructions and Transcriptions for Strings: Orchestral Suite BWV1067, Fugue in G minor BWV539/1001, Concerto in E minor BWV1053/169/49, Goldberg Variations BWV988 (selection)
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Sensuous performances of Bach arranged for string ensembleMusicians: Furor Musicus/Antoinette Lohmann (viola)Composer: BachThis is period instrument performance at its most warmly engaging and least didactic. Beautifully recorded in an ecclesiastical setting, Bach’s contrapuntal miracles create the strange impression of musical weightlessness as ...
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ArticleRubbra: String Quartets no.1 in F minor op.35, no.3 op.112 & no.4 op.150
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Vindication for an under-appreciated English composerMusicians: Maggini QuartetComposer: RubbraThis latest instalment in the Maggini Quartet’s survey of British music for Naxos completes the Rubbra set: the players have already recorded the Second Quartet on a disc that also includes his First Piano ...
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ArticlePiston: String Quartets nos.1, 3 & 5
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: Confident performances of string quartets from an American neo-ClassicistMusicians: Harlem QuartetComposer: PistonBy comparison with Copland’s ‘voice of America’ style and Barber’s post-Romantic impulses, Walter Piston was more of a traditionalist, one whose absorption of Stravinsky, Bartók and Hindemith into a highly individual ...
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ArticleRaphael: Violin Concerto no.2 op.87, Solo Violin Sonata op.46 no.2, Duos op.47 nos.1, 2 & 6, Violin Sonatas op.12 no.1 & no.3 op.43, Sonatina op.52, Jabonah op.66a, Sonata for violin & organ op.36
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: A concerto and chamber music from a forgotten figure of 20th-century German musicMusicians: Christine Raphael (violin) Max Rostal (violin/viola) Ulf Rodenhäuser (clarinet) Rainer Gepp, Ernst Gröschel (piano) Wolfgang Stockmeier (organ) Northwest German Philharmonic/Jorge RotterComposer: RaphaelGünter Raphael (1903–60) was a German composer and ...
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ArticleBeamish: Violin Concerto, Callisto, Symphony no.1
The Strad Issue: January 2011Description: An affecting, war-ravaged violin concerto played by its dedicateeMusicians: Anthony Marwood (violin) Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Martyn BrabbinsComposer: BeamishSally Beamish’s 1994 Violin Concerto was written for Anthony Marwood. At his suggestion, it takes Erich Maria Remarque’s novel of the First World War, All ...
