All Reviews articles – Page 174
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ArticleChants D’Est. Works by Rachmaninoff, Dohnányi, Tcherepnin, Krawczyk, Prokofiev, Martinu, Mahler & Trad. Jewish
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) Sinfonia Varsovia/Christophe Mangou Composer: Rachmaninoff, Dohnányi, Tcherepnin, Krawczyk, Prokofiev, Martinu, Mahler & Trad. JewishFor her latest disc, Sonia Wieder-Atherton has devised an inspired and original musical journey through the Slavic lands. The more folk-orientated items ...
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ArticleBeethoven: Complete Sonatas for Piano and Violin
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Isabelle Faust (violin) Alexander Melnikov (piano)Composer: BeethovenAll the elements of this cycle are in place from the performance of the first movement of the first sonata op.12 no.1: a drive through to the end, within which the dwelling on a ...
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ArticleAlfano: Concerto for violin, cello & piano, Cello Sonata
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Elmira Darvarova (violin) Samuel Magill (cello) Scott Dunn (piano)Composer: Alfano Franco Alfano (1875–1954) composed a large number of piano and orchestral pieces, several operas (including a Cyrano de Bergerac) and a number of major chamber works, including three string quartets. ...
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ArticleCafé Fiddle. Music by Falla, Elgar, Debussy, Kreisler, Paradies, Moszkowski, Albéniz, Rachmaninoff, Sarasate & Gershwin
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Ben Breen (violin) Milton Kaye (piano)Composer: Falla, Elgar, Debussy, Kreisler, Paradies, Moszkowski, Albéniz, Rachmaninoff, Sarasate & GershwinRecorded in 2006 shortly before Milton Kaye’s death at the ripe old age of 97 – not that you’d know it from the golden-toned, youthfully responsive ...
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ArticleRomantic Violin Concertos. Gade: Violin Concerto in D minor op.56. Lange-Müller: Violin Concerto in C major op.69. Langgaard: Violin Concerto
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Christina Šstrand (violin) Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra/John StorgŠrdsComposer: Gade, Lange-Müller, Langgaard The rather generic nature of these three Danish violin concertos helps to remind us just how individual Carl Nielsen was as a composer in the context of his nation’s music and ...
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Article18 Piano Trios Dedicated to Haydn. Works by Krammer, Woolrich, Xiaogang Ye, Doderer, Ndodana-Breen, Sánchez-Verdú, Bolcom, Everhartz, Kakinuma, Fontyn, Hödl, Illés, Schifrin, Schnebel, Schedlberger, K
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Haydn Trio EisenstadtComposer: Krammer, Woolrich, Xiaogang Ye, Doderer, Ndodana-Breen, Sánchez-Verdú, Bolcom, Everhartz, Kakinuma, Fontyn, Hödl, Illés, Schifrin, Schnebel, Schedlberger, Kats-Chernin, Jolas & HarnikTo mark this year’s bicentenary of Haydn’s death, the Haydn Festival Eisenstadt commissioned 18 composers to write a piano trio ...
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ArticleSculthorpe: String Quartets vol.3: nos.14–17
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Goldner QuartetComposer: Sculthorpe The third volume of the Goldner Quartet’s traversal of pre-eminent Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe’s complete music for string quartet brings things right up to date, with four works from the last eleven years (two more quartets ...
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ArticleBrahms: String Quintets in F major op.88 & G major op.111
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Nash Ensemble Composer: BrahmsBrahms was pleased with his F major Quintet and Daniel Gregory Mason enthuses about it in his book on the composer’s chamber music; but in my experience, it takes a really special performance to bring it off. ...
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ArticleBrahms: Violin Sonatas no.1 in G major op.78, no.2 in A major op.100 & no.3 in D minor op.108, Scherzo in C minor from ‘F.A.E.’ Sonata
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Simon Fischer (violin) Raymond Fischer (piano) Composer: BrahmsWell known to readers of The Strad for his regular column on the technique of violin playing, Simon Fischer has been performing the Brahms sonata cycle in concert for over 25 years, though ...
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ArticleSmetana: String Quartet no.1 in E minor ‘From My Life’. Sibelius: String Quartet in D minor op.56 ‘Voces intimae’, Andante festivo
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Kocian QuartetComposer: Smetana, SibeliusWhen I was a lad, people still talked about how Oskar Nedbal played the viola in Smetana’s E minor Quartet. Nowadays we take it for granted that the opening salvos will be thrilling and tonally refulgent. Even ...
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ArticleHubay: Violin Concertos no.1 in A minor op.21 ‘Concerto dramatique’ & no.2 in E major op.90, Scènes de la Csárda nos.3 & 4
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Chloë Hanslip (violin) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Andrew MogreliaComposer: Hubay The explosive virtuosity of these two concertos by Hungarian violinist and composer Hubay are underpinned by beautifully coloured orchestral writing. Chloë Hanslip is on sparkling form, bringing to bear ...
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ArticleMartinu: Cello Concerto no.1. Foerster: Cello Concerto op.143 j. Novák: Capriccio for cello and small orchestra
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Ji?í Bárta (cello) Prague Philharmonia/Jakub Hr?šaComposer: Martinu, Foerster, NovákApart from three sensational performances, the heroes here are Supraphon’s superb engineers: listen to how in the Foerster the soloist, accompanying solo strings and woodwind snippets are separately miked, so as to produce gossamer-like ...
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ArticleKreisler: Violin miniatures: original works and arrangements
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Carlos Damas (violin) Anna Tomasik (piano) Composer: KreislerIf Kreisler’s status as one of the master violinists of the last century is beyond question, his creative talent is still largely undervalued because his forte was as an exquisite miniaturist. Kreisler’s ability to ...
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ArticleOliver/Varner: Jomo
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Mary Oliver (violin/viola) Johanna Varner (cello)Composer: Oliver/Varner This album, composed entirely by Mary Oliver and Johanna Varner, takes us on a journey through the night via a series of atmospheric, semi-improvised atonal vignettes.The opening Bedtime Story sets the tone, ...
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ArticleWalton: Cello Concerto, Façade*
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) Joan Cross*, Peter Pears* (reciters) BBC Symphony Orchestra/Malcolm Sargent, English Opera Group Orchestra/Paul Sacher*Composer: Walton This release of the European premiere of Walton’s Cello Concerto at the Royal Festival Hall on 13 February 1957 has been ...
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ArticleLiszt: Works for Violin and Piano: Première élégie, Zweite Elegie, Die drei Zigeuner – Paraphrase, Romance oubliée, La lugubre gondola, Grand duo concertant, Epithalam, Benedictus, Offertorium
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Friedemann Eichhorn (violin) Rolf-Dieter Arens (piano)Composer: LisztThis disc is impressive not only for its sensitive performances by Weimar-based Friedemann Eichorn and Rolf-Dieter Arens, but also for revealing the scope, originality and depth of Liszt’s music. From today’s perspective, it is easy to ...
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ArticleBritten: String Quartet no.2 in C major op.36. Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat major K493
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Amadeus Quartet, Benjamin Britten (piano) Composer: Britten, MozartThis is one of the first in a new series of recordings, only available as downloads, drawn from the archives of Music Preserved. Most of them were recorded live from the radio more than ...
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ArticleSay: Violin Concerto ‘1001 Nights in the Harem’, Alla Turca Jazz, Patara Ballet, Summertime Variations
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin) Fazil Say (piano) Burcu Soysev (soprano) Aykut Kösselerli (percussion) Celalettin Biçer (ney flute) Lucerne Symphony Orchestra/John Axelrod Composer: SayHaving formed a performing duo with Patricia Kopatchinskaja in 2006, gifted pianist–composer Fazil Say composed this violin concerto ...
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ArticleDebussy: String Quartet in G minor op.10. Gulda: String Quartet in F sharp minor. Puccini: Crisantemi
The Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Acies QuartetComposer: Debussy, Gulda, PucciniThe Acies Quartet from Carinthia is a brilliant young Austrian ensemble of whom one hopes to hear a great deal in the future. Its Debussy is all one could wish for: never self-indulgent, but Classically restrained, with attractive ...
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ArticleBrahms: String Quartet in C minor op.51 no.1, Piano Quintet in F minor op.34
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2009Musicians: Ébène Quartet, Akiko Yamamoto (piano)Composer: BrahmsThe Ébène Quartet offers the most highly energised and powerful opening movement to Brahms’s first quartet that I have yet encountered. The players bring turbulence to the climatic moments and a tangy quality in the ...
