All Reviews articles – Page 194
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ArticleVivaldi: Violin Concertos in D major RV206, E minor RV275, A major RV339, B flat major RV377, D major RV227 & B flat major RV381
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Marco Pedrona (violin) Ensemble GuidantusComposer: Vivaldi Marco Pedrona brings not only virtuosity but also warmth and musicality to these performances, sensitively accompanied by the five other members of Ensemble Guidantus. His playing is fresh and resilient in the opening ...
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ArticleSchulhoff: String Quartet no.2, String Quartet op.25
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Schulhoff QuartetComposer: Schulhoff Erwin Schulhoff’s Second Quartet featured on the landmark recording by Germany’s Petersen Quartet (Capriccio). The Schulhoff Quartet stands in the same splendid tradition: cellist Jonás Krejcí, who studied with William Pleeth and Lynn Harrell, has played ...
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ArticleMendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor op.64 (1832 version), String Octet in E flat major op.20, Hexenlied op.8 no.8, Suleika op.34 no.4, Auf Flügeln des Gesanges op.34 no.2
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Daniel Hope (violin) Lucy Gould (violin) Sophie Besançon (violin) Christian Eisenberger (violin) Pascal Siffert (viola) Stewart Eaton (viola) William Conway (cello) Kate Gould (cello) Sebastian Knauer (piano) Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor) Composer: MendelssohnThis is the best playing I have ...
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ArticleBrahms: Violin Sonata no.2 in A major op.100. Prokofiev: Violin Sonata no.2 in D major op.94a. Wieniawski: Variations on an original theme in A major op.15. Foster: Old Folks at Home (arr.Kreisler), J
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Alexander Gilman (violin) Marina Seltenreich (piano)Composer: Brahms, Prokofiev, Wieniawski, FosterThe 25-year-old German violinist Alexander Gilman won the loan of the 1684 ‘Croall’ Stradivari and the chance to make this debut CD as victor in the 2006 WestLB Music Competition and Instrument Award. ...
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ArticleMedtner: Violin Sonata no.3 in E minor op.57 ‘Epica’, Three Nocturnes op.16, Fairy Tale in B flat minor op. 20 no.1 (arr. Heifetz)
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Laurence Kayaleh (violin) Paul Stewart (piano)Composer: MedtnerCompleted in 1938, shortly after the Russian-born composer Nikolai Medtner made his home in England, the five-movement Third Violin Sonata outlasts most 20th-century symphonies in length. Its rhapsodic style of writing provides Medtner’s ideas with ample ...
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ArticleKlein: String Trio, Four Movements for String Quartet, String Quartet op.2, Duo for violin & viola, Preludium, Duo for violin & cello, Fantasy and Fugue
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Kocian Quartet Composer: KleinWe are lucky to have any music by Gideon Klein (1919–45). As a Jew, he was banned from studying by the Nazis. His pre-war works survived thanks to the Schoenberg scholar Eduard Hertzog, who ...
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ArticleVirtuoso Cello Showpieces. Works by Orr, Danzi, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Cassado? & Dvorák
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Maria Kliegel (cello) Nina Tichman (piano)Composer: Orr, Danzi, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Cassado? & Dvorák Maria Kliegel fulfils all the requisite technical stipulations for her chosen repertoire and in equal measure delivers interpretationsof bravura and rich characterisation. The well-balanced recording and excellent accompaniment from ...
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ArticleBusoni
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Joseph Lin (violin) Benjamin Loeb (piano) Composer: Busoni: Violin Sonatas nos.1 & 2, Four Bagatelles op.28Ferruccio Busoni’s two violin sonatas are both early works. The First Sonata (1890), a student piece that won the 23-year-old composer the Rubinstein Prize in St ...
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ArticleRoumain: etudes4violin&electronix. Featuring DJ Spooky, Peter Gordon, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Philip Glass etc
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Daniel Bernard Roumain (violin)Composer: Roumain Daniel Bernard Roumain is not new to cross-genre meetings of minds, but this series of collaborations with various luminaries from across the contemporary music spectrum, including DJ Spooky and Philip Glass, is his debut solo album. Framed ...
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ArticleMozart: Six Variations in G minor on He?las, j’ai perdu mon amant K360
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Antoinette Lohmann (violin) Vaughan Schlepp (fortepiano)Composer: Mozart Our knowledge of Margarethe Marchand prior to her marriage to composer Franz Danzi largely resides in letters written by Leopold Mozart, who taught her and her brother when they were teenagers. She became ...
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ArticleMaw: String Quartet no.3. Britten: String Quartet no.3, Three Divertimenti
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Coull QuartetComposer: Maw, BrittenNicholas Maw, now resident in America, is one of the outstanding figures from a British senior generation that includes Richard Rodney Bennett, Hugh Wood and Harrison Birtwistle. Stylistically he has more in common with the first two, ...
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ArticleAriosti: Stockholm Sonatas for viola d’amore vol.2
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Thomas Georgi (viola d’amore) Lucas Harris (archlute, guitar) Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello)Composer: Ariosti This is the second volume of the complete music for viola d’amore by Attilio Ariosti (the first was reviewed in October 2006). The Recueil de pie?ces pour ...
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ArticleHartmann: Concerto funebre, Solo Violin Sonatas nos.1 & 2, Solo Suites nos.1 & 2
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Alina Ibragimova (violin) Britten SinfoniaComposer: HartmannThe principal English biography of Karl Amadeus Hartmann lumps him in with Hindemith and Henze, and you can hear why from the angular but Classically proportioned introduction to the Concerto funebre. If he is a ...
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ArticleBach: Gamba Sonatas no.1 in G major BWV1027, no.2 in D major BWV1028 & no.3 in G minor BWV1029. C.P.E. Bach: Gamba Sonata in D major H559
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Daniel Mu?ller-Schott (cello) Angela Hewitt (piano)Composer: Bach, C.P.E. Bach: If the case must still be made for the performance of Baroque music on the wrong instruments, this CD will suffice. Daniel Mu?ller- Schott plays Bach’s gamba sonatas on the cello ...
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ArticleStravinsky: Violin Concerto*, Symphonies of Wind Instruments† , Zvezdoliki‡, Rite of Spring*
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Jennifer Frautschi (violin) Philharmonia Orchestra*, Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble† , Orchestra of St Luke’s‡, Gregg Smith Singers‡, Robert Craft (conductor)Composer: Stravinsky Robert Craft, a one-time and long-time associate of both Schoenberg and Stravinsky, thinks that the Russian ...
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ArticleA Love Supreme: The Legacy of John Coltrane
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Turtle Island QuartetComposer: Various The Turtle Island Quartet pays tribute to John Coltrane in this series of highly creative yet sensitive arrangements of his music. The players cover the groundbreaking Love Supreme suite and some of his other best-known tunes, as ...
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ArticleAlwyn: Sonata Impromptu, Sonatina, Ballade, Rhapsody, Three Winter Poems, Songs
THE STRAD RECOMMENDSThe Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Madeleine Mitchell (violin) Roger Chase (viola) Andrew Ball (piano) Iain Burnside (piano) John Turner (recorder) Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) Bridge QuartetComposer: AlwynWilliam Alwyn was one of the most underrated English masters of the last century. His vast output ranges from ...
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ArticleDvorák: Piano Quintet op.81, Bagatelles op.47
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Ensemble Explorations, Frank Braley (piano/harmonium)Composer: Dvorák Dvo?ák’s Piano Quintet contains music of many personalities, and Ensemble Explorations is unfailingly responsive to all of them. In the second-movement Dumka, the contrasting sections are clearly delineated, the dances separated by ...
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ArticleWebern: Langsamer Satz. Berg: Lyric Suite. Schoenberg: Quartet no.4
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Psophos QuartetComposer: Webern, Berg, Schoenberg While Schoenberg’s Fourth Quartet (1936) is a late flowering of the composer’s strict twelve-note period, the other two works presented here are both to some extent romantic love letters: Webern’s Langsamer Satz, written ...
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ArticleMozart: Violin Sonatas in G major K301, E flat major K302, C major K303, E minor K304, A major K305 & D major K306
The Strad Issue: January 2007Musicians: Gil Shaham (violin) Orli Shaham (piano) Composer: MozartMozart was 22 when he arrived in Paris in 1778, free of his father’s presence. With his ever-commercial mind, had brought a portfolio of works containing four violin sonatas, to which he ...
