Ludwig Streicher News
Austrian musician (1920-2003)
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2024-04-03 02:27:08
I wager that violinist Daniel Kurganov and pianist Constantine Finehouse found collaborating on historic instruments in the three Brahms sonatas to be an illuminating experience on many levels. For example, the slightly musty and registrally differentiated sonorities emitting from the 1868 Streicher piano used in Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 blend comfortably with the 1706 […]
2023-12-08 11:33:00
Dichterliebe Reimagined: Koen van Stade & Neal Peres Da Costa bring creative freedom & musical rhetoric to bear on Schumann's song cycle
[…] late 20th century and later, HIP involved instrumentalists performing in period style with singers who might go some way to modifying style but kept a modern technique with its lowered larynx and strict adherence modern musical mores. A new recording of Schumann's Dichterliebe from Koen van Stade (tenor) and Neal Peres Da Costa (piano) on Deux-Elles attempts to remedy that. For a start, Peres Da Costa is playing a modern Viennese-Action Grand Piano after one by J. B. Streicher & Sohn, of around 1868. But more importantly both van Stade and Peres Da Costa have been reading those treatises and listening to early recordings to get an idea about performance practice. It is an art rather than a science, a singer's recordings can differ from their known verbal instructions, whilst some performance practices seem never to have been discussed in print. We are talking about tradition of instruction that was still very much […]
2023-12-01 00:00:00
Chamber Music for Strings (Coull, Dante, Duke, Goldner, Jean Sibelius, New Zealand String Quartets & Ironwood)
[…] [recorded December 2019 & February 2020; issued 2020][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Eugene Goossens Hall, Ultimo Centre, Sydney, AustraliaRecording engineer & Producer: Thomas GrubbJohannes Brahms on period instruments:1.01 - 1.04 Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, op.25 [41'06]2.01 - 2.04 Piano Quintet in F minor, op.34 * [43'12]Ironwood (Rachael Beesley * & Robin Wilson- violins, Nicola Forsyth- viola, Daniel Yeadon- cello, Neal Peres Da Costa- piano - replica 1868 Streicher pianoforte)ABC Classics 481 4686 [recorded November 2016; issued 2017][digital download; flacs, cover and inlay scans; no booklet]Recording venue: Eugene Goossens Hall, Ultimo Centre, Sydney, AustraliaRecording engineer & Producer: Virginia ReadAntonin Dvořák:01 - 03 Piano Quintet No. 1 in A major, op.5 B.28 [26'53]04 - 07 Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, op.81 B.155 [39'21]Piers Lane- piano, Goldner String Quartet (Dene Olding & Dimity Hall- violins, Irina Morozova- viola, Julian Smiles- cello)Hyperin CDA67805 […]
2020-11-17 07:50:36
From Rossini's William Tell to 20 newly commissioned operas: Irish National Opera reinforces its commitment to contemporary work as a result of pandemic restrictions
[…] Gerald Barry, Éna Brennan, Irene Buckley, Linda Buckley, Robert Coleman, David Coonan, Alex Dowling, Peter Fahey, Michael Gallen, Andrew Hamilton, Jenn Kirby, Conor Linehan, Conor Mitchell, Gráinne Mulvey, Emma O’Halloran, Hannah Peel, Karen Power, Evangelia Rigaki, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Jennifer Walshe. It is one of the biggest single-event commissioning projects in Irish classical music. And the subjects of the operas are equally eclectic, from Beethoven’s letters about troublesome servants and laundry dilemmas (Gerald Barry's Mrs Streicher) to a marine biologist’s meditations ‘on the enigmatic figure of Libris Solar, an alchemical blend of human, non-human and neoprene’ (Jennifer Walshe's Libris Solar). The project has reinforced the company's commitment to contemporary opera, as artistic director Fergus Sheil explains, "We’ve already performed Donnacha Dennehy’s The Second Violinist [see Ruth's review], gave the world premiere of Brian Irvine’s Least Like the Other and Evangelia Rigaki’s This Hostel Life, and we are committed to staging […]
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