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    Louise Lansdown, Charles Matthews - Mzansi Viola - South African viola music (2025)

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    Louise Lansdown, Charles Matthews - Mzansi Viola - South African viola music (2025)

    Louise Lansdown, Charles Matthews - Mzansi Viola - South African viola music (2025)
    FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:17:39 | 320 Mb
    Genre: Classical

    Louise will soon release her first solo album on Meridian Records “Mzansi Viola” with pianist Charles Matthews. A complete disc of world premieres of unpublished, unknown music for viola by South African composers including Joubert, Reddy, Stephenson, Rainier, Hofmeyr and Masebe. The second album also of South African music for viola will also be recorded in 2025. Thus will include music by Hofmeyr, Klatzow, Bell, Swanson, Zaidel-Rudolph, Feder and Grové.

    Kim Kashkashian, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Dennis Russell Davies - Lachrymae: Hindemith; Britten; Penderecki (1993)

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    Kim Kashkashian, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Dennis Russell Davies -  Lachrymae: Hindemith; Britten; Penderecki (1993)

    Paul Hindemith: Trauermusik; Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae;
    Krzysztof Penderecki: Konzert für Viola und Kammerorchester
    Kim Kashkashian, viola; Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 213 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 140 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1506, 439 611-2 | Time: 00:50:03

    This beautifully programmed CD presents three settings for viola and orchestra and a more eloquent statement about the beauty of the viola as an instrument would be hard to imagine (except for perhaps including Vaughan Williams' 'Flos Campi'). The viola finds that middle voice between violin and cello, a rich tone with a built in quality of mournfulness. That quality has inspired the works on this recording and the result is some of the more wistful music ever written. Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra with the superb violist Kim Kashkashian.

    Tim Hugh, Mirjam Tschopp, Bilkent SO, Howard Griffiths - Ahmed Adnan Saygun: Cello Concerto; Viola Concerto (2007)

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    Tim Hugh, Mirjam Tschopp, Bilkent SO, Howard Griffiths - Ahmed Adnan Saygun: Cello Concerto; Viola Concerto (2007)

    Ahmed Adnan Saygun: Cello Concerto; Viola Concerto (2007)
    Tim Hugh, cello; Mirjam Tschopp, viola; Bilkent Symphony Orchestra; Howard Griffiths, conductor

    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 266 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 153 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: cpo | # cpo 777 290-2 | Time: 00:55:27

    This disc strikes me as an ideal introduction to the music of Turkey’s greatest composer. Ahmed Adnan Saygun’s style might be described as “Szymanowski with a primal rhythmic feel.” If you love the composer’s First Violin Concerto then you will find here a very similar exoticism, nocturnal atmosphere, and love of voluptuous textures. The harmonic style is intensely chromatic, but also highly melodic. Like Bartók in his last period, Saygun’s handling of tonality mellowed toward the end of his life, which makes the Cello Concerto more consonant than the Viola Concerto, but both works are absolutely gorgeous and masterpieces of their kind. It’s positively criminal that no one plays these pieces regularly in concert. The performances here are excellent. Tim Hugh is a well-known cellist, and he pours on the tone with all of the rhapsodic abandon that Saygun requires. Mirjam Tschopp also is a superb violist, with a big, beefy tone that never gets swamped by the intricate orchestration. It’s also very rewarding to hear a Turkish orchestra in this music–and to find that it plays beautifully under Howard Griffiths.

    Anner Bylsma, Bob van Asperen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba, J.C.F. Bach: Sonata A-Dur (1990)

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    Anner Bylsma, Bob van Asperen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba, J.C.F. Bach: Sonata A-Dur (1990)

    Anner Bylsma, Bob van Asperen - J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba, J.C.F. Bach: Sonata A-Dur (1990)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 51:22 | 500 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: Sony Classical | Catalog: SK 45945

    That said, Anner Bylsma's disc gets a great deal more playing time. The timbre of the piccolo cello is ideally matched with the organ. While purists may balk at such unusual instrumentation, I cannot help but think such an experiment is quite in keeping with the spirit of Baroque era practices. In general, I try not to judge the success of a recording by a preconceived idea of what a musical elite would or would not approve of.

    Nigel Kennedy - Walton: Violin Concerto & Viola Concerto (1987)

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    Nigel Kennedy - Walton: Violin Concerto & Viola Concerto (1987)

    Nigel Kennedy - Walton: Violin Concerto & Viola Concerto (1987)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 56:52 | 246 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: EMI Classics | Catalog: CDC 7 49628 2

    Like his teacher Yehudi Menuhin before him, the artist formerly known as "Nige" proves to be an uncommonly dab performer on the viola. He certainly has the full measure of the 26-year-old Walton's astonishingly mature concerto (unquestionably the finest of the composer's three), penetrating to its bitter-sweet core with devastating emotional candour. Similarly, Kennedy's bitingly intense reading of the yearningly lyrical Violin Concerto earns the warmest plaudits in its characterful involvement and edge-of-seat spontaneity.

    Antoine Tamestit, Markus Hadulla, Frankfurt RSO, Paavo Järvi - Paul Hindemith: Bratsche! Viola Works (2013)

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    Antoine Tamestit, Markus Hadulla, Frankfurt RSO, Paavo Järvi - Paul Hindemith: Bratsche! Viola Works (2013)

    Antoine Tamestit, Markus Hadulla, Frankfurt RSO, Paavo Järvi - Hindemith: Bratsche! (2013)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 296 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 156 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Naive | # V5329 | Time: 01:07:12

    Bratsche! It’s not often that the German word for ‘viola’ comes with an exclamation mark attached, but the cover of Antoine Tamestit’s new release heralds something worth celebrating. Among the latest of the new star violists to record Hindemith, Tamestit brings his wonderful musical intelligence to bear on some of the greatest music written for the instrument. Tamestit has selected four contrasting works that reflect that composer’s expressive range: one of the solo sonatas, one of the sonatas with piano, and two very different works for viola and orchestra.

    Wu Man, Yuri Bashmet - Tan Dun: Pipa Concerto; Toru Takemitsu: Nostalghia; Hikaru Hayashi: Viola Concerto (2008)

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    Wu Man, Yuri Bashmet - Tan Dun: Pipa Concerto; Toru Takemitsu: Nostalghia; Hikaru Hayashi: Viola Concerto (2008)

    Tan Dun: Pipa Concerto; Tōru Takemitsu: Nostalghia; Hikaru Hayashi: Viola Concerto (2008)
    Wu Man, pipa; Yuri Bashmet, violin & viola, conductor; Moscow Soloists; Roman Balashov, conductor

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 301 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 205 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Onyx | # 4027 | Time: 01:18:02

    Tan Dun's Concerto for String Orchestra and Pipa (1999) is a reworking of one of his most popular works, Ghost Opera, written for and recorded by the Kronos Quartet. In this version, the composer's characteristic polystylism – which here includes Chinese folk song, Copland-esque Big Sky music, quotations from Bach, and vocalizations by the orchestra – comes across as a jumble, without much of a strong vision holding the disparate elements together. Pipa virtuoso Wu Man, who appeared on the Kronos recording, plays the concerto with energy and delicacy. She's ably accompanied by the Moscow Soloists, led by Yuri Bashmet. The concerto is followed by Takemitsu's Nostalghia (1987) for violin and string orchestra. Its compositional assurance, clarity, subtly nuanced orchestration, and emotional directness make it all the more striking in contrast to the Tan Dun. Here Bashmet is the impassioned soloist, with Roman Balashov conducting with great sensitivity. The three brief excerpts from Takemitsu's film scores are a pleasant stylistic diversion – light, strongly differentiated character pieces.

    Lawrence Power, BBC Scottish SO, David Atherton - Paul Hindemith: The Complete Viola Music, Vol. 3 (2011)

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    Lawrence Power, BBC Scottish SO, David Atherton - Paul Hindemith: The Complete Viola Music, Vol. 3 (2011)

    Paul Hindemith: The Complete Viola Music, Vol. 3 (2011)
    Lawrence Power, viola; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; David Atherton, conductor

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 306 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 168 Mb | Artwork included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67774 | Time: 01:12:52

    Vol. 3 of Lawrence Power's survey of the complete Hindemith work for viola features a cluster of works written for viola and orchestra in the short time between 1927 and 1930. Though Hindemith did not write a traditional concerto in the classical sense, the Op. 48 Konzertmusik, Kammermusik No. 5, and Der Schwanendreher each put the viola's abilities at the forefront of the orchestra. His personal knowledge of the instrument's technical, lyrical, and emotive abilities become quickly apparent as the viola is made to scurry around as nimbly as a violin in Konzertmusik, as emotionally rich as a cello in Trauermusik, or as colorful and evocative as a piano in Der Schwanendreher. All of these many moods are captured effortlessly by Power. His playing balances the clarity needed to execute agile passagework with the richness and depth needed for more lyrical sections. What's more, Power never gives the appearance of trying to make the viola sound like a violin; instead, he celebrates the viola's idiosyncrasies and transforms them into a rich, satisfying tapestry of sound. Joined by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under David Atherton, Vol. 3 of Power's hefty undertaking is just as worthwhile and engaging as the previous two and is certainly worth checking out.

    Morton Feldman - The Viola In My Life (2008)

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    Morton Feldman - The Viola In My Life (2008)

    Morton Feldman - The Viola In My Life (2008)
    EAC | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 39:40 | 312 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: ECM New Series | Catalog: ECM 1798

    Morton Feldman’s The Viola in My Life (1970/71) is a work of great scope and detail. Each of its first three parts is scored for viola and a variety of chamber ensembles, while the last pairs viola with orchestra in what Feldman calls a “translation” of the first three. Unlike his earlier forays into indeterminacy, Viola is thoroughly composed. Its genius lies in Feldman’s ability to forge massive amounts of empty space into a layered resonance that is anything but “minimal.” The music slowly undulates in tune with the viola’s crests and fades, touched by patches of darkness like a figure slowly walking through lattice-obstructed sunlight.

    David Aaron Carpenter, Riitta Pesola, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Joseph Martin Kraus: Viola Concertos (2012)

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    David Aaron Carpenter, Riitta Pesola, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Joseph Martin Kraus: Viola Concertos (2012)

    David Aaron Carpenter, Riitta Pesola, Tapiola Sinfonietta - Joseph Martin Kraus: Viola Concertos (2012)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 61:51 | 298 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: Ondine | Catalog: ODE 1193-2

    This new release features the first-ever commercial recording of three newly discovered viola concertos by German-born Swedish composer Joseph Martin Kraus. Joseph Martin Kraus was one of the most innovative composers of his time. With Mozart, he was described by Haydn as one of only two geniuses he knew. Recipient of the 2011 Leonard Bernstein Award and of the 2010 Avery Fisher Career Grant, David Aaron Carpenter has emerged as one of the world's most promising young artists. The Philadelphia Inquirer describes him as being “in a league with the best.”

    Gerard Causse, Paul Meyer, Francois-Rene Duchable, Kent Nagano - Max Bruch: Works for Clarinet and Viola (1990)

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    Gerard Causse, Paul Meyer, Francois-Rene Duchable, Kent Nagano - Max Bruch: Works for Clarinet and Viola (1990)

    Max Bruch: Works for Clarinet and Viola (1990)
    Gérard Caussé (viola), Paul Meyer (clarinet), François-René Duchable (piano)
    Orchestre De L'opéra De Lyon; Kent Nagano, conductor

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 292 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 150 Mb | Scans ~ 44 Mb
    Genre: Classical | Label: Erato | # 2292-45483-2 | Time: 01:05:24

    For two consecutive years listeners to Classic FM have voted Max Bruch’s First Violin Concerto their favourite among 300 classical works. His melodies have instant appeal and it is good to see three comparative rarities on this disc. Bruch loved alto-register instruments such as the clarinet and viola, and he wrote these works in 1911 when giant leaps were taking place in the development of music, all of which he eschewed in favour of mid-19th-century Romanticism. While the clarinet rides orchestral accompaniment with no difficulty, the viola sits right in the middle and can be drowned (a hazard in performing the Double Concerto but avoided in the recording studio). The viola Romance is a gem, while the Eight Pieces are colourful and varied. All the performers do ample justice to this beautiful and unashamedly Romantic music.

    La Rêveuse - Marin Marais: Pièces de viole (2018)

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    La Rêveuse - Marin Marais: Pièces de viole (2018)

    La Rêveuse - Marin Marais: Pièces de viole (2018)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 63:30 | 320 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: Mirare | Catalog: MIR 386

    Marin Marais possesses the grace, elegance and wit so appealing in the goût français of the eighteenth century. The character pieces of his last two books depict portraits, landscapes and little genre scenes in painterly fashion, and are an unsurpassed highpoint of the viol repertory.

    Charivari Agréable - Marais: Musique pour la Viole (1996)

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    Charivari Agréable - Marais: Musique pour la Viole (1996)

    Charivari Agréable - Marais: Musique pour la Viole (1996)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:16:19 | 463 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: ASV Digital | Catalog: ASVCDGAU152

    Marais (1656-1728) was once among the least-known French baroque composers, a specialist in the viole (or viola da gamba), an instrument that was already obsolescent in his lifetime but one that he raised to unprecedented heights of technical finesse and expressive power. Now, since the film "Tous les Matins du Monde," in which his role was taken by Gerard Depardieu, his discography has risen to a full, well-deserved column in the Schwann-Opus catalogue. This beautifully styled recording of three suites and a caprice by the Charivari Agreable trio is a fine addition to his discography.

    Matt Haimovitz, Jonathan Crow, Douglas McNabney - J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations (2008)

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    Matt Haimovitz, Jonathan Crow, Douglas McNabney - J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations (2008)

    Matt Haimovitz, Jonathan Crow, Douglas McNabney - J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations (2008)
    WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 394 MB | 01:13:09
    Genre: Classical | Label: Oxingale Records

    The now infamous story of how J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations received their name – that Bach was asked to write them as a sleep aide of sorts for Count Kaiserling, whose assistant (Goldberg) would play music to help the Count fall asleep – has been found to be a somewhat unlikely and dubious account. Still, with few competing explanations, this at least makes for a good story. The variations have been analyzed and dissected by theoreticians, mathematicians, and even numerologists perhaps more than any other of Bach's works.

    Yuri Bashmet, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev - Kancheli: Styx, Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto (2002)

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    Yuri Bashmet, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev - Kancheli: Styx, Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto (2002)

    Yuri Bashmet, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev - Kancheli: Styx, Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto (2002)
    EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:09:50 | 243 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 471494

    This pair of single-movement viola concertos written for Yuri Bashmet justify his renown. In both, he is able to draw an impressive variety of expressions from his instrument with seeming ease. On the other hand, it's obvious there was a lot of thought and care put into his interpretations. The concertos need thoughtful interpretations by the soloist and the conductor, not because the pieces are necessarily complex in rhythm or harmony, but they are complex in tone and color.