Kind of sweet and kind of sexy, kind of sophisticated and kind of sentimental, the Mozart one encounters in this disc of his Second and Fourth violin concertos coupled with his Sinfonia Concertante by violinist Maxim Vengerov and the UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra is not the effortlessly elegant and sublimely graceful Mozart one usually ...
Powerful and compelling, this coupling of the two best British viola concertos -- William Walton's from 1929 and Edmund Rubbra's from 1952 -- should be heard by anyone who loves English orchestral music of the middle years of the twentieth century. For one thing, it contains the first modern recording of the original version of Walton's work, and ...
These concertos by English composers York Bowen and Cecil Forsyth give that oft-abused instrument, the viola, here played splendidly by Lawrence Power, a chance to grab the spotlight in the same rich Romantic vein as the violin in its most popular concertos. The first concerto here, by Bowen, is comparable to Sibelius' Violin Concerto in many ways ...
The Brahms viola sonatas, originally composed as sonatas for clarinet and piano, have nonetheless cemented themselves as cornerstones of the viola repertoire. This is not surprising, as these are truly the first serious sonatas that a major composer titled for the viola. But since Brahms had the clarinet in mind, there are inherent difficulties ...
This Hyperion two-disc set of York Bowen's viola works played by violist Lawrence Power is by far the most complete look at any aspect of the English composer's music. Of course, most of the music here was composed in the decade before the First World War, and thus presents a relatively limited view of his career. But since his music fell almost ...
This 12-disc set does indeed contain all of Brahms' acknowledged chamber works (the original version of the first Piano Trio and the possibly spurious-possibly authentic Fourth Piano Quartet are left out). And although the standard caveats for box sets holds here -- the quality of the performers is mixed and better performances of all the works ...
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