Featured Recordings -
Recent Recordings by NYVS Members and Friends:
Solo Viola D'Amore - Garth Knox
A recording of improvisations on the Viola D'amore
Performed by Garth Knox
Download this online only album at SHSK'H (download is free - but please make a contribution with your PayPal Account).
Neharót
Music by Olivero, Mansurian, Komitas and Eitan Steinberg
Performed by Kim Kashkashian
Viola Spaces
Music by Garth Knox for multiple Violas and other ensembles
Performed by Garth Knox and friends
"Prestidigitation"
Music for Viola and Electronics
Performed by Melia Watras
"Music for Viola and Cello"
Music of Beethoven, Clarke, Hindemith, Lutoslawski and Piston
Performed by Sheila Browne
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"Klap Ur Handz"
Music of Schickele, Moravec, Gershwin and DBR
Performed by the Lark Quartet (violist Katheryn Lockwood)
Complete Solo Viola Music of Lillian Fuchs
Performed by Jeanne Mallow
American Journeys
Viola Concerti by Al Hoose, William Thomas McKinley, Helen
Stanley and Newton Strandberg
Performed by Karen Dreyfus
York Bowen Viola Music
Includes York Bowen's Viola Concerto and Second Sonata
Performed by Doris Lederer, pianist Bruce Murray and
the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Paul Polivnick,
Conductor
Spiral: Viola and electronics in a mix
of modern classical, jazz, blues with a touch of the middle
east and gypsy influences.
Performed by
Leanne Darling
Telemann - Fantasias
Performed by
Patricia McCarty
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Recently Released Viola Recordings and other Viola Recordings
of Interest
- Garth Knox: Improvisations.
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- Kim Kashkashian: Neharót.
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- Garth Knox: Viola Spaces.
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- Melia Watras: Prestidigitation.
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- Kim Kashkashian: Asturiana - Songs from Spain and Argentina
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- Sheila Browne: Music for Viola and Cello
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- Kathryn Lockwook (The Lark Quartet): Klap Ur Handz
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- Jeanne Mallow: Complete Solo Viola
Music of Lillian Fuchs
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- Karen Dreyfus: American Journeys:
New Viola Concerti
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- Doris Lederer: York Bowen Viola Music
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- Leanne Darling: Spiral
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- Patricia McCarty: Telemann Fantasias.
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Garth Knox
Improvisations
SHSK'H Volume 5 (2010, recorded 2009)
Garth Knox, Viola D'amore
Improvisations on the Viola D'amore
Tracks: Oriental Blues; Sympathetic spheres I; Double digital Duo; Bottleneck bow scan; Homage to Jack Vanarsky; Fabula Fantasy; Sympathetic spheres II, Other colour
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Kim Kashkashian
Neharót
ECM New Series 2065 (2009)
Kim Kashkashian, Viola
Robyn
Schulkowsky, Percussion
An Raskin - Accordion
Philipp Jungk - Percussion
Lea Avraham, Ilana Elia - Voices on tape
Müchener Kammerorchester - Alexander Liebreich, Conductor
Boston Modern Orchestra Project - Gil Rose, Conductor
Kuss Quartet: Jana Kuss, Oliver Wille, William Coleman, Felix Nickel
Betty Olivero - Neharót, Neharót
Tigran Mansurian - Tagh for the Funeral of the Lord
Komitas (arr. Mansurian) - Oror
Tigran Mansurian - Three Arias (Sung out the Window Facing Mount Ararat)
Eitan Steinberg - Rava Deravin, for Viola and String Quartet
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Garth Knox
Viola Spaces
Mode 207 (2009)
Garth Knox, Viola
Johannes Eva, Viola
Julien Heichelbech, Viola
Cyprien Busolini, Viola
Aurélien Grais, Viola
Marie Petit, Viola
Carol Robinson, Clarinet
Nathalie Chabot, Violin
Agnès Vesterman, Cello
Gérard Buquet, Tuba
Garth Knox - Viola Spaces (eight concert studies) (2007):
Nine fingers
One finger
Beside the bridge
Ghosts
Harmonic horizon
Rapid repeat
In between
Up, down, sideways, round
Viola Spaces Variations on Marin Marais for 4 violas
Garth Knox -
La Valse de la Vineuse for viola d'amore, clarinet, violin and cello (2005)
Garth Knox - Jonah and the Whale for viola and tuba (1996)
Garth Knox - Ockeghem Fantasy for viola d'amore and 5 violas (2001)
For more information - visit: Mode Records
For videos about these works: http://garthknox.org/spaces.html
The music can be ordered at: www.schott-music.com/shop/1/show,236087.html
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Melia Watras
Prestidigitation
Fleur De Son 57992 (2008)
Melia Watras, Viola
William George, Tenor
Richard Karpen (born 1957) -
Aperature for amplified viola and interactive
electronics (2006)
Juan Pampin (born 1967) -
Nada for viola and live electronics (2006)
Heinrich Taube (born 1953) -
Tacoma Narrows for viola and tape (2006)
Diane Thome (born 1942) - And Yet... for viola and computer-realized sound
(2006)
Brent Michael Davids (born 1959) -
Viola Jokes (2005) [with William George]
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out more about this recording.
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Kim Kashkashian
Asturiana - Songs from Spain and Argentina
ECM New Series 9679 (2007)
Kim Kashkashian, Viola
Robert Levin, Piano
Manuel de Falla - Asturiana
Enrique Granados - Four Songs, from Tonadillas al estilo antiguo
Carlos Guastavino - La rosa y el sauce
Alberto Ginestera - Triste
Xavier Montsalvatge - Four Songs from Cinco canciones negras
Manuel de Falla - Siete canciones populares espanolas
Carlos Guastavino - Five Songs: Se equivoco la paloma...; Abismo de sed; Pampamapa; Bonita
rama de sause; La rosa y el sauce
Carlos Lopez Buchardo - Two Songs from Cinco canciones argentinas al estilo popular
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out more about this recording.
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Sheila Browne
Music for Viola and Cello
Centaur 2798 (2006, recorded 2005)
Sheila Browne, Viola
Wesley Baldwin, Cello
Paul Hindemith - Duo for Viola and Cello
Witold Lutoslawski - Bucolics for Viola and Violoncello (Bukoliki)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Duet for Viola and Cello in E flat major, WoO 32
("With eyeglasses obligato")
Rebecca Clarke - Two Pieces for Viola and Cello (1917)
Walter Piston - Duo for Viola and Cello
Dan Coleman - Dezembrum for Viola and Cello
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Kathryn Lockwook (The Lark Quartet)
"Klap Ur Handz"
END-Endeavour Classics 1018 (2006)
Kathryn Lockwood, Viola
Maria Bachmann, Violin
Deborah Buck, Violin
Astrid Schween, Cello
Yousif Sheronick, Percussion
Schickele - Scherzo from Quartet No. 2 “In Memoriam”
Moravec - Atmosfera a Villa Aurelia
Moravec - Vince & Jan: 1945
Gershwin (arr. Silverman) - He Loves and She Loves / Fascinatin’ Rhythm
/ Do It Again / Clap Your Hands / Sweet & Low Down
Roumain - Quartet No. 5 “Rosa Parks”
Roumain - Klap Ur Hands [Remix with Percussion]
The Lark Quartet, Maria Bachmann and Deborah Buck violins;
Kathryn Lockwood, viola and Astrid Schween, cello, are featured on
Klap Ur Handz, a new Endeavor Classics recording. The CD of all
American composers features world premieres by Daniel Bernard
Roumain (DBR) and Paul Moravec, a quartet by Peter Schickele,
as well as never before recorded arrangements of five Gershwin songs.
This Klap Ur Handz recording of an American musical landscape
represents the Lark Quartet's long-time association with new music
and adventuresome programming. The recording includes traditional
string quartet performances and explores a fresh innovative style
with contemporary music including a remix of Daniel Bernard Roumain’s
(DBR) Quartet No. 5 with a hip-hop drum track.
Performing with a unique blend of excitement, individuality,
technical brilliance and an unusually sonorous quartet sound,
the Lark Quartet is critically acclaimed for a strong presence of
each member of the quartet. These performers have combined to
form a "polished and warmly communicative ensemble" that delivers
"a performance of grace, proportion, and burnished brilliance,"
according to Tim Page of the Washington Post.
More information:
www.allegro-music.com
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Jeanne Mallow
Lillian Fuchs Solo Works
Naxos 8.557932-33 (2006)
Jeanne Mallow, Viola
Lillian Fuchs - 16 Fantasy Etudes
Lillian Fuchs - Sonata Pastorale
Lillian Fuchs - 15 Characteristic Studies
Lillian Fuchs - 12 Caprices
Karen Dreyfus
American Journeys
MMC Records 2149 (2006)
Karen Dreyfus, Viola
Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava), Vladimir Valek, Conductor
(Stanley)
Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerzy Swoboda, Conductor (Stranberg
and Hoose)
Warsaw National Philharmonic, Carl St. Clair, Conductor (McKinley)
Al Hoose - Excursions, for Viola and Orchestra
William Thomas McKinley - Concert Variations
Helen Stanley - Concerto Romantico
Newton Strandberg - Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
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information and to order.
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Doris Lederer
Bowen Viola Works
Centaur CRC 2786 (2006, recorded 2004)
Doris Lederer, Viola
Bruce Murray, Piano
Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Paul Polivnick, Conductor
York Bowen - Viola Concerto in C minor, Op. 25 (1907)
York Bowen - Sonata for Viola and Piano in F Major (No. 2) (1911)
York Bowen - Melody for the C String, Op. 51, No. 2
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more information and to order.
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Leanne Darling
Spiral
(2006, recorded 2005)
Leanne Darling, Viola
Viola and electronics in a mix of modern classical,jazz, blues
with a touch of the middle east and gypsy influences. Tracks: 1.
Pollock, 2. Boom Blues, 3. Bad Haircut, 4. 13, 5. Taqsim, 6. Spiral,
7. Mirage, 8. Gypsy Dream, 9. Viola Split (Griffiths), 10. Aftershock
For more information and to order: cdbaby.com/cd/leannedarling
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Patricia McCarty
Telemann Fantasias
Ashmont (2006)
Patricia McCarty, Viola
Georg Philipp Telemann - 12 Fantasias for Viola
Fantasia X in G major
Fantasia I in Eb major
Fantasia II in C major
Fantasia III in Bb minor
Fantasia XI in Bb major
Fantasia XII in D minor
Fantasia VII in Ab major
Fantasia IX in E minor
Fantasia IV in G major
Fantasia VI in A minor
Fantasia VIII in A major
Fantasia V in D major
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more information and to order.
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