Ellen Nisbeth & Bengt Forsberg - Let Beauty Awake (2017) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Songs of Travel: No. 1, The Vagabond (Transcr. E. Nisbeth for Viola & Piano)
02. Romance for Viola & Piano
03. Songs of Travel: No. 2, Let Beauty Awake (Transcr. E. Nisbeth for Viola & Piano)
04. Viola Sonata: I. Impetuoso
05. Viola Sonata: II. Vivace
06. Viola Sonata: III. Adagio-Allegro
07. Songs of Travel: No. 3, The Roadside Fire (Transcr. E. Nisbeth for Viola & Piano)
08. Cello Suite No. 3, Op. 87 (Transcr. E. Nisbeth for Viola & Piano): I. Introduzione. Lento
09. Cello Suite No. 3, Op. 87 (Transcr. E. Nisbeth for Viola & Piano): II. Marcia. Allegro
10. Cello Suite No. 3, Op. 87 (Transcr. E. Nisbeth for Viola & Piano): III. Canto. Con moto
11. Cello Suite No. 3, Op. 87 (Transcr. E. Nisbeth for Viola & Piano): IV. Barcarola. Lento
12. Cello Suite No. 3, Op. 87 (Transcr. E. Nisbeth for Viola & Piano): V. Dialogo. Allegretto
13. Cello Suite No. 3, Op. 87 (Transcr. E. Nisbeth for Viola & Piano): VI. Fuga. Andante espressivo
14. Cello Suite No. 3, Op. 87 (Transcr. E. Nisbeth for Viola & Piano): VII. Recitativo. Fantastico
15. Cello Suite No. 3, Op. 87 (Transcr. E. Nisbeth For Viola & Piano): VIII. Moto Perpetuo. Presto
16. Cello Suite No. 3, Op. 87 (Transcr. E. Nisbeth for Viola & Piano): IX. Passacaglia-Mournful Song-Autumn-Street Song-Grant Repose Together with the Saints
17. Songs of Travel: No. 4, Youth & Love (Transcr. E. Nisbeth for Viola & Piano)
18. Lachrymae for Viola & Piano, Op. 48 "Reflections on a Song of John Dowland"
19. Songs of Travel: No. 6, The Infinite Shining Heavens (Transcr. E. Nisbeth for Viola & Piano)

Despite her youth, Ellen Nisbeth has received acclaim both in her native Sweden and abroad and is one of the Rising Stars selected by the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) for the 2017/2018 season. A former student of London's Royal College of Music, she hails from a family of Scottish origin and feels a particular affinity for the landscapes of Scotland, and for the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

For her first recital disc Ellen Nisbeth has devised an all-British programme which includes her own transcriptions of selected songs from Songs of Travel – Ralph Vaughan Williams's settings of poems by Stevenson. The songs intersperse the remainder of the programme, and one of them – Let Beauty Awake – has also lent its title to the entire disc. Together with the eminent pianist and chamber musician Bengt Forsberg, Nisbeth goes on to perform the impassioned Viola Sonata composed in 1919 by Rebecca Clarke – a well-known piece among viola-players, but deserving of a wider audience.

The centrepiece of this amply filled disc is Benjamin Britten’s Third Suite for Cello, transcribed for viola by Ellen Nisbeth herself – composed for Mstislav Rostropovich, the suite is based on Russian themes which Britten only presents in full towards the end of the substantial work. The same method is used in Lachrymae, here in the original version for viola and piano, where John Dowland’s song If my complaints could passions move is presented in full at the very end of the piece.

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