Eniko Magyar, Tadashi Imai - The English Viola (2009)

Tracklist

01. Viola Sonata: I. Moderato
02. Viola Sonata: II. Andante
03. Viola Sonata: III. Furiant: Molto Allegro
04. Viola Sonata: IV. Coda: Andante Maestoso
05. Violin Sonata No. 3 (arr. L. Tertis for Viola and Piano): I. Slow
06. Violin Sonata No. 3 (arr. L. Tertis for Viola and Piano): II. Andante Scherzando - Meno Mosso
07. Violin Sonata No. 3 (arr. L. Tertis for Viola and Piano): III. Lento - Con Moto
08. Allegro appassionato
09. Serenade (arr. for Viola and Piano)
10. Souvenir (arr. L. Jacobs for Viola and Piano)
11. Gondoliera (arr. L. Jacobs for Viola and Piano)
12. Pensiero
13. Norse Legend (arr. L. Jacobs for Viola and Piano)
14. Berceuse (arr. for Viola and Piano)

The viola, with its plangent tone, subtle sonority and lyrical qualities, is often overshadowed by its more brilliant-sounding sibling, the violin.

An accomplished violist himself, Frank Bridge wrote little solo music for this instrument; only the Pensiero and Allegro appassionato were published in his lifetime, the other works on this disc being the composer’s arrangements of some of his violin pieces.

Similarly, Delius’s Third Violin Sonata is heard here in an effective arrangement by the celebrated violist Lionel Tertis, the dedicatee of Bliss’s expressive Viola Sonata.

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