Vaughan Williams: Viola Fantasia - Works For Viola And Piano - Albion Records: ALBCD036 - CD or download

Outram catches poetically the vein of pastoral contemplation which runs through the first five of the Six Studies in English Folksong, and turns in a puckish ‘As I Walked Over London Bridge’... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 17th May 2019
Catalogue No: ALBCD036
Label: Albion Records
Length: 68 minutes

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Vaughan Williams: Suite For Viola And Pianoforte

Work length25:07

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Martin Outram (viola), Julian Rolton (piano)

Suite for Viola & Orchestra (Arr. for Viola & Piano): I. Prelude

Track length2:42

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Suite for Viola & Orchestra (Arr. for Viola & Piano): II. Carol

Track length2:15

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Suite for Viola & Orchestra (Arr. for Viola & Piano): III. Christmas Dance

Track length2:05

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Suite for Viola & Orchestra (Arr. for Viola & Piano): IV. Ballad

Track length6:03

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Suite for Viola & Orchestra (Arr. for Viola & Piano): V. Moto perpetuo

Track length3:34

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Suite for Viola & Orchestra (Arr. for Viola & Piano): VI. Musette

Track length3:11

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Suite for Viola & Orchestra (Arr. for Viola & Piano): VII. Polka mélancholique

Track length2:57

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Suite for Viola & Orchestra (Arr. for Viola & Piano): VIII. Galop

Track length2:20

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Vaughan Williams: Romance for Viola and Pianoforte

Work length6:35

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Martin Outram (viola), Julian Rolton (piano)

Romance for Viola & Piano

Track length6:35

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Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folksong

Work length7:22

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Martin Outram (viola), Julian Rolton (piano)

6 Studies in English Folk Song (Version for Viola & Piano): No. 1, Adagio [Lovely on the Water]

Track length1:30

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6 Studies in English Folk Song (Version for Viola & Piano): No. 2, Andante sostenuto [Spurn Point]

Track length1:13

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6 Studies in English Folk Song (Version for Viola & Piano): No. 3, Larghetto [Van Dieman's Land]

Track length1:11

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6 Studies in English Folk Song (Version for Viola & Piano): No. 4, Lento [She Borrowed Some of Her Mother's Gold]

Track length1:13

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6 Studies in English Folk Song (Version for Viola & Piano): No. 5, Andante tranquillo [The Lady and the Dragoon]

Track length1:21

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6 Studies in English Folk Song (Version for Viola & Piano): No. 6, Allegro vivace [As I Walked Over London Bridge]

Track length0:54

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Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves

Work length4:43

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Martin Outram (viola), Julian Rolton (piano)

Fantasia on "Greensleeves" (Arr. W. Forbes for Viola & Piano) [After Greaves' "Sir John in Love"]

Track length4:43

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Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes

Work length10:34

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Julian Rolton (piano)

Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes (Arr. J. Lenehan & M. Outram for Viola & Piano)

Track length10:34

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Vaughan Williams: Four Hymns for Tenor, Viola and Pianoforte

Work length14:04

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Mark Padmore (tenor), Martin Outram (viola), Julian Rolton (piano)

4 Hymns (Version for Tenor, Piano & Viola): No. 1, Lord! Come Away

Track length3:36

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4 Hymns (Version for Tenor, Piano & Viola): No. 2, Who Is This Fair One?

Track length3:50

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4 Hymns (Version for Tenor, Piano & Viola): No. 3, Come Love, Come Lord

Track length3:12

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4 Hymns (Version for Tenor, Piano & Viola): No. 4, Evening Hymn

Track length3:26

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Martin Outram (Viola) and Julian Rolton (piano) play all of the works of Ralph Vaughan Williams for viola and piano. Mark Padmore (tenor) joins them to record Four Hymns for Tenor, Viola and Piano.

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) learned the piano and violin from an early age, but took to the viola while still at school and continued to play it all his life; this instrument is associated with his most romantic and impassioned music. His contemporary, the great viola virtuoso Lionel Tertis, was the inspiration for two of the works presented here.

The Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra was premiered by Tertis in 1934, soon followed by a viola and piano edition. The eight movements of this lively work mainly represent dances. The short but lovely Romance is thought to have been written for Lionel Tertis at approximately the time of the First World War. It was apparently never performed and was found after the composer’s death.

The Six Studies in English Folk Song, dedicated in 1926 to the cellist May Mukle, were produced in alternative versions for cello, viola, violin and clarinet, all with piano. Folk songs were important to Vaughan Williams, who collected many of them, and this work is based on six of them. This work in turn led on to a Fantasia on Sussex Folk Tunes for cello and orchestra, dedicated in 1929 to Pablo Casalls. John Lenehan published a piano reduction of the piano part and Martin Outram has adapted the cello solo part for the viola. The Fantasia on Greensleeves derives from VW’s 1928 opera, Sir John in Love. Based on a well-known tune, possibly of the Tudor period, at incorporates another folk song, Lovely Joan.

The Four Hymns for Tenor, Viola and Piano date from just before the first world war. Based on texts dating from the 17th to the 20th century (by Bishop Jeremy Taylor, Isaac Watts, Richard Crashaw and Robert Bridges), they are weighty in mood and rise to feelings of religious ecstasy. Martin Outram plays the viola with the internationally renowned Maggini Quartet. He has recorded over 50 discs and has received a Gramophone Award, the Diapason d’Or, a Cannes Classical Award, three Grammy nominations and the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for chamber music.

Julian Rolton has worked as a pianist with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra in Canada, performed concertos by Britten, Shostakovich and Strauss in the South Bank Centre, London and Kagel’s Phantasiestcke with Martyn Brabbins and Sinfonia 21 at the Ars Musica Festival in Brussels. He was a member of the Chagall Trio which released an acclaimed premiere recording of works by Ethel Smyth on Meridian. Martin and Julian together have made recordings of works by Rawsthorne, Bliss and Arnold Bax, and a disc titled The English Viola.

Mark Padmore has established an international career in opera, concert and recital. His appearances in Bach Passions have gained particular notice, especially his renowned performances as Evangelist in the St. Matthew and St. John Passions with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle, staged by Peter Sellars. In opera Mark has worked with directors Peter Brook, Katie Mitchell, Mark Morris and Deborah Warner.

In concert Mark performs with the world’s leading orchestras. He was Artist in Residence for the 2017-18 Season with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and held a similar position with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra for 2016-17. His work with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has involved projects exploring both Bach St. John and St. Matthew Passions and has attracted worldwide acclaim. Mark has performed all three Schubert song cycles in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Birmingham, London, Liverpool, Paris, Tokyo, Vienna and New York.

Composers who have written for him include Sally Beamish, Harrison Birtwistle, Jonathan Dove, Thomas Larcher, Nico Muhly, Alec Roth, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Huw Watkins, Ryan Wigglesworth and Hans Zender.

Mark was voted 2016 Vocalist of the Year by Musical America and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Kent University in 2014. He is Artistic Director of the St. Endellion Summer Music Festival in Cornwall.

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August 2019

Outram catches poetically the vein of pastoral contemplation which runs through the first five of the Six Studies in English Folksong, and turns in a puckish ‘As I Walked Over London Bridge’ to cap the cycle…[Padmore’s] virtually evangelical approach makes his performance of the Four Hymns special.

July 2019

This latest anthology from those enterprising folk at Albion Records launches in fine style with the endearingly personal Suite that Vaughan Williams fashioned for the great viola virtuoso Lionel Tertis…Martin Outram and Julian Rolton [are] as acutely responsive to the pensive musings of the substantial ‘Ballade’ and radiant lyricism of the ‘Musette’ as they are to the quirky mischief of the ‘Polka mélancolique’ and high jinks of the boisterous concluding ‘Galop’.

28th April 2019

The Maggini Quartet’s viola player, Martin Outram, has put together a rare and beautiful programme of less familiar Vaughan Williams...The neglected Four Hymns are given vivid, trenchantly enunciated performances by the tenor Padmore.

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