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Sola: Music for Viola by Women Composers
Rosalind Ventris (viola)
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Premiere
Ventris brings absolute technical assurance and a vivid sense of line...Among the many excellent more contemporary works, Amanda Feery’s Boreal s especially powerful...In all, beautifully performed...
Sola: Music for Viola by Women Composers
Rosalind Ventris (viola)
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Premiere
Ventris brings absolute technical assurance and a vivid sense of line...Among the many excellent more contemporary works, Amanda Feery’s Boreal s especially powerful...In all, beautifully performed...
About
Rosalind Ventris’s debut solo album features a selection of music for unacccompanied viola composed between 1930 (Imogen Holst’s impressive Suite for Viola) and the present day (a 2020 lockdown miniature by Thea Musgrave). The largely British and Irish programme allows Ventris to revive substantial works by important yet still often overlooked twentieth-century composers – not only Holst but also Lillian Fuchs, Elizabeth Maconchy, Elisabeth Lutyens and Gra_yna Bacewicz – alongside more recent additions to the repertoire from Musgrave, Sally Beamish and Amanda Feery. With several of the composers themselves professional string players, this is, in Ventris’s words, ‘wonderful music – that just happens to be by women composers’.
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Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineMarch 2023Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone MagazineApril 2023Editor's Choice
March 2023
Ventris brings absolute technical assurance and a vivid sense of line...Among the many excellent more contemporary works, Amanda Feery’s Boreal s especially powerful...In all, beautifully performed and recorded.
April 2023
With sound that brings out the full timbral and expressive range of the musician’s playing, this adds up to a consistently impressive statement of intent.
26th February 2023
The British musician Rosalind Ventris’s choices are as rich and illuminating as her performances. One of the many highlights is Lillian Fuchs’s wonderfully knotty and sonorous Sonata Pastorale, the second movement at once fragile and robust.
2nd February 2023
[Ventris] lavishes gorgeously full-bodied playing, weighty yet poised, on music by eight women. Highlights include Elisabeth Lutyens’s Echo of the Wind, Ventris’s viola all swoops and glides, Thea Musgrave’s melancholic In the Still of the Night, and a wonderfully idiomatic 1930 Suite by Imogen Holst, taken out of her usual sidekick/daughter context for once and put deservedly in the spotlight.
