Walton - Viola Concerto
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Special offer. Walton: Viola Concerto, Partita for Orchestra & Sonata for String Orchestra
RecommendedJames Ehnes (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Ehnes, long established as one of the world’s leading violinists, doesn’t offer the same hefty, almost cello-like weight of tone on the viola as some of his specialist colleagues. Then again,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 28th April 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Walton & Rubbra - Viola Concertos
RecommendedLawrence Power (viola)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov
…Lawrence Power's… playing is stunningly precise, crisply articulated and beautifully projected, with no hint of the little scrambles and occasionally pinched tone that beset even quite famous... —
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Building a Library, November 2007, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Concerto
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Building a Library, March 2023, Recommended Recording
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British Music Collection - William Walton - The Centenary Edition
RecommendedRobert Cohen (cello), Tasmin Little (violin), Paul Neubauer (viola), Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Decca's four-disc Walton Edition offers consistently fine versions of all the composer's most important orchestral works, some of them unsurpassed, in full, brilliant sound. Andrew Litton, the... —
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Building a Library, March 2002, Budget Choice
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Building a Library, October 2013, First Choice
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Nigel Kennedy
RecommendedNigel Kennedy (violin, viola)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, André Previn, Simon Rattle
Kennedy is in his element, while Previn captures the lushness of the colourful score. —
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Building a Library, November 2007, Mid-Price Choice
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Building a Library, March 2023, Also Recommended
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Britten: Violin Concerto in D minor Op. 15, etc.
RecommendedMaxim Vengerov (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropivich
When artists of the stature of Vengerov and Rostropovich tackle English music it's often a revelation, and here's some of the most ravishing string-playing ever heard in either of these masterpieces.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2003, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 46th Awards (2003), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Special offer. English Works for Viola and Orchestra
Hong-Mei Xiao (viola)
Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV, János Kovács
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Special offer. Walton: Viola Concerto, etc.
Nobuko Imai (viola)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jan Latham-Koenig
Imai's approach is slightly cool and measured, lacking the last degree of rhythmic excitement. But the lyrical passages are lovely. —
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Motherland
Works by Dvořák, Bartók, Shor, Walton
David Aaron Carpenter (viola), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazushi Ono, Vladimir Jurowski and David Parry
Carpenter is very much a Primrose man, which is just as well considering the heroic projection required for the Dvořák. Even with the cello original ringing in one’s ears, such is the charismatic... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
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Special offer. Walton - Martinů
Amihai Grosz (viola), Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle, Matthias Pintscher
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Concertos
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Special offer. Walton: Symphony No. 2 & Viola Concerto
Roberto Diaz (viola)
New Haven Symphony Orchestra, William Boughton
The Second Symphony is a wonderfully crafted work in which Waltonian electricity is not of such a high voltage as in the First. Nonetheless, William Boughton draws from the New Haven orchestra... —
