The Tertis Tradition: Music for Viola & Piano

...strikingly full and rounded, with at times an almost cello-like breadth. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Jun 2009
Catalogue No: CDLX7231
Label: Dutton
Series: Epoch

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Vaughan Williams: Romance for viola & piano

Roger Chase (viola) & Michiko Otaki (piano)

Bax: Concert Piece for Viola and Piano (1904)

Roger Chase (viola) & Michiko Otaki (piano)

Bowen: Serious Dance Op. 51 No. 2

Roger Chase (viola) & Michiko Otaki (piano)

Bowen: Melody for the G string, Op. 47

Roger Chase (viola) & Michiko Otaki (piano)

Rubbra: Meditations on a Byzantine Hymn for solo viola, Op. 117

Roger Chase (viola) & Michiko Otaki (piano)

Bliss: Viola Sonata Op. 91

Roger Chase (viola) & Michiko Otaki (piano)

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Viola-player Roger Chase and his accompanist Michiko Otaki follow Roger’s pioneering Dutton Epoch recording of viola concertos by Stanley Bate and W H Bell (CDLX7216) by celebrating the Tertis tradition, again playing Lionel Tertis’s own Montagnana viola. Here we have music by Arnold Bax, York Bowen, Sir Arthur Bliss, Edmund Rubbra and Vaughan Williams. Bax’s Concert Piece, his early passionate encounter with Ireland, and the two Melodies by Bax’s friend York Bowen are ripely romantic and lyrical effusions, contrasting with the virtuosic, coruscating Sonata by Bliss, and Rubbra’s calmly soaring Meditation on a Byzantine Hymn ‘O Quando in Cruce’.

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May 2010

...strikingly full and rounded, with at times an almost cello-like breadth.

January 2010

…Chase and his recital partner, Michiko Otaki, forge a most stylish, intuitive alliance throughout… a very likeable and thoroughly recommendable anthology.

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