This page lists all recordings of Romance for viola & piano, by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) on CD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Stanley Bate - Viola ConcertoRecorded at The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 1-3 July 2008
World premiere recordings. Top of the Epoch list for October 2008 comes a gorgeous programme of viola concertos whose previous neglect no one at Dutton Epoch can understand. Played by celebrated British viola player Roger Chase, the Stanley Bate and W H Bell Concertos are both heart-warming and tuneful scores oozing popular appeal. These remarkable finds are made even more appealing by the coupling – Chase’s own orchestration of Vaughan Williams’s wonderful Romance. The BBC Concert Orchestra is on top form under the direction of Steve Bell, and to top it all Roger Chase plays the programme on Lionel Tertis’s celebrated Montagnana Viola. “Roger Chase's playing is remarkable for the keening intensity he draws from his viola's upper register, plus the wonderful, tawny concentration of sonority lower down. And the BBC Concert Orchestra and Stephen Bell give the accompaniments their full value.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2009 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Early Chamber Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams
“...this music all tells us about Vaughan Williams' development, and that while he hadn't yet found the sounds and idiosyncrasies which made him unique (and to some people uniquely annoying), he was still a damned fine composer.” Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 20th November 2002 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | English Music for Viola
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| |  | English Music For Viola
Matthew Jones (viola) & Michael Hampton (piano) The fortunes of the viola as a solo instrument enjoyed a remarkable upsurge during the first half of the 20th Century. Rebecca Clarke’s Viola Sonata ranks among her finest compositions while Frank Bridge’s Four Pieces convey both melodic charm and elegiac warmth. Arthur Bliss’s Intermezzo, transcribed from his Piano Quartet (8555931) and William Walton’s Canzonetta and Scherzetto, originally for violin, complement Arnold Bax’s haunting Legend and Vaughan Williams’s posthumously performed Romance. Matthew Jones has been hailed by The Strad magazine as ‘a worthy successor to Lionel Tertis’. A major prize-winner from the Royal College of Music, Michael Hampton performs on major stages around the world. “With Michael Hampton the sensitive accompanist, Matthew Jones give consistently fine performances, beautifully recorded.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2011 | | | (also available to download from $6.25) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | The Tertis TraditionMusic for Viola & Piano
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’. “…Chase and his recital partner, Michiko Otaki, forge a most stylish, intuitive alliance throughout… a very likeable and thoroughly recommendable anthology.” Gramophone Magazine, January 2010 “...strikingly full and rounded, with at times an almost cello-like breadth.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2010 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Helen Callus (viola) & Phillip Bush (piano) “Helen Callus, a viola-player with exceptionally warm tone and perfect intonation, here offers a miscellany of transcriptions. A fine collection, superbly performed, very well recorded and sensitively accompanied.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2007 | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | |
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| |  | An English Fantasy for Viola & Harp
Jude Mollenhauer (harp), Doris Lederer (viola) | |
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