Browse: Martinů - Rhapsody-Concerto for Viola and Orchestra

Rysanov, the tone of his 1780 Guadagnini viola a miraculous combination of dark vigour with the translucency of a viola d'amore, has the most idiomatic partner in Jiri Belohlavek conducting the... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Estonian strings sing their hearts out…the woodwind solos are very lovely, too. Viola-player Mikhail Zemtsov impresses with the sheer beauty of tone — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The performance of the second version is exemplary, as is that of the two-movement Rhapsody Concerto where Matoušek, exchanging violin for viola, luxuriates in the radiant lyricism of Martinu's... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Hogwood developed a passion for Martinů’s music while a student in Prague in the 1960s, as is evident at every stage in this wide-ranging collection. He seems most at home in the earlier, baroque-inflected... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The gem is Tabea Zimmermann's moving account of the Rhapsody Concerto; the clear sense of direction never allows the music to spill over into sentimentality… — BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A mood of nostalgia and ineffable sadness envelops Martinu's Rhapsody-Concerto… Delivering an expansive account of the solo part, violist Jitka Hosprová certainly captures the essence of Martinu's... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…