(2020) Music for Viola & Chamber Orchestra: Vaughan Williams, Martinu, Hindemith & Britten Bruno Philippe Virtuosity gives a composer wings

Virtuosity gives a composer wings with which to soar above the commonplace and the platitudinous

CD recordings of works by Frank Martin

Le Quatuor Terpsycordes et Fabrizio Chiovetta

only five can rightly be looked upon as genuine works of the then conductor at the Court of Köthen (c

(2020) Music for Viola & Chamber Orchestra: Vaughan Williams, Martinu, Hindemith & Britten Bruno Philippe Virtuosity gives a composer wingsThierry Scherz Prize Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad 2019 The wealth of music composed for the viola in the 20th century almost lets one forget the dearth of it in the 19th, which brought forth only two solo works of note: Hector Berliozs Harold in Italy, a concerto commissioned by Paganini that sidelines the viola so much he refused to play it; and Richard Strausss Don Quixote, in which the solo viola is relegated to the part of the Dons sidekick Sancho