 | Bloch: Chamber Music with Viola
Buy used from: £20.34 Cortese communicates Bloch's Jewish melodies with directness and feeling
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 | Hindemith - Viola Sonatas
Buy new: £17.59 / Used from: £11.99 Probably Kashkashian's finest (double) CD demonstrating her amazing dynamic range with Hindemith's sonatas
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 | Bruch: Works for Clarinet & Viola
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.99 Causse blends his viola perfectly with the clarinet pieces & the orchestral Romance blows you away (like a feather in a warm breeze)
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 | Viola Concertos
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.99 Xiao plays powerful version of Bartok's concerto completed by Serly with authentic Hungarian orchestral backing
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 | Brahms: Viola Sonatas; Two Songs
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £5.99 Bashmet inspires adulation with the passion he conveys on these sonatas & a bonus of viola accompanying 2 lieder
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 | Monodia
Buy new: £17.59 / Used from: £10.71 Only Mansurian's invention & Kashkashian's skill could pull off inter-weaving viola with orchestra, Armenian chant & Garbarek's sax
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 | Bowen & Forsyth: Viola Concertos
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £9.00 Power plays masterfully putting the Bowen & Forsyth concertos on the map
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 | Rubbra & Walton: Viola Concertos
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £8.46 Power's purple patch encompasses the oft-recorded Walton concerto (in its rare original version) & also makes the case for the rarer Rubbra solo meditations & viola concerto
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 | Benjamin Dale: Music for Viola
Buy new: £10.46 Very Edwardian English but played with wonderful feel for form by Chase stepping into the shoes of Tertis - this CD may go some way to restoring Dale's reputation
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 | British Viola Music
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £11.29 Bradley imbues these 20C British orchestral viola pieces with extraordinary feeling
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 | Bowen - Viola and Piano Works
Buy new: £19.59 Power's star is rising fast so this new, complete 2CD collection of the Bowen sonatas is to be treasured
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 | Hindemith: Viola Concertos
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £5.20 Dean is equal to Hindemith's demanding & wide-ranging orchestral writing for viola
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 | Bax - Works for Viola and Piano
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £1.99 Like several 20C UK composers, Bax created a stunningly varied viola repertoire forcefully played here by Outram
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 | Franck: Sonata in A; Vieuxtemps: Sonata in B flat, Op. 36; Elégie, Op. 30; Capriccio in C minor
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £6.77 Imai plays these Belgian viola pieces with great composure showing the value of transcribing Franck's violin sonata
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![Milhaud: Chamber Music with Viola [IMPORT]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XFBBKRTGL._SL75_.jpg) | Milhaud: Chamber Music with Viola [IMPORT]
Buy used from: £24.95 Cortese brings out the charm & occasional spikiness in Milhaud's music - the viola/ cello duet is especially challenging
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 | Earth-Fire: Music for the Viola
Idiosyncratic 20C sonatas played with exhilaration by Johnson - from Britten's sad lyricism to Tiet's fire, Bergsma's finely composed Tristan variations & Ghent's abstraction
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 | Invocations - Contemporary Viola Works
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £8.72 Silverthorne skillfully plays collection of commissions by unjustly neglected composers, including Bennett's lyrical After Ariadne & Woolrich's miniatures from his concerto
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 | J.V.Stamic & Sons - Viola Concertos
Buy new: £9.79 Czech violist, Peruska, plays works by Stamitz & his sons that were influential in establishing the classical viola concerto - a journey from Bohemia to Paris via Mannheim
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 | English Music for Viola
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.00 Clarke's under-appreciated sonata is surrounded by idiosyncratic English pastoral minatures played by Coletti
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 | Viola Rarities
Buy used from: £33.66 Beautiful & rare early classical viola with tuneful concertos by Hoffmeister & Joseph Schubert played authoritatively by Causse
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 | The Russian Viola
Imai treats us to well-compiled series of Russian viola, including Glinka's melodic sonata & Shostakovich's final composition full of dark sonorities
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 | Kancheli/Schnittke - Viola & Orchestra Works
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £8.99 Kashkashian plays razor sharp viola version of Kancheli's masterpiece logically paired with racy, full-bloodied Schnittke concerto
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 | Gubuaidulina: Viola Concerto / Kancheli: Styx by Yuri Bashmet
Buy new: £12.69 / Used from: £12.88 Kancheli's Styx ebbs & flows with a lovely viola-choir dialogue & Bashmet excels on Gubaidulina's surprisingly conventional viola concerto
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 | Morton Feldman - The Viola In My Life
Buy new: £11.98 Konstantynowicz draws out the ambient static-motion beauty with slivers of melody in this full 4-movement version - virtuosity in under-statement
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 | Berio: Voci by Kim Kashkashian
Buy new: £11.69 The future of viola? Kashkashian playing in a convincing post-modern folk idiom backed by orchestra, taped Sicilian singers & ringing percussion
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