Composer: Grazyna Bacewicz, Sally Beamish, Amanda Feery, Lillian Fuchs, Imogen Holst, Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy, Thea Musgrave
Performer: Rosalind Ventris
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Delphian
Catalogue: DCD34292
Release: 2023
Size: 1.18 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Bacewicz: Kaprys polski No. 1
Fuchs: Sonata Pastorale for Unaccompanied Viola
02. I. Fantasia
03. II. Pastorale
04. Feery: Boreal
05. Beamish: Penillion
06. Lutyens: Echo of the Wind
Maconchy: Sketches for Solo Viola
07. I. Molto moderato – Più mosso
08. II. Allegro deciso – Meno mosso
09. III. Andantino
10. IV. Poco lento
11. IV. Presto
Holst: Suite for Unaccompanied Viola
12. I. Prelude
13. II. Cinquepace
14. III. Saraband
15. IV. Gigue
16. Musgrave: In the Still of the Night
17. Musgrave: Light at the End of the Tunnel
Rosalind Ventris’s debut solo album features a selection of music for unacccompanied viola composed between 1930 (Imogen Holst’s impressive Suite for Viola) and the present day (a 2020 lockdown miniature by Thea Musgrave). The largely British and Irish programme allows Ventris to revive substantial works by important yet still often overlooked twentieth-century composers – not only Holst but also Lillian Fuchs, Elizabeth Maconchy, Elisabeth Lutyens and Gra_yna Bacewicz – alongside more recent additions to the repertoire from Musgrave, Sally Beamish and Amanda Feery. With several of the composers themselves professional string players, this is, in Ventris’s words, ‘wonderful music – that just happens to be by women composers’.