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CD630: YIZHAK SCHOTTEN’S TRIBUTE TO TERTIS AND PRIMROSE Tertis and Primrose were
the most influential violists of the 20th century. Yizhak Schotten, a protégé of
Primrose and “one of America’s finest viola players,” (STRAD Magazine)
performs 20 of their viola transcriptions.
This CD includes Haydn:
Allegro from Divertimento in D; Liszt: Liebestraum;
C.P.E. Bach: Solfeggietto; J.S. Bach: Komm Süsser Tod; Paganini:
Caprices 5 & 13; Fauré, Après un Rêve; Rameau:
Tambourin; Mendelssohn: Auf Flugeln des Gesanges and May Breezes; Boccherini: Allegro from Sonata
#6; Schubert: Nacht und Träume; Brahms: Minnelied; Benjamin: From San Domingo and Jamaican Rumba;
Grieg: Ich Liebe Dich; Kreisler: La Chasse and Praeludium & Allegro;
Saint-Saëns: The Swan.
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Haydn: Allegro
di Molto from Divertimento in D
Liszt: Liebestraum No. 3 CPE Bach:
Solfeggietto
JS Bach: Komm Süsser Tod Paganini:
Caprice
No. 13 Fauré: Après
un Rêve Kreisler: Tambourin
en Rondeau
Mendelssohn: Auf
Flügeln des Gesanges Boccherini: Allegro
from Sonata No. 6 in A
Schubert: Nacht
und Träume
Benjamin: From
San Domingo Fauré: Élégie
Paganini: Caprice
No. 5 Brahms: Minnelied
Benjamin: Jamaican
Rumba Grieg: Jeg Elsker Dig (Ich Liebe Dich) Mendelssohn/Kreisler: May
Breezes (Song Without Words)
Kreisler: Le
Chasse Saint-Saëns: Le Cygne (The Swan) Kreisler:
Praeludium
and Allegro
CD635: YIZHAK
SCHOTTEN, VIOLA.
Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae,
op. 48, for Viola and String Orchestra; Alan
Shulman: Theme and Variations for Viola and Orchestra; Franz Schubert: Sonata for Arpeggione; Marin Marais: Five Old French Dances. With Katherine
Collier, piano;
Edward Parmentier,
harpsichord;
Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra, Richard
Rosenberg, conductor.
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Schotten, formerly with Boston Symphony and principal with Houston Symphony, is presently Professor at University of Michigan. "...extremely expressive musician." Toronto Whig-Standard Magazine
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Marais Five Dances: Rondeau
L’Agreable
La
Provencale
La
Musette La
Matelotte Le
Basque Schubert: Mvt 1(Allegro moderato) Mvt 2(Adagio-Allegretto) Britten: Lachrymae Shulman:
Theme
and Variations
CD636: PAUL CORTESE, VIOLA. Elliott Carter: Elegy for Viola and Piano; William
Bergsma: Fantastic Variations on a Theme from Tristan and Isolde; Alan
Hovhaness: Chahagir for Solo Viola; George Rochberg: Sonata for Viola and Piano; Vincent Persichetti:
Parable for Solo Viola
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With Jon Klibonoff,
piano.
Cortese, formerly principal viola with
City of Birmingham (England) Symphony Orchestra, and the Gothenburg (Sweden)
Symphony, is now principal viola with Barcelona (Spain) Symphony.
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Carter: Elegy Bergsma: Variations Hovhaness: Chahagir Rochberg
Sonata: Mvt 1(Allegro moderato) Mvt 2(Adagio lamentoso) Mvt 3
Persichetti: Parable
XVI Persichetti: Infanta
Marina
CD637: VIOLA 1919, Yizhak Schotten, Viola. Paul
Hindemith: Sonata for Viola & Piano; Rebecca Clarke: Sonata for Viola &
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Three masterworks written in 1919 featuring Yizhak Schotten on viola and
Katherine Collier on piano. "Splendid
viola sonatas, excitingly played" Turok's
Choice.
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Clarke Sonata: Mvt 1(Impetuoso) Mvt 2(Vivace) Mvt 3(Adagio) Bloch Suite: Mvt 1(Lento) Mvt 2(Allegro ironico) Mvt 3(Nocturne)
Mvt 4(Land of the Sun) Hindemith: Sonata Mvt 1(Fantasie) Mvt 2(Theme & Variations) Mvt 3(Finale)
CD638: BRATSHE! Yizhak
Schotten,Viola. J.S. Bach: Concerto in D for Viola, Strings, and Continuo
(arr. from BWV 169, 49, 1053 by Yizhak Schotten); Beethoven: Duo for Viola and Cello; Brahms:
Sonata in E minor for Viola and Piano (trans. by Lionel Tertis);
Frank Bridge: Lament for Two Violas. With Paul Silverthorne, viola; Peter Rejto, cello; and the Ann Arbor Sinfonietta.
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Bach Concerto: Mvt 1(Allegro) Mvt 2(Siciliano) Mvt 3(Allegro) Beethoven: Duo Brahms Sonata: Mvt 1(Allegro) Mvt 2(Allegretto quasi Menuetto) Mvt 3(Allegro)
Bridge: Lament
CD647: VIOLA AND THE WINDS. James Dunham, Viola;
Westwood Wind Quintet; Jack Sanders, Guitar. Gustav
Holst: Terzetto for Flute, Oboe, & Viola; Jerzy Sapieyevski:
Concerto for Viola and Winds; Anthony Plog: Four
Miniatures for Viola and Wind Quintet; Karl Kohn: Colla
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James Dunham was violist with the Grammy
Award winning Cleveland Quartet. He presently teaches at the Shepherd School of
Music in Houston, Texas. The Westwood Wind Quintet, founded in 1959, has
performed thousands of concerts and has been described as "probably the best group of this kind
anywhere." New
Orleans Courier
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Sapieyevski: Concerto Holst Terzetto: Mvt 1(Allegretto) Mvt 2(Un poco vivace) Plog Miniatures: Mvt 1(Pastoral) Mvt 2(Toccata) Mvt 3(Chorale) Mvt 4(Allegro)
Kohn: Colla Voce
CD825 – SILVER and GOLD, Cynthia
Koledo DeAlmeida, Oboe; Noah Bendix-Balgley, Violin; Meng Wang, Viola;
William Caballero, Horn; David Premo, Cello; Marina
Schmidt Lupinacci, Piano; Rodrigo Ojeda, Piano.
Alexander Wunderer, Sonata in B minor for Oboe and Piano, op. 3; Carl
Reinecke, Trio in A minor for Oboe, Horn, and Piano, op. 188; Malcolm
Arnold, Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola, and
Cello, op. 61; Michael Moricz, Three
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Cynthia
Koledo DeAlmeida has been
principal oboe with the Pittsburgh Symphony since 1991. All the players on this
CD are or were principals in the Pittsburgh Symphony. Noah Bendix-Balgley was recently appointed First Concertmaster of the
Berlin Philharmonic. DeAlmeida was called “hands down one of the best players in the world”
in a review in the American Record Guide of her first Crystal solo CD.
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Wunderer: Sonata in B
minor I.
Andante II.
Tempo giusto III.
Adagio ma non troppo IV.
Presto Reinecke: Trio in A
minor I.
Allegro moderato II.
Scherzo: Molto vivace III.
Adagio IV.
Finale: Allegro ma non troppo Arnold:
Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola, and Cello I.
Allegro non troppo II.
Allegretto III.
Vivace con brio Moricz: Three
Consequences for Four Players I.
Allegro deciso II.
Valse lente III.
Allegro giocoso
CD832: SCHOTTEN PLAYS BRAHMS. Yizhak Schotten,
Viola, with David Hardy, Cello; Katherine
Collier, Piano, and the Chester String Quartet. Brahms: Clarinet Trio, op. 114, &
Clarinet Quintet, op. 115, played on Viola (which was Brahms' alternate
version).
Yizhak Schotten was
formerly violist in the Boston Symphony and principal with the Cincinnati and
Houston Symphonies, and was Viola Professor at the University of Washington in
Seattle. He is presently
Viola Professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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Trio in A Minor: Mvt 1 (Allegro) Mvt 1 (Adagio)
Mvt 3 (Andante grazioso) Mvt 4 (Allegro)
Quintet in B Minor: Mvt 1 (Allegro) Mvt 2 (Adagio)
Mvt 3 (Andantino... Presto non assai, ma con sentimento) Mvt 4 (Con moto)
CD833: VIOLA VIEW. Paul
Cortese, Viola. With
Herwig Coryn, Cello; Artanios
Roc, Piano. Otto
Luening: Suite for Viola and Piano; Witold Lutoslawski:
Bucolics; Rebecca Clarke: Lullaby and Grotesque; Ralph Vaughan Williams:
Romance for Viola and Piano; Walter Piston: Duo for Viola and Violoncello; Roy
Harris: Soliloquy and Dance.
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Paul Cortese has been principal violist
with the City of Birmingham (England), Gothenberg
(Sweden), and Barcelona (Spain) Symphony Orchestras, and is an internationally-acclaimed soloist and chamber musician
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Luenning: Suite: Recitative Scherzo
Elegy Dance Lutoslawski:
Bucolics: Mvmt
1 Mvmt
2 Mvmt
3 Mvmt
4 Mvmt
5 Clarke: Lullaby
and Grotesque Vaughan Williams: Romance Piston: Duo: Mvmt
1 Mvmt
2 Mvmt
3
Harris: Soliloquy
and Dance
CD834: VIOLA SWIRL.
Carol Rodland, Viola. With Tatevik Mokatsian, Piano. Kenji
Bunch: Suite; Dan Coleman: Summer; Christopher Theofanidis: Flow My Tears;
George Gershwin: Fascinatin’ Rhythm; Summertime; I
Got Rhythm; Cole Porter: From This Moment On, Begin the Beguine, and Anything
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Carol Rodland made her debut with the Philadelphia
Orchestra in 1985 and has performed to critical acclaim throughout North
America and Europe. She has taught at The Juilliard School and since 2002 has
been on the faculty of the New England Conservatory.
“...beautifully recorded and produced CD.” STRAD Magazine. “Rodland’s
tone is larger than life, sweetly in tune, and infinitely variegated.”
Fanfare.
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Bunch: Suite Rhapsody Scherzo Lament Cadenza Allegro Coleman: Summer Theofanidis: Flow
My Tears Gershwin: Fascinatin' Rhythm
Summertime I
Got Rhythm Porter: From
this moment on Begin
the beguine Anything
Goes
CD837: THE ELEGANT VIOLA. Yizhak Schotten,
Viola.
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Suite for Viola & Orchestra;
J.S. Bach: Fantasia; W.F. Bach: Sonata for Viola and Harpsichord; Michael Colgrass: Variations for Four Drums and Viola. Yizhak Schotten, viola; Carole
Terry, harpsichord; Frank Epstein, percussion; Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk
Trevor, conductor. UPC 009414783721
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This
is Yizhak Schotten's fifth
CD on Crystal Records. He has been called “one of America's finest string
players” by STRAD Magazine. Schotten is formerly principal viola of the Houston and
Cincinnati Symphonies, and a member of the Boston Symphony. He is one of the
most respected violists in the world. He now teaches at the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor. This is one of the only available recordings of the
beautiful Suite by Vaughan Williams, and is the only
recording of the Variations by Michael Colgrass.
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Vaughan Williams: Suite: Prelude Carol Christmas
Dance Ballad Moto
Perpetuo Musette Polka
Melancolique Galop J.S. Bach: Fantasia
Cromatica W.F. Bach: Sonata in C minor: Mvmt
1 Mvmt
2 Mvmt
3
Colgrass: Variations
CD838: FINALE: SONATAS FOR VIOLA. Paul Cortese, Viola. With Juan Carlos Garvayo, Piano. Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and
Piano, op. 147; Grazyna Bacewicz: Sonata for Viola Solo; Aram Khachaturian:
Sonata for Viola Solo; Bohuslav Martinu: Sonata for
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Shostakovitch’s Viola Sonata was written just before
his death, inspiring Khachaturian to write his Solo Sonata just months later.
Bacewicz’ last published work was a viola concerto, and Martinu
returned to the viola near the end of his life. The music on this CD are
profound works, possibly among the most moving pieces ever written by these
composers.
Paul Cortese has been principal viola with the Gothenburg Symphony with Neeme Jarvi conducting. He has
been guest principal in over a dozen European orchestras and is featured
chamber player in numerous worldwide festivals. This is his third CD on Crystal
Records. The American Record Guide said his “performances
are elegant. The technique of Cortese is superb.” 
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Shostakovich Sonata: Moderato Allegretto Adagio Bacewicz
Sonata: Adagio,
Allegro, Adagio Presto Khachaturian Sonata Martinu
Sonata: Poco
andante, Moderato Allegro
non troppo
CD839: AMERICAN WEAVINGS. Carol Rodland, Viola; Catherine Rodland, Organ.
John Weaver: Concert Piece for Viola
and Organ; Christopher Gable: Teshuvah for Viola and
Organ; Augusta Read Thomas: Incantation and Pulsar for Solo Viola; Daniel
Pinkham: A Proclamation for Organ and Sonata da Chiesa for Viola and Organ;
Craig Phillips: Toccata on ‘Hyfrydol’ for Organ Solo;
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Carol Rodland is Viola Professor at the Eastman
School of Music and is an international soloist. Catherine Rodland
is artist-in-residence at St. Olaf College and also concertizes throughout the
U.S. and Canada. The unusual combination of viola and organ is shown to great
advantage in these premiere recordings. “...an awesome combination, when the
instruments [are viola and organ] and the music, as it is in each piece on this
recital, is noble in intent. The Rodland sisters play
with charisma and style.” Gramophone.
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Piece for Viola and Organ
Gable Teshuvah
Thomas Incantation Pulsar Pinkham
A
Proclamation for Organ
Pinkham Sonata da Chiesa Adagio;
Allegro Andantino Presto;
Adagietto Giocoso Phillips
Toccata
on ‘Hyfrydol’ Weaver
Three Chorale Preludes Wondrous
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CD880 – Dialogue: Carol Rodland,
Viola; Scott Kluksdahl, Cello. Béla Bartók, 23 Duos for Viola and Cello (transcribed for Viola
and Cello by Peter Bartók –son of Béla – from Béla Bartók’s 44 Duos for Violin); Augusta Read Thomas, Dream
Catcher for Solo Viola; David Del Tredici, Cello
Acrostic for Solo Cello; Walter Piston, Duo for Viola and Cello. UPC
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Carol Rodland, one of the world’s finest
violists, teaches at Eastman School of Music, and previously at the New England
Conservatory of Music and The Juilliard School. She has three CDs on
Crystal. Fanfare Magazine has written “Rodland’s tone is larger than life, sweetly in tune, and
infinitely variegated.” Scott Kluksdahl teaches at the University of South Florida. He
has performed and recorded with the Lions Gate Trio for 20 years and is
currently a member of the Veronika String Quartet. Strings Magazine has called
him “a simply superb cellist, playing with
consummate technical ease, a beautiful sound, total conviction, authority and
dedication to the music.” “Bartók’s Duos are played here with love and beauty of
tone.” (American Record Guide)
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Bartók: 23Duos
for Viola and Cello Maypole
Dance Menuetto Slovakian
Song Play
Song Ruthenian
Song Wedding
Song Pillow
Dance Soldiers’
Song Hungarian
March Burlesque A
Fairy Tale Dialogue New
Year’s Song Farewell
to the Bride Jeering
Song Hungarian
Song Grief Dance
from Maramaros
Ruthenian
Kolomeika
Walachian Dance
Arabian
Song Pizzicato Transylvanian
Dance Thomas: Dream
Catcher Del Tredici: Cello
Acrostic Piston: Duo for Viola
and Cello I.
Allegro risoluto II.
Andante sereno
III.
Allegro brillante
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