Utwory na płycie:

• Kaprys Polski
• Sonata Pastorale I Fantasia
• Sonata Pastorale II Pastorale
• Boreal
• Penillion
• Echo of the Wind, Op 157
• Five Sketches I Molto moderato – Più mosso
• Five Sketches II Allegro deciso – Meno moss
• Five Sketches III Andantino
• Five Sketches IV Poco lento
• Five Sketches V Presto
• Suite for Viola I Prelude
• Suite for Viola II Cinquepace
• Suite for Viola III Sarabande
• Suite for Viola IV Gigue
• In the Still of the Night
• Light at the End of the Tunnel

Grażyna Bacewicz:
Kaprys Polski (arr. Rosalind Ventris)

Lillian Fuchs:
Sonata Pastorale

Amanda Feery:
Boreal

Sally Beamish:
Penillion

Elisabeth Lutyens:
Echo of the Wind, Op. 157

Elizabeth Maconchy:
Five Sketches

Imogen Holst:
Suite for Viola

Thea Musgrave:
In the Still of the Night
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 Grazyna 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’.

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Recorded at Wyastone Concert Hall on 19-21 December 2020.