The chamber repertoire for the viola increased dramatically in the twentieth century, and Paul Cortese has selected six modern works that show the quite varied stylistic approaches of Otto Luening, Witold Lutoslawski, Rebecca Clarke, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Walter Piston, and Roy Harris; yet all found the instrument eminently suited for pensive, lyrical expression. Though the music ranges from the approachable tonality of Vaughan Williams' Romance and Clarke's Lullaby and Grotesque, to touches of polytonality in Luening's ...
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The chamber repertoire for the viola increased dramatically in the twentieth century, and Paul Cortese has selected six modern works that show the quite varied stylistic approaches of Otto Luening, Witold Lutoslawski, Rebecca Clarke, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Walter Piston, and Roy Harris; yet all found the instrument eminently suited for pensive, lyrical expression. Though the music ranges from the approachable tonality of Vaughan Williams' Romance and Clarke's Lullaby and Grotesque, to touches of polytonality in Luening's Suite and Bartókian chromaticism in Lutoslawski's Bucolics, not one of the pieces ventures into dodecaphony or avant-garde experimentalism, so the program is perfectly accessible to a wide audience. This is apparently Cortese's aim, to further the viola's acceptance as a solo instrument, and to make its growing body of work better known outside the small coterie of performers and students already familiar with it. Cortese is joined by cellist Herwig Coryn and pianist Artanios Roc;...
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