Berlioz Harold In Italy Benedict And Beatrice Overture Paganini Sonate Per La Gran Viola E Orchestra
Carpenter David Aaron Ashkenazy Vladimir
Berlioz Harold In Italy Benedict And Beatrice Overture Paganini Sonate Per La Gran Viola E Orchestra
Carpenter David Aaron Ashkenazy Vladimir
Catalogue # ODE11882
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Berlioz:
\nBéatrice et Bénédict, Op. 27: Overture
\nHarold en Italie, Op. 16 - Premiere recording: unpublished version\nof soloist part (written for Paganini)
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Paganini: Sonata per la gran viola, Op. 35
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David Aaron Carpenter (viola)
\nHelsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy
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For his second CD release, 25-year-old, New York-born violist\nDavid Aaron Carpenter is joined by Vladimir Ashkenazy who leads the\nHelsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Together they perform the Symphony with Viola obbligato, “Harold\nin Italy,” which Hector Berlioz originally wrote on a commission\nfrom Paganini. The present recording features, for the first time,\nan unpublished more virtuosic soloist part written for\nPaganini.
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The coupling is a showpiece, which Nicolò Paganini wrote after\nrejecting his earlier Berlioz commission; “The Sonata per la Gran\nViola displays the highest virtuosic writing for this instrument,”\nsays David Aaron Carpenter, who defines his mission as focusing\nattention on the viola as a great solo string instrument in its own\nright.
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Review
Kate Rockstrom, Readings Carlton
I know I’m biased, having had to listen to the Overture to Beatrice et Benedict by Berlioz on repeat recently for an audition but it’s such a fun work. Although it’s not the key work on the new recording from maestro Vladimir Ashkenazy it’s well worth the price of the record just for this upbeat and exciting rendition. However Harold in Italy follows, with the Violin obbligato expertly performed by David Aaron Carpenter. Rounding it all up with the exquisite, could have only ever been written by Paganini, Sonata for the Grand Viola and Orchestra.
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