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According to Lewis Foreman, it is "possibly the first full blown concerto for viola by a British composer". (York Bowen's Viola Concerto followed in 1907). There is a modern recording by Lawrence Power and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. [3] Chanson Celtique (1906) for viola and piano, also achieved some popularity and was later ...
The Viola Concerto by William Walton was written in 1929 and first performed at the Queen's Hall, London on 3 October of that year by Paul Hindemith as soloist and the composer conducting. It had been written with the violist Lionel Tertis in mind, and he took the work up after initially rejecting it. The concerto established Walton as a ...
Fiddlers Three is a play written by Agatha Christie in 1972. It was first written as Fiddlers Five , under which title it toured successfully in 1971, after opening at Southsea on 7 June. [ 1 ] The following year, the revised version toured briefly after its premiere at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford on 1 August, with Doris Hare and ...
The composition takes around 16 minutes to perform and is in one movement. It is scored for a solo viola and a large orchestra, consisting of 3 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 4 clarinets, 3 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, vibraphone, glockenspiel, chimes, suspended cymbals, gongs, tamtams, 2 harps, piano, celesta, and a large section of strings.
The viola concerto has been highly praised by music critics. Reviewing the world premiere, Fiona Maddocks of The Observer described the piece as an "inventive, three-movement piece" and said it "exploits fully the lyrical qualities of the instrument, launching with a rhapsodic solo ascent and finding bold colours via some hushed string harmonics, dissonances and glissandi.
The collection includes viola manuscripts from Primrose's collection, a viola manuscript by Ernst Toch with a dedication to Primrose, a holograph score of Efrem Zimbalist's "Sarasateana: Suite of Spanish Dances," Milhaud's second viola concerto with a dedication from the composer, the working manuscript for Béla Bartók's viola concerto, and ...
Romance in D ♭ major for violin or viola and piano (1900, 1904) Sonata in B minor for violin and piano, Op. 7 (1902) Fantasia in F major for viola and organ (1903) Sonata No. 1 in C minor for viola and piano, Op. 18 (1905) Allegro de Concert in D minor for cello or viola and piano (1906) Sonata No. 2 in F major for viola and piano, Op. 22 (1906)
Serly titled several of his later works as being "in modus lascivus", including sonatas for violin, viola, and piano. His Concertino 3 X 3 uses this compositional system, but is most memorable for its formal structure: it consists of nine movements, the first three for piano solo, the second set of three movements for orchestra without piano ...