Reexamining the Bartok/Serly Viola Concerto

1981 ◽  
Vol 23 (1/4) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
Sandor Kovacs
Keyword(s):  
Viola Concerto

Barbican, London: Turnage's Viola Concerto ‘On Opened Ground’

Tempo ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 58 (229) ◽  
pp. 73-74
Author(s):  
Robert Stein
Keyword(s):  
Reference Points ◽  
Viola Concerto ◽  
String Instrument

Not being a string player himself, Mark-Anthony Turnage approached his first concerto for a string instrument with some trepidation. It turns out that while the writing for the viola is idiomatic enough, Turnage has something of a love/hate relationship with traditional ideas about the concerto. Divided into two movements – Turnage admitted that in the unlikely event of his writing a symphony it would have three, five or six movements, never four – the new concerto (completed in 2001 and here given its UK première) has the expected cadenza but one that appears only 36 bars in! Such challenging attitudes to an old form characterize the new piece, subtitled On Opened Ground. Even so the work's structure – scherzando opening with slower coda, slow second movement and brisk chaconne finale – bring us back to the more usual reference points for a concerto. While he acknowledges the surprising influence of Walton ‘in the second movement’, the influence of that composer's own viola concerto is actually more pervasive than Turnage would have us believe. Even the title, while apparently making reference to Seamus Heaney's collection Opened Ground, seems to point more fruitfully to the ground bass of the second movement's chaconne. One thing is certainly as described: On Opened Ground is, as he claims, one of Turnage's most lyrical pieces and might win him an audience for whom the earlier astrigencies were too great.

Bartok's Viola Concerto

1950 ◽  
Vol 91 (1290) ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Mosco Carner
Keyword(s):  
Viola Concerto

RUBBRA'S VIOLA CONCERTO

1954 ◽  
Vol XXXV (3) ◽  
pp. 204-205
Author(s):  
IVOR KEYS
Keyword(s):  
Viola Concerto

A New Viola Concerto

1973 ◽  
Vol 114 (1566) ◽  
pp. 790
Author(s):  
Thea Musgrave
Keyword(s):  
Viola Concerto

Ghosts and Shadow Sounds

2021 ◽  
pp. 254-292
Author(s):  
Peter J. Schmelz
Keyword(s):  
Piano Sonata ◽  
Viola Concerto ◽  
Violin Concerto ◽  
String Trio ◽  
Artificial Nature ◽  
The Grotesque

Chapter 9 begins studying Alfred Schnittke’s lengthy retreat from polystylism by looking at several of his key compositions from the 1980s, among them his Piano Sonata no. 2, Violin Concerto no. 4, String Trio, and Viola Concerto. In these works, polystylism began to fade as Schnittke emphasized the grotesque, artificial nature of his quotations. He also began speaking more about what he called “shadow sounds,” which soon took precedence in his aesthetic schema, largely replacing polystylism. Yet by the end of the 1980s, as polystylism dissipated, it remained a central category for critics and listeners. Schnittke himself became more unrooted; he emigrated from the USSR to Germany but continued to express a deep ambivalence about his true home.

First Performances

Tempo ◽  
1998 ◽  
pp. 16-23
Keyword(s):  
List Type ◽  
Viola Concerto

The Masterprize Final Martin AndersonPer Nrgrd's Second Symphony Peter QuinnDer Gerettete Alberich William MivalIindberg does L.A. James HarleyToronto: Murray Schafer's Viola Concerto Paul RapoportTurku: Nordgren's Fourth Symphony Christophy SchlrenBirmingham: Raymond Head's This We Call Being Calum MacDonaldWestminster Abbey: Prt's Triodion Peter QuinnWestminster Cathedral: Roxanna Panufhik's Westminster Mass Martin AndersonMunich: Hosokawa's Vision of Lear John Wamaby

Book Reviews

Tempo ◽  
1998 ◽  
pp. 24-37
Keyword(s):  
List Type ◽  
Viola Concerto ◽  
Professional Dancer

Finding the Key: Goehr's Selected Writings Mark CromarUncommon Ground, Common Subsoil: Michael Finnissy Geoffrey AlvarezMessiaen, Trait and Tombeau Christopher DingleNielsen and Sibelius Peter PalmerProfessional Dancer: George Butterworth Lewis ForemanKorngold the Last Prodigy (with a CD roundup) Martin AndersonBartk Viola Concerto Facsimile Malcolm GilliesClassical Modernism and Frtwngler Peter PalmerThe Search for Thomas F. Ward Michael Lister

Viola Concerto; Violin Concerto

1970 ◽  
Vol 111 (1529) ◽  
pp. 720
Author(s):  
Hugh Ottaway ◽  
Walton ◽  
Menuhin ◽  
NPO ◽  
LSO
Keyword(s):  
Viola Concerto ◽  
Violin Concerto

Viola Concerto

1969 ◽  
Vol 110 (1513) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
Hugh Ottaway ◽  
Walton ◽  
Doktor ◽  
Lpo ◽  
Downes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Viola Concerto
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