Let Beauty Awake: English Viola Music
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2182
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 1st September 2017
Contents
Works
Cello Suite no.3, op.87 (trans. viola by Ellen Nisbeth)Lachrymae, op.48
Viola Sonata
Romance for viola and piano
Songs of Travel (9)
Artists
Ellen Nisbeth (viola)Bengt Forsberg (piano)
Works
Cello Suite no.3, op.87 (trans. viola by Ellen Nisbeth)Lachrymae, op.48
Viola Sonata
Romance for viola and piano
Songs of Travel (9)
Artists
Ellen Nisbeth (viola)Bengt Forsberg (piano)
About
For her first recital disc Ellen Nisbeth has devised an all-British programme which includes her own transcriptions of selected songs from Songs of Travel – Ralph Vaughan Williams’s settings of poems by Stevenson. The songs intersperse the remainder of the programme, and one of them – Let Beauty Awake – has also lent its title to the entire disc. Together with the eminent pianist and chamber musician Bengt Forsberg, Nisbeth goes on to perform the impassioned Viola Sonata composed in 1919 by Rebecca Clarke – a well-known piece among viola players, but deserving of a wider audience.
The centrepiece of this amply filled disc is Benjamin Britten’s Third Suite for Cello, transcribed for viola by Ellen Nisbeth herself – composed for Mstislav Rostropovich, the suite is based on Russian themes which Britten only presents in full towards the end of the substantial work. The same method is used in Lachrymae, here in the original version for viola and piano, where John Dowland’s song If my complaints could passions move is presented in full at the very end of the piece.
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