Berlioz: Harold In Italy; Paganini: Sonata Per La Grand Viola - Carpenter, Ashkenazy (2011)

Posted By: peotuvave

Date: March 25, 2014

For his second CD release, 25-year-old, New York-born violist David Aaron Carpenter is joined by Vladimir Ashkenazy who leads the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Together they perform the Symphony with Viola obbligato, “Harold in Italy,” which Hector Berlioz originally wrote on a commission from Paganini. The present recording features, for the first time, an unpublished more virtuosic soloist part written for Paganini.

The coupling is a showpiece, which Nicolò Paganini wrote after rejecting his earlier Berlioz commission; “The Sonata per la Gran Viola displays the highest virtuosic writing for this instrument,” says David Aaron Carpenter, who defines his mission as focusing attention on the viola as a great solo string instrument in its own right.

Recipient of the 2011 Leonard Bernstein Award and winner of the 2010 Avery Fisher Career Grant, David Aaron Carpenter has emerged as one of the world’s most promising young artists. In 2006, he won the prestigious Walter E. Naumburg Viola Competition and in 2007, he became protégé for The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, being the youngest in this mentorship programme’s history. David Aaron Carpenter has been the protégé of several major international musical figures, such as Pinchas Zukerman, Yuri Bashmet and Christoph Eschenbach.

Composer: Hector Berlioz, Niccolò Paganini
Performer: David Aaron Carpenter
Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Orchestra/Ensemble: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

Reviews: “Carpenter is the eloquent viola soloist in Berlioz’s Byronic symphony…[Ashkenazy and the Helsinki orchestra ] reveal the music’s narrative heart compellingly. Paganini’s own Sonata for viola and orchestra, scarcely on a par with Berlioz, nevertheless allows Carpenter to demonstrate his lyrical musicality and bravura.”

“The excellent violist David Aaron Carpenter has reinstated a virtuoso passage in the opening adagio, originally sketched for Paganini. With Ashkenazy and the Helsinki PO, he gives a masterly account of the work, glowing and incisive.”

Tracklisting:

1. Béatrice et Bénédict: Overture by Hector Berlioz
Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Orchestra/Ensemble: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1860-1862; France

2. Harold en Italie, Op. 16 by Hector Berlioz
Performer: David Aaron Carpenter (Viola)
Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Orchestra/Ensemble: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1834; France

3. Sonata for Viola and Orchestra by Niccolò Paganini
Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Orchestra/Ensemble: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: by 1834

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