Solo viola works of Ligeti, Kurtág, Dillon, Dusapin, Sciarrino, and Berio

"Nothing naïve about this co-production with Auvidis Montaigne -WDR! It is the best solo viola CD I have come across and I recommend it strongly - even to those who have been put off by the list of composers and might not have intended to read further?

Garth Knox knows more about contemporary composers and performance of their music than most. As violist of Ensemble Intercontemporain 1983-90, and in the Arditti Quartet 1990-98, he worked closely with all these composers, an ideal pursued in preparing this CD. He writes that 'working with a composer on a solo instrumental piece is as close as you can get to handling the finest detail of the smallest building blocks he uses to construct his sound world'. Record it in an ideal studio situation, with just the right amount of reverberation, and it can be brought into the home, sounding as near as can be to having the player in your living room."

Peter Grahame Woolf, musicweb-international.com. Read the rest here: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2000/aug00/knox.htm

1) Sonata: 1. Hora Lunga. Lente Rubato – György Ligeti
2) Sonata: 2. Sonata: Loop. Molto vivace, ritmico - with swing – György Ligeti
3) Sonata: 3. Fascar. Andante cantabile ed espressivo, with swing – György Ligeti
4) Sonata: 4. Presto con sordino. So schnell wie möglich – György Ligeti
5) Sonata: 5. Lamento. Tempo giusto, intenso e barbaro – György Ligeti
6) Sonata: 6. Chaconne chromatique. Vivace appassionato (molto ritmico e feroce) – György Ligeti
7) Jelek/Zeichen op. 5: Agitato – György Kurtág
8) Jelek/Zeichen op. 5: Giusto – György Kurtág
9) Jelek/Zeichen op. 5: Lento – György Kurtág
10) Jelek/Zeichen op. 5: Vivo, feroce – György Kurtág
11) Jelek/Zeichen op. 5: Quasi senza tempo – György Kurtág
12) Jelek/Zeichen op. 5: Con sordino, risoluto – György Kurtág
13) Siorram – James Dillon
14) Inside: 1 – Pascal Dusapin
15) Inside: 2 – Pascal Dusapin
16) Inside: 3 – Pascal Dusapin
17) Tre notturni brillanti: Di volo – Salvatore Sciarrino
18) Tre notturni brillanti: Scorrevole e animato – Salvatore Sciarrino
19) Tre notturni brillanti: Prestissimo precipitamo – Salvatore Sciarrino
20) Sequenza VI – Luciano Berio

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