Brahms Viola

Antoine Tamestit, Cédric Tiberghien & Matthias Goerne - Brahms - Viola Sonatas, Op. 120 - Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91 (2021) [24/96]

Antoine Tamestit, Cédric Tiberghien & Matthias Goerne - Brahms - Viola Sonatas, Op. 120 - Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 56:22 minutes | 1.0 GB
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi, Official Digital Download

Magisterially rounding off one of the nineteenth century’s most remarkable bodies of chamber music, Brahms’s two Sonatas op.120 call for a virtuosity wholly dedicated to their extraordinary lyricism.
Antoine Tamestit, Cédric Tiberghien & Matthias Goerne - Brahms: Viola Sonatas, Op. 120 - Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91 (2021)

Antoine Tamestit, Cédric Tiberghien & Matthias Goerne - Brahms: Viola Sonatas, Op. 120 - Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91 (2021)
FLAC tracks +booklet | 56:16 | 213 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: harmonia mundi

Magisterially rounding off one of the nineteenth century’s most remarkable bodies of chamber music, Brahms’s two Sonatas op.120 call for a virtuosity wholly dedicated to their extraordinary lyricism. Just as in the famous ‘Lullaby’, the melodic line develops with an almost organic naturalness, in close proximity to the human voice. Hence it is hardly surprising in this context to discover two lieder in which baritone and viola are treated as equals, and which are here interpreted by three exceptional musicians!
Philip Dukes & Peter Donohoe - Brahms: Viola Sonatas 1 & 2 - Schumann: Adagio and Allegro (2021) [Digital Download 24/96]

Philip Dukes & Peter Donohoe - Brahms: Viola Sonatas 1 & 2 - Schumann: Adagio and Allegro (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 58:45 minutes | 973 MB
Classical | Label: Chandos Records, Official Digital Download

Recognised as one of the world’s leading viola players, Philip Dukes has enjoyed a career spanning over thirty years as an accomplished concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. He joins forces with Peter Donohoe, acclaimed as one of the foremost pianists of our time, for this extraordinary recording of works by Brahms and Schumann.
Philip Dukes & Peter Donohoe - Brahms: Viola Sonatas 1 & 2 - Schumann: Adagio and Allegro (2021)

Philip Dukes & Peter Donohoe - Brahms: Viola Sonatas 1 & 2 - Schumann: Adagio and Allegro (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 219 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 140 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:58:45
Classical | Label: Chandos Records

Recognised as one of the world’s leading viola players, Philip Dukes has enjoyed a career spanning over thirty years as an accomplished concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. He joins forces with Peter Donohoe, acclaimed as one of the foremost pianists of our time, for this extraordinary recording of works by Brahms and Schumann. As he writes in his booklet note, Philip wanted to find a new approach to these works: ‘I wanted [my interpretation] to sound fresh and alive, almost as when I was looking at the scores for the first time all those years ago, but with the secret benefit of all that subsequent experience under my belt. So, I did just that. I purchased a new, excellent, well researched edition, I listened to all manner of different recordings (of the versions both for clarinet and for viola), and I devoted three months to the project, the culmination of which is what you will hear.’
Miguel Da Silva, Xavier Phillips & François-Frédéric Guy - Brahms: Trio, Op. 114 & Sonatas, Op. 120 (2021) [24/96]

Miguel Da Silva, Xavier Phillips & François-Frédéric Guy - Brahms: Trio, Op. 114 & Sonatas, Op. 120 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 70:52 minutes | 1,16 GB
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Official Digital Download

Brahms’s Trio op.114, originally conceived for clarinet (like the two Sonatas op.120), is presented here in its version with viola: ‘Like all Brahms’s works, this trio is a vocal, melodic piece. And the viola is perhaps the instrument of the string quartet that comes closest to the human voice’, says violist Miguel Da Silva.
Miguel Da Silva, Xavier Phillips & François-Frédéric Guy - Brahms: Trio, Op. 114 & Sonatas, Op. 120 (2021)

Miguel Da Silva, Xavier Phillips & François-Frédéric Guy - Brahms: Trio, Op. 114 & Sonatas, Op. 120 (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 261 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 163 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:10:52
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics, Outhere Music

Brahms’s Trio op.114, originally conceived for clarinet (like the two Sonatas op.120), is presented here in its version with viola: ‘Like all Brahms’s works, this trio is a vocal, melodic piece. And the viola is perhaps the instrument of the string quartet that comes closest to the human voice’, says violist Miguel Da Silva. ‘This version with viola obliges me, as a cellist, to listen differently: our two stringed instruments must “breathe” together and match their articulation’, continues Xavier Phillips. These three works from late in Brahms’s career testify to his modernity: ‘Brahms was often considered a classical composer who was impervious to modernity, the guardian of a certain tradition’, says pianist François-Frédéric Guy, who agrees with Schoenberg that he was, on the contrary, highly innovative: ‘We have a fine example, in the trio, of the extraordinary modernity of his combinations of rhythm and timbre: he is a total innovator.'

Maxim Rysanov - Brahms: Works for Viola, Vol. 2 (2010)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at April 27, 2021
Maxim Rysanov - Brahms: Works for Viola, Vol. 2 (2010)

Maxim Rysanov - Brahms: Works for Viola, Vol. 2 (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 81:10 | 436 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Onyx | Catalog: ONYX4054

Maxim Rysanov completes his survey of all Brahms s chamber works to feature the viola. On this second volume, he is joined by Alice Coote and Ashley Wass in the Two Songs op.91, and takes the solo viola part the clarinet role in the Op.115 Quintet. Richard Mühlfeld, the clarinetist for whom Brahms wrote his two sonatas and the quintet, managed to coax Brahms out of self-imposed retirement, and the result is the wonderful Indian summer of late chamber works. Joseph Joachim remarked that the clarinet parts would work well transcribed for viola. Brahms lavished much care on these arrangements, and they are valuable additions to the repertoire of the viola.

Yury Kramarov, viola - Mozart, Brahms, Debussy (2001)  Music

Posted by Designol at June 7, 2020
Yury Kramarov, viola - Mozart, Brahms, Debussy (2001)

Yury Kramarov, viola - Mozart, Brahms, Debussy (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 336 Mb | Scans included | Time: 01:09:35
Classical | Label: Bomba-Piter/Manchester Files | # CDMAN 161

Yury Markovich Kramarov (1929-1982), one of the best representatives of St. Petersburg viola school, the outstanding Russian musician and teacher, has contributed a great deal to the development of the national viola art. In 1952 Kramarov, still a student at the Conservatoire then, was invited to fill the post of the viola group concertmaster of the Leningrad Philharmonic Society orchestra. Simultaneously he started teaching at the Conservatoire. From that time on performing and pedagogical arts were constantly present in his creative life and complemented each other. From 1956 through 1963 he was the viola group concertmaster in the famous Mravinsky Orchestra. In 1957 the young musician won two important and convincing prizes at the All-Union and International competitions in Moscow. Being a brilliant soloist, having performed with best national orchestras and conductors (Ye. Mravinsky, N. Rakhlin, A. Yansons, K. Eliasberg), Kramarov nonetheless was always drawn towards chamber music. Such leading figures of the Russian performing arts as I. Braudo, M. Vaiman, B. Gutnikov, V. Liberman, M.Rostropovich played together with Kramarov. The musician performed with great enthusiasm in the quartets named after Taneev, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Glazunov.
Tabea Zimmermann, Kirill Gerstein - Brahms, Schubert, Franck: Sonatas for Viola & Piano, Vol. 2 (2012)

Tabea Zimmermann, Kirill Gerstein - Brahms, Schubert, Franck: Sonatas for Viola & Piano, Vol. 2 (2012)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:12:45 | 309 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Myrios Classics | Catalog: MYRSACD 8

Tabea Zimmermann and Kirill Gerstein return to the studio to record the follow-up to their highly praised first duo album. The new disc includes spellbinding performances of three late works by significant 19th century composers: Brahms mature Sonata in F minor, Schubert s melancholic Arpeggione Sonata, and Franck s splendid Sonata in A major, all masterly performed on viola.
Andreas Willwohl - Brahms- Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120 Nos. 1 & 2; Viola Trio, Op. 114 (2020/2023) [Official Digital Download]

Andreas Willwohl - Brahms- Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120 Nos. 1 & 2; Viola Trio, Op. 114 (2020/2023) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:08:54 minutes | 639 MB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Brahms’ Sonata in F Minor, Op. 120 was one of the first works Daniel and I played together 22 years ago.