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Album Summary
Performers
Helen Callus (Viola)- David Gilling (Violin)
- Vesa-Matti Leppanen (Violin)
- Vyvyan Yendoll (Viola)
- David Chickering (Cello)
Notes & Reviews:
This is a stunning recording of several major British works for viola. Premiered by composer Paul Hindemith, Walton's Viola Concerto is the most important work written for the instrument by a British composer, and was among the pieces that established Walton as one of the major composers of the 20th century. Also included on this disc are three other major British viola works including the unjustly neglected Concerto by York Bowen. Internationally renowned soloist Helen Callus has written her own cadenza to the Bowen Concerto for this recording and performs all the pieces on this album with great expression and lyricism supported by the superb New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Marc Taddei.
"Callus possesses an enviably rich tone, heard to full advantage" The Sunday Telegraph
"Callus has a wonderfully smoky tone and a fine rhetorical flair, and combines brilliance with intensity. In the finale, though she broadens the tempo for the sweeping lyrical second theme much more than Walton directs, weakening he impact of the coda." BBC Music Magazine, January 2008
"Helen Callus, British-born but based in America, plays with sumptuous tone matched by flawless intonation to give the most beautiful account I have ever heard of the Walton Concerto. She brings out the warmth of Walton's lyricism, one memorable theme after another, and finds a rare mystery in the pianissimo passages, above all in the haunting epilogue. Marc Taddei draws playing from the New Zealand orchestra that is warm in the lyricism and incisive in Walton's characteristic syncopations. ...a most beautiful account of the Howells Elegy, orchestra members making up the string quartet set against the solo viola." Gramophone Magazine, September 2006
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Works Details
Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Suite for viola & small orchestra :: no 1 - Performer: Helen Callus (Viola)
- Conductor: Marc Taddei
- Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
- Notes: Michael Fowler Centre Auditorium, Wellington, New Zealand (02/09/2005-02/11/2005)
- Running Time: 3 min. 7 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1934
Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Suite for viola & small orchestra :: no 2 - Performer: Helen Callus (Viola)
- Conductor: Marc Taddei
- Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
- Notes: Michael Fowler Centre Auditorium, Wellington, New Zealand (02/09/2005-02/11/2005)
- Running Time: 3 min. 1 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1934
Vaughan Williams, Ralph : Suite for viola & small orchestra :: no 3 - Performer: Helen Callus (Viola)
- Conductor: Marc Taddei
- Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
- Notes: Michael Fowler Centre Auditorium, Wellington, New Zealand (02/09/2005-02/11/2005)
- Running Time: 1 min. 47 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1934
Howells, Herbert : Elegy, for viola, string quartet & string orchestra - Performers: David Gilling (Violin); Helen Callus (Viola); Vesa-Matti Leppanen (Violin); Vyvyan Yendoll (Viola); David Chickering (Cello)
- Conductor: Marc Taddei
- Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
- Notes: Michael Fowler Centre Auditorium, Wellington, New Zealand (02/09/2005-02/11/2005)
- Running Time: 10 min. 45 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Written: 1917
Walton, William : Concerto for Viola - Performer: Helen Callus (Viola)
- Conductor: Marc Taddei
- Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
- Notes: Michael Fowler Centre Auditorium, Wellington, New Zealand (02/09/2005-02/11/2005)
- Running Time: 27 min. 40 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Form: Concerto
- Written: 1928-1961
Bowen, York : Concerto for Viola in C minor, Op. 25 - Performer: Helen Callus (Viola)
- Conductor: Marc Taddei
- Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
- Notes: Michael Fowler Centre Auditorium, Wellington, New Zealand (02/09/2005-02/11/2005)
- Running Time: 32 min. sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Written: 1908
