Release Date: 14 October 2011
Label: Ondine
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 761195118825
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Berlioz/ Pag
Description
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 The present recording features, for the first time, an unpublished more virtuosic soloist part written for Paganini.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 Nicolo 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 protege for The Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative, being the youngest in this mentorship programme's history. David Aaron Carpenter has been the protege of several major international musical figures, such as Pinchas Zukerman, Yuri Bashmet and Christoph Eschenbach."
Tracklisting
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai; Robert Trevino
Latvian Radio Choir; Sigvards Klava
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra; Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra; Helsinki Chamber Choir; Nicholas Collon
Reinis Zarins; Trio Palladio; Raffi Kharajanyan
Lawrence Power; Turku Philharmonic Orchestra; Olli Mustonen
Marko Ylonen; Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra; Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra; Sinfonietta Riga; Jo
Wu Wei; Eldbjorg Hemsing; Ida Nielsen; Stavanger Symphony Orchestra; Andris Poga
Mahler Academy Orchestra; Philipp von Steinaecker
Various Artists
Yulianna Avdeeva
Simon Trpceski; Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Thomas Sondergard
Plamena Nikitassova; Les Elemens
Patrick Him, Kirsten Docter, Shuai Want, John Diodati, Paul Vaillancourt, Catherine Ramirez, Jennet
Nicolas Altstaedt; Ian Bostridge; Olli Mustonen
Maurizio Croci
