The complete music for viola and piano/harp (2001)

"There is something satisfying about having a composer’s complete works for a particular medium on one CD, especially when the works are as well played and recorded as in this release from Koch. Bax’s interest in the viola was aroused when he was a student at the Royal Academy of Music by the presence on the staff of the great English violist Lionel Tertis. It was Tertis who gave the first performances of the three pieces with piano recorded here, as well as the Phantasy for viola and orchestra, and it was for him that Bax began writing a second Viola Sonata in about 1933, though it was finally abandoned, with some of the material being used in the Sixth Symphony. Ivo-Jan van der Werff has an exceptionally pure and secure viola tone, and both Hugh Webb and Simon Marlow are worthy partners." (arnoldbax.com)

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