For folks who might be interested in romantic viola music, Antoine Tamestit has done a recording few years ago called Bel canto: the voice of the viola. It has both original viola music and opera transcriptions.
@oliverbostridge8370
Ай бұрын
I think Ropartz really shines in chamber music with piano. There's a clarity and folkiness there that I think doesn't come through in the symphonies or string quartets. I'd recommend his first cello sonata and his piano trio as standouts.
@gregorystanton6150
Ай бұрын
I have that recording of romantic viola sonatas and it’s a favorite - especially the Onslow and Kalliwoda. A couple of friends of mine performed three of the Kalliwoda nocturnes during a church service (prelude, offertory and postlude) and they really are marvelous pieces.
@LyleFrancisDelp
Ай бұрын
Never thought I would see the words “romantic” and “viola” in the same sentence.
@rensknieriem
Ай бұрын
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@bbailey7818
Ай бұрын
Berlioz Harold? Brahms Serenade 2?
@LyleFrancisDelp
Ай бұрын
@@bbailey7818 You misunderstand me
@stefanehrenkreutz1839
Ай бұрын
My reaction to the larger Ropartz works is much the same as yours, but there is a recording of his mélodies which I found to be well worth listening to.
@eels31
Ай бұрын
I almost view Ropartz in the same way as I view Reger: better when the proportions are smaller. Cause I like Ropartz's chamber music, especially the 3rd and 5th quartets, and I also vaguely remember a violin sonata of his sounding pretty nice. But I haven't been able to break into his larger symphonic works, though I'll confess to not giving them much of a chance. And Reger's basically the same, minus his quartets, which (to me at least) often sound so neurotically paranoid with being "serious" that it puts Brahms to shame 😅
@dmntuba
Ай бұрын
Wish I could, and would love to help you unpack & talk music 👍
@robhaynes4410
Ай бұрын
I absolutely *love* French romantic orchestral music, but, like you, I've never gotten hooked by Ropartz. There's a recording of his big Symphony 3 conducted by Plasson. I take it out every few years, play it, & don't absorb a single note. I dunno! 🤷♂️ I genuinely love Timpani, though. They have some amazing stuff.
@tomfinot623
Ай бұрын
#3 is the only one I don" like. In fact I think it tis awful. but the other four I like a lot.
@peterbogaerts
Ай бұрын
Thanks for the romantic viola suggestion. Tip for Dave: I store my albums of instrumentalists with different composers separately with the instruments in order of the orchestral score and the individual albums alphabetically on the name of the main instrumentalist. So the viola albums between the violin and cello albums. The viola starting with e.g. Adrien La Marca and ending with Tabea Zimmerman. Lovers of the romantic viola: listen to Zimmerman's album 'Romance Oublié': no sonatas, but a lot of breath taking romantic music.
@DavesClassicalGuide
Ай бұрын
That was an anomaly. I almost never file CDs that way. I was either rushing or thinking of something else.
@Tom-wf6ym
Ай бұрын
Did you say THREE layers deep?!
@razmigkechichian782
Ай бұрын
Dave, I find you a little harsh on the Ropartz quartets 😅 No. 3 in G major which you have on that disk doesn't really suffer from lack of thematic distinction, and it's closer to Debussy and Ravel rather than to Franck 😁 The trio of the scherzo in particular has a wonderful folk tune.
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