A chance for the viola – and about time, too
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
It is nothing short of a scandal that not one concerto for viola and orchestra has broken into the standard concerthall repertoire. There are at least fifty violin concertos that get regularly played and half a dozen for cello and orchestra. Yet, among a plethora of viola concertos by good composers — from Arnold to Bartok, Schnittke to John Williams — not one gets as much as a half-chance for public attention. In any other field, this would be considered illegal discrimination….
Read on here.
And here.
If you say so. I doubt most people would even notice if the entire instrument and all its players suddenly went up in a poof of smoke, but like so much in classical music, who cares?
Well, it’s just a BIG violin….