![]() Your daughter will have to make a better job of playing it than I can (not a difficult feat - I don't tackle Schwanendreher), if she wants to perform it. ![]() I made a transcription of Dowland's Melancholy Galliard for solo viola ( ). ![]() Kathleen Ferrier's viola player interpreted them the same way I try to. If she can get hold of a contralto, the Brahms songs are just marvellous. Much later, I saw Watson Forbes's arrangement, in which he puts the 2nd movement passage into the piano part, but I still prefer to keep it on the viola and jump up. ![]() Frederick Bridge realisation is out of copyright, and I had to beg a copy from the National Library of Canada however, it is now commercially available at. When I performed it, I simply put it down an octave, except for the last 5 quavers of bar 28 plus bar 29 in the second movement (which I played slightly softer, to compensate for the minor 14th upwards jump) I also went into octaves for the climax of the third movement, which horrifies purists but the audience loved it. The Purcell G-minor violin sonata is one of my favourite pieces and also goes down well on the viola. York Bowen wrote some good stuff for the viola. There are also the Brahms clarinet/viola sonatas (He himself specified them for either instrument, quite significant when one considers that it was a clarinet player that inspired him).
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