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CD MUSIC FOR VIOLA

CD Music for Viola Extraplatte Ex 415-2 Wladimir Kossjanenko, Viola ; Vesna Podrug, Piano J. S. Bach: Chaconne from the Partita in D minor BWV 1004 P. Hindemith: Sonata op.11, nr. 4 N. Paganini/M. Kugel: Cantabile G. Bizet-F. Waxmann/M. Kugel: Carmen Fantasy C. Debussy-W. Borissowsky: “La fille aux cheveux du lin” C. Debussy-J. Strahow: “La plus que lente” D. Shostakovich-J. Strahow: Preludes op.34, nr. 18, 15, 24

CD Music for Viola

THE STRAD - LONDON, December 2002 Reviews CD’s Music for Viola Bach Chaconne Hindemith Sonata op.11 no.4 Paganini (trans. Kugel) Cantabile Bizet-Waxman (trans. Kugel) Carmen Fantasy Debussy (trans. Borisovsky) La fille aux cheveux du lin Debussy (trans. Strakhov) La plus que lente Shostakovich (trans. Strakhov) Preludes op.34 nos. 18, 15 & 24 Wladimir Kossjanenko (viola) Vesna Podrug (piano) EXTRAPLATTE EX 415-2 At the 1997 Tertis competition Wladimir Kossjanenko ‘set the place alight with his Bach Chaconne’, as Tully Potter put it in The Strad at the time. I was there too, and memories of that mesmerising performance were brought back by this CD. Kossjanenko (who was kicked out at the first round then) has developed into the very model of a modern Russian violist. While not for Baroque fundamentalists, Kossjanenko’s Bach is admirably paced in one huge, monumental arch, with the various episodes nicely contrasted. The Hindemith Sonata (the one original viola piece on this release, the title of which would never pass the Trades Description Act) comes over as a more substantial piece than is often the case, with both