Various Composers - Motherland (David Aaron Carpenter)

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CD1:

• Antonín Dvořák - Cello Concerto, Op. 104 (arr. Joseph Vieland & D.A. Carpenter)
• Béla Bartók - Viola Concerto, Sz. 120 (compl. Tibor Serly)
• Alexey Shor - Seascapes

CD2:

• William Walton - Viola Concerto
• Alexey Shor - Two Songs for My Children
• Alexey Shor - The Well Tempered Chanson

David Aaron Carpenter, violin

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Vladimir Jurowski, Kazushi Ono & David Parry, conductors

Date: 2018

Label: Warner Classics

https://www.warnerclassics.com/release/motherland

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Review

What a fascinating study of an instrument not frequently heard in a solo role:  the viola!  On Motherland, superstar violist David Aaron Carpenter shows us the range and depth of his instrument.

Carpenter is certainly no stranger to Philadelphia audiences.  He won the Greenfield Student Competition with The Philadelphia Orchestra and, in 2005 at age 19, made his debut with them playing the Walton Viola Concerto.

Since then he has made concert appearances and recordings with numerous orchestras, cementing his reputation as, according to one review, “the hottest violist of the 21st Century.”

While solo repertoire for the viola with orchestra isn’t all that plentiful compared to the violin or cello, arrangements have cropped up over the years that allow the viola a flashier role.  Such is the Dvorak Cello Concerto arranged by Joseph Vieland a number of years ago, and edited by Carpenter, which you’ll find on this two-CD set. 

There are the staples of the solo viola repertoire…the Bartok and Walton concertos for viola and orchestra, and works by contemporary composer Alexey Shor.  Born in Kiev, Shor has written three marvelous works on this album that are really entertaining. 

On Motherland Carpenter identifies a connecting theme.  Listen for a “longing for the homeland…a reverence for native musical folk tunes and language.”

-- WRTI

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David Aaron Carpenter is an American violist and was the first Prize Winner of the 2006 Walter W. Naumburg Viola Competition. Growing up in Great Neck, Long Island, he studied at the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, Italy’s Accademia Chigiana, Switzerland’s International Music Academy, and the Verbier Festival Academy. Among his teachers are Pinchas Zukerman, Roberto Diaz, Seiji Ozawa, Nobuko Imai and Yuri Bashmet. Since 2003 Carpenter has been performing with leading musicians and orchestras in the United States and Europe. Along with his two siblings, the trio perform as The Carpenters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Aaron_Carpenter

http://davidaaroncarpenter.com/

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