Rebecca Clarke, Ernest Bloch, Paul Hindemith - Viola 1919
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
Sonata for Viola and Piano
I. Impetuoso
II. Vivace
III. Adagio - Allegro
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Suite for Viola and Piano
I. Lento - Allegro - Moderato
II. Allgero Ironico
III. Lento
IV. Molto vivo
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op.11 No.4
I. Fantasie
II. Thema mit variationen
III. Finale
Yizhak Schotten viola
Katherine Collier piano
Rebecca Clarke (1886 -1979) was an English classical composer and violist best known for her chamber music featuring the viola.
She was born in Harrow and studied at the Royal Academy and Royal College of Music, later becoming one of the the first female professional orchestral players.
Although she wrote little, due in part to her ideas about the role of a female composer, her work was recognized for its compositional skill. Most of Clarke's works have yet to be published (or have only recently been published), and were largely forgotten after she stopped composing. Scholarship and interest in her pieces revived in 1976. The Rebecca Clarke Society was established in 2000 to promote scholarly study and performance of her music.
Selected works
For a more complete listing, see List of compositions by Rebecca Clarke.
"Shiv and the Grasshopper" (1904), vocal, text Rudyard Kipling
"Shy One" (1912), vocal, text Yeats
Morpheus (1917–18), viola and piano
Sonata (1919), viola (or cello) and piano
Piano Trio (1921), violin, cello, and piano
He that dwelleth in the secret place (Psalm xci) (1921), SATB choir with S,A,T,B solo
"The Seal Man" (1922), vocal, text John Masefield
Rhapsody (1923), cello and piano
"The Aspidistra" (1929), vocal, text Claude Flight
"The Tiger" (1929–33), vocal, text William Blake
Passacaglia on an Old English Tune (?1940–41), viola (or cello) and piano
Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale (1941), viola and clarinet
"God made a tree" (1954), vocal, text Katherine Kendall
This is a list of compositions by the English composer Rebecca Clarke.
"Wandrers Nachtlied" (ca. 1903), song, text Goethe
"Ah, for the red spring rose" (1904), song
"Aufblick" (1904), text Richard Dehmel
"Chanson" (ca. 1904), text Maurice Maeterlinck
"Klage" (ca. 1904), song, text Dehmel
"O Welt" (ca. 1904) , song
"Shiv and the Grasshopper" (1904), song, text Rudyard Kipling
"Stimme im Dunkeln" (ca. 1904), song, text Dehmel
"Du" (1905), song, text Richard von Schaukal
"The moving finger writes" (1905), song, text from the Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyám (tr. Fitzgerald)
"Oh, Dreaming World" (1905), song
"Wiegenlied" (ca. 1905), voice, violin, and piano, text Detlev von Liliencron
"Durch die Nacht" (1906), song, text Dehmel
"Nach einem Regen" (ca. 1906), song, text Dehmel
"Now fie on love" (ca. 1906), SATB choir
"Das Ideal" (ca. 1907), song, text Dehmel
"Magna est veritas" (1907), song, text Coventry Patmore
"Manche Nacht" (1907), song, text Dehmel
"Nacht für Nacht" (1907), song, text Dehmel
"Vergissmeinnicht" (1907), song, text Dehmel
"Music, when soft voices die" (1907), SATB choir, text Shelley
"A Lover’s Dirge" (ca. 1908), SATB choir, text Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Sonata (1907–9), violin and piano
Sonata (1908–9), violin and piano
Theme and Variations (1908, now lost)
"The Owl" (ca. 1909), SATB choir, text Tennyson
"Spirits" (ca. 1909), song for 2 high voices and piano, text Robert Bridges
Danse bizarre (1909, now lost), two violins
Lullaby (1909), viola and piano
"The Color of Life" (ca. 1910), song, text from traditional Chinese writings
"Return of Spring" (ca. 1910), song, text from traditional Chinese writings
"Tears" (ca. 1910), song, text from traditional Chinese writings
"The folly of being comforted" (ca. 1911), song, text William Butler Yeats
"Come, oh come, my life’s delight" (ca. 1911-12), SATB choir, text Thomas Campion
"My Spirit like a charmed bark doth float" (ca. 1911-12), SATB choir, text Shelley
"Shy One" (ca. 1912), song, text Yeats
"The Cloths of Heaven" (ca. 1912), song, text Yeats
"Weep you no more sad fountains" (ca. 1912), song, text Anonymous
"Away delights" (ca. 1912-13), song, 2 voices and piano, text John Fletcher
"Hymn to Pan" (ca. 1912-13), song, tenor, baritone, and piano, text Fletcher
Lullaby (1913), viola and piano
"Infant Joy" (ca. 1913), song, text Blake
"Philomela" (ca. 1914), song, text Sir Philip Sidney
Lullaby and Grotesque (ca. 1916), viola (or violin) and cello
Morpheus (1917-18), viola and piano
Untitled work for viola and piano (1917–18)
Lullaby (1918), violin and piano
Sonata (1919), viola (or cello) and piano
"Down by the salley gardens" (1919), song, text Yeats
Psalm 63 (1920), song
"Chinese Puzzle" (1921), violin and piano
Epilogue (1921), cello and piano
Piano Trio (1921), violin, cello, and piano
He that dwelleth in the secret place (Psalm xci) (1921), SATB choir with S,A,T,B solo
"The Seal Man" (1922), song, text John Masefield
Rhapsody (1923), cello and piano
Comodo et amabile (1924), string quartet
"Midsummer Moon" (1924), violin and piano
"June Twilight" (1925), song, text Masefield
Poem (1926), string quartet
"A Dream" (1926), song, text Yeats
"Sleep" (1926), song for tenor, baritone, and piano, text Fletcher
"Take, O take those lips away" (ca. 1926), song for tenor, baritone, and piano, text Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
"The cherry-blossom wand" (1927), song, text Anna Wickham
"Eight o-clock" (1927), song, text A.E. Housman
"Greeting" (ca. 1928), song, text Ella Young
"There is no rose of such virtue" (1928), baritone solo and alto, tenor, baritone, bass choir, after a 15th c. English carol
"The Aspidistra" (1929), vocal, text Claude Flight
"Cradle Song" (1929), song, text William Blake
Cortège (1930), piano
"The Tiger" (1929–33), vocal, text Blake
Ave Maria (ca. 1937), SSA choir
Untitled work for two violins (ca. 1940, unfinished)
"Binnorie" (ca. 1940), song after a traditional ballad
"Combined Carols" (1941), string quartet or string orchestra
Passacaglia on an Old English Tune (?1940–41), viola (or cello) and piano
"Lethe" (1941), song, text Edna St. Vincent Millay
Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale (1941), viola and clarinet
Dumka (ca. 1941), violin, viola, and piano
"Daybreak" (ca. 1941), voice and string quartet, text John Donne
"The Donkey" (1942), song, text G. K. Chesterton
Chorus from Hellas (ca. 1943), SSSAA choir
"I'll bid my heart be still" (1944), viola and piano
"God made a tree" (1954), vocal, text Katherine Kendall
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) was a Swiss-born American composer.
Works
Stage
Macbeth, Opera in 3 acts (1909 Geneva-Paris)
Orchestral
Symphony in C♯ minor (1902)
Hiver-Printemps (1905 Paris-Geneva)
Trois Poèmes Juifs for large orchestra (1913 Satigny)
Israel, Symphony for orchestra (1916 Geneva)
In the Night: A Love Poem (1922 Cleveland)
Poems of the Sea (1922 Cleveland)
Concerto Grosso No.1 for string orchestra with piano obbligato (1925 Santa Fe - Cleveland)
Four Episodes for chamber orchestra (1926 San Francisco)
Helvetia, Symphonic Poem (1929 Frankfurt - San Francisco)
Evocations, Symphonic Suite (1937 Châtel, Haute Savoie)
Suite Symphonique (1944 Agate Beach)
In Memoriam (1952 Agate Beach)
Concerto Grosso No. 2 for string orchestra (1952 Agate Beach)
Sinfonia Breve (1953 Agate Beach)
Symphony in E♭ (1955 Agate Beach)
Concertante
Schelomo, Rhapsodie Hébraïque for cello solo and large orchestra (1916 Geneva-New York)
Suite for viola and orchestra (1919 New York)
Voice in the Wilderness, Symphonic Poem for orchestra with cello obbligato (1936 Châtel, Haute Savoie)
Concerto for violin and orchestra (1938 Châtel, Haute Savoie)
Baal Shem for violin and orchestra (1939)
Concerto Symphonique for piano and orchestra (1948 Agate Beach)
Scherzo Fantasque for piano and orchestra (1948 Agate Beach)
Concertino for flute, viola and string orchestra (1948, 1950 Agate Beach)
Suite Hébraïque, for viola (or violin) and orchestra (1951 Agate Beach)
Symphony for trombone and orchestra (1954 Agate Beach)
Proclamation for trumpet and orchestra (1955 Agate Beach)
Suite Modale for flute and string orchestra (1956 Agate Beach)
Two Last Poems for flute solo and orchestra (1958 Agate Beach)
Vocal and choral
Historiettes au Crépuscule for mezzo-soprano and piano (1904 Paris)
Poèmes d'Automne for mezzo-soprano and orchestra (1906 Geneva)
Psaume 22 (1913 Satigny)
Deux Psaumes pour soprano et orchestre, précédés d'un prélude orchestral (1914 Satigny)
Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service) (1933 Roveredo-Ticino)
America: An Epic Rhapsody for chorus and orchestra (1926 San Francisco)
Chamber
Piano Quintet No.1 (1923 Cleveland)
Piano Quintet No.2 (1957)
String Quartet
String Quartet No.1 (1916 Geneva - New York)
String Quartet No.2 (1945 Agate Beach)
String Quartet No.3 (1952 Agate Beach)
String Quartet No.4 (1953 Agate Beach)
String Quartet No.5 (1956 Agate Beach)
In the Mountains (1925 Cleveland)
Night (1925 Cleveland)
Paysages (1925 Cleveland); the first movement Night was inspired by Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North
Prelude (1925 Cleveland)
Two Pieces (1938, 1950 Châtel, Haute Savoie - Agate Beach)
Three Nocturnes for piano trio (1924 Cleveland)
Instrumental
Violin
Sonata No.1 for violin and piano (1920 Cleveland)
Baal Shem (1923 Cleveland)
Poème Mystique, Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano (1924 Cleveland)
Nuit Exotique (1924 Cleveland)
Abodah (1929 San Francisco)
Mélodie (1929 San Francisco)
Suite Hébraïque for violin and piano (1951 Agate Beach)
Suite No.1 for violin solo (1958 Agate Beach)
Suite No.2 for violin solo (1958 Agate Beach)
Viola
Suite for viola and piano (1919 New York)
Suite Hébraïque for viola and piano (1951 Agate Beach)
Meditation and Processional for viola and piano (1951 Agate Beach)
Suite for viola solo (unfinished) (1958 Agate Beach)
Cello
Méditation Hébraïque (1924 Cleveland)
From Jewish Life (1925 Cleveland)
Suite No.1 for cello solo (1956 Agate Beach)
Suite No.2 for cello solo (1956 Agate Beach)
Suite No.3 for cello solo (1957 Agate Beach)
Suite Modale for flute and piano (1956 Agate Beach)
Piano
Ex-voto (1914 Geneva)
In the Night: A Love Poem (1922 Cleveland)
Poems of the Sea (1922 Cleveland)
Four Circus Pieces (1922 Cleveland)
Danse Sacrée (1923 Cleveland)
Enfantines, 10 pieces for children (1923 Cleveland)
Nirvana, Poem (1923 Cleveland)
Five Sketches in Sepia (1923 Cleveland)
Sonata (1935 Châtel, Haute Savoie); written for Guido Agosti
Visions et Prophéties (1936 Châtel, Haute Savoie)
Organ
6 Preludes (1949 Agate Beach)
4 Wedding Marches (1950 Agate Beach)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.
Works
List of compositions by Paul Hindemith
Operas
See List of operas by Hindemith.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operas_by_Hindemith
Ballets
Der Dämon, Op.28 (1922)
Triadisches Ballett, with Oskar Schlemmer (1923)
Saint Francis, with Léonide Massine (1938)
The Four Temperaments (scored for piano and strings) (1940)
Hérodiade (1944)
Orchestral
Lustige Sinfonietta, Op.4 (1916)
Ragtime (wohltemperiert) (1921)
Concerto for Orchestra, Op.38 (1925)
Konzertmusik für Blasorchester, Op.41 (1926)
Fünf Stücke für Streichorchester (Five Pieces for String Orchestra) (1927)
Konzertmusik for Brass and Strings, Op.50 (1930)
Philharmonic Concerto (Variations for Orchestra) (1932)
Symphony: Mathis der Maler (1933/1934)
Symphonic Dances (1937)
Nobilissima Visione, suite drawn from the ballet Saint Francis (1938)
Symphony in E-flat (1940)
Amor und Psyche (Overture to a ballet) (1943)
Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber (1943)
Symphony Serena (1946)
Symphonietta (Little Symphony) in E major (1949)
Die Harmonie der Welt Symphony (1951)
Symphony in B-flat for concert band (1951)
Pittsburgh Symphony (1958)
Marsch über den alten "Schweizerton" (1960)
Concertante
Cello Concerto, Op.3 (1916)
Klaviermusik mit Orchester for Left-Hand Piano and Orchestra, Op.29 (1923)
Kammermusik No.2 for Piano and Orchestra, Op.36 No.1 (1924)
Kammermusik No.3 for Cello and Orchestra, Op.36 No.2 (1925)
Kammermusik No.4 for Violin and Orchestra, Op.36 No.3 (1925)
Kammermusik No.5 for Viola and Orchestra, Op.36 No.4 (1927)
Kammermusik No.6 for Viola d'Amore and Orchestra, Op.46 No.1 (1927)
Kammermusik No.7 for Organ and Orchestra, Op.46 No.2 (1927)
Konzertmusik for Viola and Large Chamber Orchestra, Op.48 (1930)
Konzertmusik for Piano, Brass, and Harps, Op.49 (1930)
Der Schwanendreher for Viola and Small Orchestra (1935)
Trauermusik for Viola and String Orchestra (1936)
Violin Concerto (1939)
Cello Concerto (1940)
Piano Concerto (1945)
Clarinet Concerto (1947)
Horn Concerto (1949)
Concerto for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Harp, and Orchestra (1949)
Concerto for Trumpet, Bassoon, and Strings (1949)
Organ Concerto (1962)
Vocal
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd: (A Requiem for those we love), for soprano and baritone soloists,
chorus, and orchestra, based on the poem by Walt Whitman (1946)
Das Marienleben, Op.27, song cycle for soprano and piano, based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, which exists in two versions.
(There is also an orchestration by the composer of six of the songs from the cycle, for soprano and orchestra) (1923/48)
Six Chansons, 6 pieces for a cappella choir, settings of French poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke (1939)
Chamber
Three Pieces for cello and piano, Op.8 (1917)
Drei Stücke für 5 Instrumente (three pieces for five instruments) (1925) for clarinet in B, trumpet in C, violin, contrabass and piano
Scherzo for viola and cello (1934)
Eight Pieces for 2 violins, viola, cello and double-bass (1927)
Kammermusik No.1 Op.24 No.1, for chamber orchestra (1921)
Kleine Kammermusik Op.24 No.2, for wind quintet (1922)
Octet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, two violas, cello, and double bass (1958)
Quintet for clarinet and string quartet, Op.30 (1923, rev. 1954)
Quartet for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1938) [Recording: Grenadillamusic.com]
String Quartet No.1 in C, Op.2 (1915)
String Quartet No.2 in F minor, Op.10 (1918)
String Quartet No.3 in C, Op.16 (1920)
String Quartet No.4, Op.22 (1921)
String Quartet No.5, Op.32 (1923)
String Quartet No.6 in E-flat (1943)
String Quartet No.7 in E-flat (1945)
String Trio No.1, Op.35 (1924)
String Trio No.2 (1933)
Triosatz [retitled 'Rondo' by editor Siegfried Behrend] for three guitars (1925 or 1930)
Trio for viola, heckelphone (or tenor saxophone) and piano, Op.47 (1928)
Wind Septet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bass-clarinet, bassoon, horn and trumpet (1948)
Instrumental
Violin
Violin Sonata in E-flat, Op.11, No.1 (1918)
Violin Sonata in D, Op.11, No.2 (1918)
Violin Sonata in E (1935)
Violin Sonata in C (1939)
Sonata for Solo Violin, Op.31, No.1 (1924)
Sonata for Solo Violin, Op.31, No.2 (1924)
Viola
Viola Sonata, Op.11, No.4 (1919)
Viola Sonata, Op.25 No.4 (1922)
Viola Sonata (1939)
Sonata for Solo Viola, Op.11, No.5 (1919)
Sonata for Solo Viola, Op.25, No.1 (1922)
Sonata for Solo Viola, Op.31, No.4 (1923)
Sonata for Solo Viola (1937)
Cello
Variations on "A Frog He Went a Courting" for Cello and Piano
Cello Sonata, Op.11, No. 3 (1919)
Cello Sonata (1948)
Solo Sonata for Cello, Op.25, No.3 (1923)
Drei Leichte Stücke für Violoncello und Klavier (1938)
Viola d'Amore
Kleine Sonate for Viola d'amore and Piano, Op.25, No.2 (1922)
Flute
Canonic sonatina for two Flutes, Op.31, No.3 (1923)
Eight Pieces for Solo Flute (1927)
Flute Sonata (1936)
Bassoon Sonata (1938)
Oboe Sonata (1938)
Clarinet Sonata (1939)
Harp Sonata (1939)
Horn
Horn Sonata (1939)
Sonata for Four Horns (1952)
Alto Horn (also for French Horn or Alto Saxophone) Sonata (1943)
Trumpet Sonata (1939)
English Horn Sonata (1941)
Trombone Sonata (1941)
Double Bass Sonata (1949)
Tuba Sonata (1955)
Piano
In einer Nacht...
Sonate, Op.17 (1920)
Tanzstücke, Op.19 (1920)
Suite "1922", Op.26
Piano Sonata No.1 (1936)
Piano Sonata No.2 (1936)
Piano Sonata No.3 (1936)
Übung in drei Stücken, Op.37, Part 1
Reihe Kleine Stücke, Op.37, Part 2
Kleine Klaviermusik (1929)
Wir bauen eine Stadt (1931)
Variations (1936)
Piano Sonata (4 Hands) (1938)
Sonata for Two Pianos (4 Hands) (1942)
Ludus Tonalis (1942)
Organ
Organ Sonata No.1 (1937)
Organ Sonata No.2 (1937)
Organ Sonata No.3 (on ancient folk songs) (1940)
Rebecca Clarke, Ernest Bloch, Paul Hindemith - Viola 1919
1993, Crystal
Yizhak Schotten viola
Katherine Collier piano
