Sola – Music for Viola by Women Composers
Works by Bacewicz, Beamish, Feery, L Fuchs, I Holst, Lutyens, Maconchy and Musgrave
Rosalind Ventris (viola)
Delphian DCD 34292 64:40 mins
This brilliantly nichefeaturing 20th-and 21st-century music by female composers for solo viola, is one happy outcome of the pandemic. British violist Rosalind Ventris understandably found herself drawn to solo rapid repertoire during lockdown and spent hours tracking down less-known works for solo viola. As the project took shape, she was especially pleased to be placing the spotlight on her instrument: ‘given we spend so much time in the middle of a group, in the middle of the texture, it’s not every day that we hear the viola on its own.’
