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Winter Remembered, Op.86

Category Orchestral > Concertos
Composed 2001
Duration (approx) 15 minutes
Parts 

Viola, strings (5.4.3.2.1)

Recording(s) British Viola Music
Publisher Faber Music
Commission 

Deal and Presteigne Festivals

First performance 10 August 2002
Venue St George's Church, Deal
Orchestra / Ensemble Deal Festival Orchestra
Conductor George Vass
Soloists / Players Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola)
Review Roderick Dunnett, Church Times, 13 September 2002
  

The Viola Concerto was tinged with folk melody, and seemed to embrace Moravia and the Munros, the roseate English rapture of Tippett’s Corelli Fantasia, and the darkly mysterious world of Verklarte Nacht, while ingeniously opening up space around the solo line of Sarah-Jane Bradley.