Walton Viola Concerto - The Shean Strings Competition Final Round - Emad Zolfaghari, viola

William Walton Viola Concerto

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Loving your sensitive musical interpretation of this concerto- would also love to hear you play it with full orchestra.

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the third movement was beautiful

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A bit to unpack. First up the 'orchestra': well done to the pianist. What a thankless task. A concerto is amongst other things a dialogue or contest even between a soloist and orchestra. Reduced to piano this is pretty much mission impossible. He made a good fist of it. Soloist. There are passages where the music is not just notes, but tenderness and longing. My perception is that you achieved the meaning of this music. Well done sir. My favourite recording of this is by Menuhin with Walton conducting. (The LP is overwhelmingly better than the CD - transcriptions and all that). Lovely horns. Wouldn't it be nice to hear you in a commercial recording.

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seriously you’re so underrated i love your viola playing