Bach, Handel, Paganini: Viola Recitals

Editorial Reviews
Myron Rosenblum, founder and first president of the American Viola Society.
"Scott Slapin is a musician of great talent and abilities. His two CDs -- the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas for viola and the 'Two Viola Recitals' -- reveal a violist of technical accomplishments and superior musicality. He is a violist to watch." The world's foremost doublebass virtuoso Gary Karr said of Slapin's playing: "He has a beautiful sound with a compelling musical intensity, and he plays with a passion that demands one's attention. I especially liked his own pieces which, like his playing, are rich in emotional energy.... a very impressive display of artistry and musicality."

From the Label
These recordings were captured using a pair of Neumann KM-84 condenser microphones feeding a modified Symetrix SX-202 preamplifier. All interconnecting cables were by Mogami. The analog to digital conversion was handled by a Symetrix 620 twenty bit converter, dithered to sixteen bits and recorded with a Panasonic SV-3800 DAT recorder. Recorded and edited by Larry Bentley.

Album Description
This two CD set of shorter works includes Paganini Caprices 5 and 13, a new transcription of Ernst's fiendishly difficult variations on the Last Rose, Bloch's Prayer, Kreisler's Praeludium and Allegro, Handel's Largo (from Xerxes), premieres of works by Richard Lane and Scott Slapin, and several movements from Bach's 'Cello Suites and Handel's Violin Sonatas. A treasure of collected works from the Baroque to the present.

REVI,.,EW: Myron Rosenblum, founder and first president of the American Viola Society said: "Scott Slapin is a musician of great talent and abilities. His two CDs -- the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas for viola and the 'Two Viola Recitals' -- reveal a violist of technical accomplishments and superior musicality. He is a violist to watch." The world's foremost doublebass virtuoso Gary Karr said of Slapin's playing: "He has a beautiful sound with a compelling musical intensity, and he plays with a passion that demands one's attention. I especially liked his own pieces which, like his playing, are rich in emotional energy.... a very impressive display of artistry and musicality."

ARTISTBIO: Scott Slapin began lessons with Barbara Barstow. He studied with Emanuel

Vardi at the Manhattan school of Music where he graduated at the age of eighteen. Composers Gerald Busby, Richard Lane and David Noon have written solo works for Mr. Slapin. Also a composer, Mr. Slapin made his compositional debut at age fourteen in the State Theater of New Jersey.

The son of a doublebassist and cellist, Scott Slapin's first lessons were at the age of six. By the age of eighteen, Mr. Slapin had graduated from the Manhattan School of Music where he was the youngest student of Emanuel Vardi.

Slapin's cds are currently distributed in 22 countries internationally on the Eroica Classical Recordings label.

Mr. Slapin has given more than twenty solo recitals in the New York-New Jersey area over the past five years and has performed solo works by Paganini, Berlioz, Bloch and Bach with orchestras in both states.

Slapin's own compositions have been performed by the Philharmonic of New Jersey, the Brunswick Symphony Orchestra, the Hunterdon Symphony and by an orchestra of nearly fifty violas at the Lionel Tertis Competition in the United Kingdom. Slapin wrote his first full orchestral work at the age of thirteen which was hailed as a critical success following its 1988 premiere in the State Theater of New Jersey. In 1997 Slapin wrote and recorded his own Triptych for viola, 'cello and doublebass which he premiered in the same year at the Westminster Choir College.

Several outstanding modern composers including Gerald Busby, Richard Lane and David Noon have written solo viola works for Mr. Slapin. Scott Slapin was the on-stage solo violist in the New York City production of Busby's opera, 'Orpheus in Love' and later premiered Busby's Muse for Solo Viola, in the Weill Recital Hall. In 1995 Scott Slapin premiered and later recorded Richard Lane's Nocturne for viola and piano, and Mr. Slapin is currently recording all three of Richard Lane's viola sonatas.

Mr. Slapin has toured extensively throughout Europe and the United States and has varying degrees of proficiency in eight languages. Slapin, a former public and private school teacher, has taught viola and composition privately for more than ten years. Scott Slapin is currently principal violist of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and the Knoxville Chamber Orchestra and will appear on a soon to be released CD of the industrial band Android Lust on the Tinman Records label.

Bach, Handel, Paganini: Viola Recitals

Bach, Handel, Paganini: Viola Recitals, Music, Bach, Slapin, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, This Eroica CD contains some of the most beautiful music ever written for Cello solo and Cello with Ensemble performed on the viola. Music by Bach, Bloch, Paganini, and Handel.

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Brahms: Life & Works Brahms Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Instructional | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Spoken Word | Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Life and Works of Franz Schubert The Life and Works of Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky Life & Works of Bach The Life and Works of Franz Liszt Life & Works of Verdi ASIN: B00006RHPY Release Date: 2003-01-21

Tracks:

1. Destiny, Birth And Childhood
2. From Brothel To Beethoven
3. Hungarian Dance No. 1
4. A Life-Changing Tour
5. The Meeting With Joachim
6. Piano Sonata No. 3
7. Joachim Weighs In
8. Enter The Schumanns
9. Piano Sonata No. 3
10. Prophecy And Tragedy: A Double Yoke
11. Piano Trio No. 2
12. Brahms And Clara
13. Piano Sonata No. 1
14. A Triangular Bond
15. The Death Of Schumann - A Fateful Decision

Tracks:

1. The Young Messiah
2. Piano Concerto No. 1
3. The Virtuoso Takes Flight
4. Variations On A Theme By Paganini
5. Detmold And Distraction
6. Serenade No. 1
7. Birth Of The D Minor Concerto
8. Piano Concerto No. 1
9. The Taste Of Failure - And Of New Love
10. String Sextet
11. Love, Folly And A New Calling
12. Motet 'Ich Aber Bin Elend'
13. Brahms And Wagner
14. Variations And Fugue On A Theme By Handel
15. Frustrated Hopes And A Mother's Death
16. Trio For Horn, Violin And Piano

Tracks:

1. The Road To The Requiem
2. A German Requeim ('Denn Alles Fleisch Es Ist Wie Gras')
3. The Wanderer
4. Waltz In E
5. The Consummate Performer
6. Five Studies For Piano
7. Paradox Personified: The Tender Savage
8. Piano Concerto No. 2
9. A Demanding Friend
10. Variations On A Theme By Haydn (Or Variations On The St Antony Chorale
11. The Eternal Child
12. The Ghost Exorcised / Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Finale: 'Ode To Joy') / Symphony No. 1 (Finale: Opening)
13. Symphony No. 1

Tracks:

1. A Watershed In Brahm's Career
2. Symphony No. 2
3. The External Brahms
4. A Free Man At Last / Piano Sonata No. 1
5. Violin Concerto / The Rift With Joachim
6. The Composer At Work
7. Academic Festival Overture
8. Celebrity And Scholar
9. Motet 'Wenn Ein Starker Gewappneter'
10. Love, Loss And Reconciliation
11. Concerto For Violin And Cello
12. The Greatest Living Composer - But A Difficult Friend
13. The Philanthropist
14. Decline And Death
15. Piano Concerto No. 2

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Commuter Classics: Drive Time Am Manufacturer: Dorian Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Franz Joseph Haydn | Haydn, Franz Joseph | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Paganini, Niccolò | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sarasate | Sarasate, Pablo de | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Vivaldi | Vivaldi, Antonio | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Caprices | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Drive Time P.M.: Commuter Classics ASIN: B000058TGG Release Date: 2001-03-06

Tracks:

1. Kathren Oggie - The Baltimore Consort
2. Galope De Jonquiere/Mrs. Mary MacDonald - Laura Risk/Susie Petrov/Dennis Cahill/Christopher Layer/Brian Melick
3. Jenny Pluck Pears - The Baltimore Consort
4. Bobbling Joe - The Baltimore Consort
5. Merry, Merry Milkmaids - The Baltimore Consort
6. Reel De Chicoutimi - Chris Norman/Alasdair Fraser/Billy McComiskey/Robin Bullock/Paul Wheaton
7. Reel St. Jean - Chris Norman/Alasdair Fraser/Billy McComiskey/Robin Bullock/Paul Wheaton
8. Reel Eboulement - Chris Norman/Alasdair Fraser/Billy McComiskey/Robin Bullock/Paul Wheaton
9. Son Sesta in d: Allegro - REBEL/Jorg-Michael Schwarz
10. Air - The New York Kammermusiker
11. Bouree - The New York Kammermusiker
12. Hornpipe - The New York Kammermusiker
13. Air - The New York Kammermusiker
14. Air - The New York Kammermusiker
15. Ayres in g (Book 1): Il Genio Inglese - Chatham Baroque
16. Ayres in g (Book 1): Allegro - Chatham Baroque
17. Ayres in g (Book 1): Giga - Chatham Baroque
18. Ayres in g (Book 1): Gavotta - Chatham Baroque
19. Aria: 'Sich Uben Im Lieben' - Dorothea Roschmann
20. Con Ripieno in G, RV 151 'Alla Rustica': Presto - Les Vns Du Roy/Bernard Labadie
21. Con Ripieno in G, RV 151 'Alla Rustica': Adagio - Les Vns Du Roy/Bernard Labadie
22. Con Ripieno in G, RV 151 'Alla Rustica': Allegro - Les Vns Du Roy/Bernard Labadie
23. Capriccio Sopra La Battaglia - Burning River Brass
24. Sym No.12 in E: Finale (Presto) - Apollo Ens/John Hsu
25. Allegro - Julian Gray
26. Jota Navarra, Op.22 No.2 - Rachel Barton/Samuel Sanders
27. Canarios - Chatham Baroque/Becky Baxter/Danny Mallon
28. Bressarello - The Terra Nova Consort
29. Tout Mon Plus Grand Plasir - The Terra Nova Consort
30. Bailemos Nos Ja Todos - Kitka

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Bach, Handel, Paganini: Viola Recitals Manufacturer: Eroica Classical Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Bloch | Bloch, Ernest | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ernst, Heinrich Wilhelm | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Kreisler | Kreisler, Fritz | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Paganini, Niccolò | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004DS3G Release Date: 2000-01-06

Tracks:

1. J.S. Bach, Adagio and Fugue
2. Georg Friedrich Handel arr. by Scott Slapin, Largo (from Xerxes)
3. J.S. Bach, Sarabande, BWV 1008
4. Richard Lane, Nocture (Premiere)
5. Nicolo Paganini, Caprice No. 5, Agitato
6. Nicolo Paganini, Caprice No. 13, Adagio
7. J.S. Bach, Prelue, BWV 1010
8. Scott Slapin, A Crooked Dance
9. Scott Slapin, A Lament
10. Scott Slapin The Hassid and the Hayseed
11. Fritz Kreisler, Praeludium and Allegro

Album Description

REVI,.,EW: Myron Rosenblum, founder and first president of the American Viola Society said: "Scott Slapin is a musician of great talent and abilities. His two CDs -- the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas for viola and the 'Two Viola Recitals' -- reveal a violist of technical accomplishments and superior musicality. He is a violist to watch." The world's foremost doublebass virtuoso Gary Karr said of Slapin's playing: "He has a beautiful sound with a compelling musical intensity, and he plays with a passion that demands one's attention. I especially liked his own pieces which, like his playing, are rich in emotional energy.... a very impressive display of artistry and musicality."

ARTISTBIO: Scott Slapin began lessons with Barbara Barstow. He studied with Emanuel

Vardi at the Manhattan school of Music where he graduated at the age of eighteen. Composers Gerald Busby, Richard Lane and David Noon have written solo works for Mr. Slapin. Also a composer, Mr. Slapin made his compositional debut at age fourteen in the State Theater of New Jersey.

The son of a doublebassist and cellist, Scott Slapin's first lessons were at the age of six. By the age of eighteen, Mr. Slapin had graduated from the Manhattan School of Music where he was the youngest student of Emanuel Vardi.

Slapin's cds are currently distributed in 22 countries internationally on the Eroica Classical Recordings label.

Mr. Slapin has given more than twenty solo recitals in the New York-New Jersey area over the past five years and has performed solo works by Paganini, Berlioz, Bloch and Bach with orchestras in both states.

Slapin's own compositions have been performed by the Philharmonic of New Jersey, the Brunswick Symphony Orchestra, the Hunterdon Symphony and by an orchestra of nearly fifty violas at the Lionel Tertis Competition in the United Kingdom. Slapin wrote his first full orchestral work at the age of thirteen which was hailed as a critical success following its 1988 premiere in the State Theater of New Jersey. In 1997 Slapin wrote and recorded his own Triptych for viola, 'cello and doublebass which he premiered in the same year at the Westminster Choir College.

Several outstanding modern composers including Gerald Busby, Richard Lane and David Noon have written solo viola works for Mr. Slapin. Scott Slapin was the on-stage solo violist in the New York City production of Busby's opera, 'Orpheus in Love' and later premiered Busby's Muse for Solo Viola, in the Weill Recital Hall. In 1995 Scott Slapin premiered and later recorded Richard Lane's Nocturne for viola and piano, and Mr. Slapin is currently recording all three of Richard Lane's viola sonatas.

Mr. Slapin has toured extensively throughout Europe and the United States and has varying degrees of proficiency in eight languages. Slapin, a former public and private school teacher, has taught viola and composition privately for more than ten years. Scott Slapin is currently principal violist of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and the Knoxville Chamber Orchestra and will appear on a soon to be released CD of the industrial band Android Lust on the Tinman Records label.

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Two Viola Recitals Manufacturer: Eroica ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Bloch | Bloch, Ernest | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ernst, Heinrich Wilhelm | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Kreisler | Kreisler, Fritz | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Paganini, Niccolò | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00003W8AR Release Date: 1999-01-01

Tracks:

1. Adagio And Fugue (BWV 1011)
2. Prayer
3. Sarabande (BWV 1008)
4. Nocturne
5. No.5 'Agitato'
6. No.13 'La Rista'
7. Prld (BWV 1010)
8. A Crooked Dance
9. A Lament
10. The Hassid And The Hayseed

Tracks:

1. Adagio, HWV 370
2. Xerxes: Largo
3. Bourrees 1 And 2
4. Gigue
5. Andante
6. Allegro
7. Adagio
8. Allegro
9. Vars On The Last Rose
10. Fugue, HWV 361
11. Praeludium And Allegro

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Sonatas by Lane, Leclair and Handel Manufacturer: Eroica Classical Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Paganini, Niccolò | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005RCUL Release Date: 2000-07-07

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William Primrose Manufacturer: Enterprise ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Paganini, Niccolò | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schubert | Schubert, Franz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Sinfonia Concertante | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Viola | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Primrose, William | ( P ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000F1TG Release Date: 1998-11-17

Tracks:

1. Musicalisches Gesang-Buch G.C. Schemelli: 'Komm, Susser Tod' BWV 478 - William Primose/Vernon De Tar
2. Sinf Con in E flat, KV 364: I. Allegro Maestoso - William Primose/Albert Spalding
3. Sinf Con in E flat, KV 364: II. Andante - William Primose/Albert Spalding
4. Sinf Con in E flat, KV 364: III. Presto - William Primose/Albert Spalding
5. Vn Con No.2 in b, Op.7 (Rondo A La Clochette): 'La Campanella' - William Primose/Harry Isaacs
6. 'Ellens Gesang III' Lied D839: 'Ave Maria' - William Primose/Sidonie Goosens
7. 'Litanei Auf Das Fest Allerseelen' Lied D343 - William Primose/Vernon De Tar
8. 2 Lieder, Op.91: Geistliches Wiegenlied - William Primose/Marian Anderson/Franz Rupp
9. Con in b: I. Allegretto Moderato - William Primose
10. Con in b: II. Andante Con Moto - William Primose
11. Con in b: III. Allegro - William Primose

Track Listings:

1. Bach J.S: Partitas & Sonatas Bwv 1001-1006 [Import]
2. Bartók: Complete String Quartets Nos. 1-6
3. Bartók: Klavierkonzerte nos. 1 & 2
4. Bax: The Bard of the Dimbovitza; In Memoriam; Concertante for Piano and Orchestra
5. Beethoven: Folk Song Arrangements
6. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Coriolan Overture
7. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6; Fantasia
8. Beethoven: Symphony No 7; Haydn: Symphony No. 101; Mendelssohn: Scherzo from "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
9. Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets 1952 Recordings [Box set]
10. Bernstein: Arias & Barcarolles; Barber: School for Scandal Overture; Gershwin: American in Paris

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Network

Russian Music for Violin and Piano

South of I-10

Jazz-a-Bye: The Swing Set

Freeway Madness [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered]

Southern Soul

That's All

Odes on the death of Henry Purcell

Shichirika [Import]

Oak of the Golden Dreams

Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet

Magico Acordeon

Miralos Bien

Seven Standards and a Blues

Late Night At The Cafe Carlyle