CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FOR VIOLA
This section explores diverse contemporary viola music, encompassing modern viola compositions for solo performance, chamber music with viola, and extensive viola repertoire for the 21st century. It highlights new and innovative pieces, including works by Lior Navok.
UNACCOMPANIED VIOLA
This section presents contemporary unaccompanied viola music, featuring diverse modern viola solos and new viola pieces from the 20th and 21st centuries. It highlights innovative, experimental, and avant-garde solo viola compositions, showcasing progressive repertoire, including works by Lior Navok.
VIOLA CHAMBER MUSIC
DUOS
This section explores contemporary chamber music for viola, encompassing diverse modern viola ensemble pieces and new chamber music repertoire for string quartets and other configurations. It highlights innovative, cutting-edge, and progressive works featuring viola, including those by Lior Navok.
Dripping Minutes - Frozen Years
8' 30" | viola and piano
TRIOS/ QUARTETS / QUINTETS
V5 – Quintet for Vibraphone and String Quartet
for vibraphone and string quartet
17' | vibraphone, violins (2), viola and cello
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Three Episodes for Chamber Ensemble
for chamber ensemble
12' | flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, percussion (1), piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass
VOCAL MUSIC WITH VIOLA
for soprano and ensemble
10' 30" | leggiero soprano (also plays small percussion instruments), flute, viola, cello and harp
This section presents contemporary unaccompanied viola music, featuring diverse modern viola solos and new viola pieces from the 20th and 21st centuries. It highlights innovative, experimental, and avant-garde solo viola compositions, showcasing progressive repertoire, including works by Lior Navok.
STAGE MUSIC WITH VIOLA
for narrator and ensemble
31' | actress, violins (2), viola, cello double bass and piano
for actress and chamber ensemble / chamber orchestra
36' | actress, flute/piccolo, clarinet, percussion (1), two pianos and string quintet
OR
actress, flute/piccolo, clarinet, percussion (1), two pianos and string section
Sheet Music for Viola:
List of Key 20th–21st Century Viola Repertoire
Solo Viola
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Luciano Berio – Sequenza VI – solo viola – 1967
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Elliott Carter – Figment IV – solo viola – 2007
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György Ligeti – Sonata for Solo Viola – solo viola – 1994
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Paul Hindemith – Sonata for Solo Viola, Op. 25 No. 1 – solo viola – 1922
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John Cage – One8 – solo viola – 1991
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Toru Takemitsu – A Bird Came Down the Walk – solo viola – 1994
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Krzysztof Penderecki – Cadenza – solo viola – 1984
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Rebecca Clarke – Viola Sonata – solo viola – 1919
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Gérard Grisey – Prologue – solo viola – 1976
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Brian Ferneyhough – Incipits – solo viola – 1996
Viola and Piano
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Dmitri Shostakovich – Viola Sonata, Op. 147 – viola and piano – 1975
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Sergei Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet (arr. for viola and piano) – viola and piano – 1935-1936
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Claude Debussy – Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp – viola and piano – 1915
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Benjamin Britten – Lachrymae, Op. 48 – viola and piano – 1950
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Henri Vieuxtemps – Elegie, Op. 30 – viola and piano – 1854
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Ernest Bloch – Suite Hébraïque – viola and piano – 1951
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Frank Bridge – Lament – viola and piano – 1912
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William Walton – Viola Concerto (arr. for viola and piano) – viola and piano – 1929
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Aram Khachaturian – Sonata for Viola and Piano – viola and piano – 1976
Viola Chamber Works
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Anton Webern – Three Little Pieces, Op. 11 – viola and piano – 1914
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George Crumb – Sonata for Viola and Piano – viola and piano – 1965
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Karlheinz Stockhausen – Tierkreis – viola and piano – 1974-75
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Harrison Birtwistle – Pulse Shadows – viola and ensemble – 1989-1996
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Tania León – Axon – viola and ensemble – 2001
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Kaija Saariaho – Vent Nocturne – viola and electronics – 2006
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Steve Reich – Different Trains – viola and tape – 1988
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Tristan Murail – C’est un jardin secret – viola and electronics – 1976
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Helmut Lachenmann – Toccatina – viola and ensemble – 1986
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Gérard Grisey – Anubis-Nout – viola and ensemble – 1983
Viola Concertos
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Béla Bartók – Viola Concerto – viola and orchestra – 1945
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Paul Hindemith – Der Schwanendreher – viola and orchestra – 1935
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William Walton – Viola Concerto – viola and orchestra – 1929
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Alfred Schnittke – Viola Concerto – viola and orchestra – 1985
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Krzysztof Penderecki – Viola Concerto – viola and orchestra – 1983
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Bohuslav Martinů – Rhapsody-Concerto – viola and orchestra – 1952
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James MacMillan – Viola Concerto – viola and orchestra – 2013
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György Ligeti – Viola Concerto – viola and orchestra – 1993
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John Adams – The Dharma at Big Sur (viola version) – viola and orchestra – 2003
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Kaija Saariaho – Graal Théâtre (viola version) – viola and orchestra – 1994