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21ST CENTURY VIOLIN CONCERTOS

HARRIET MACKENZIE, VIOLIN

ENGLISH STRING ORCHESTRA

KENNETH WOODS

AN EVENTFUL MORNING IN EAST LONDON

21ST CENTURY VIOLIN CONCERTOS

PAUL PATTERSON

Allusions for 2 solo violins and strings (2007)1 I False Impressions. Vivace vigoroso 5.492 II Mindscape. Crotchet= 68 8.503 III Beneath the Surface. Presto 4.38 Retorica (Harriet Mackenzie, Philippa Mo - violins)

DEBORAH PRITCHARD

4 Wall of Water (2014) Violin Concerto 21.07 Written in response to the paintings of Maggi Hambling

DAVID MATTHEWS

5 Romanza for solo violin and string orchestra (2012) 10.49 Andante appassionato: Tempo di valse: Tempo I

ROBERT FOKKENS

6 An Eventful Morning Near East London (2006) Violin Concerto* 13.12

EMILY DOOLITTLE

7 ‘falling still’ for violin and strings (2001) 5.09

Harriet Mackenzie, violinEnglish String Orchestra

English Symphony Orchestra*Kenneth Woods, conductor

Harriet Mackenzie writes: This recording wasinspired by my long-term working relationships withand respect for these composers. Contemporary musichas always interested me. It is exhilarating to receive ascore, often unseen by anyone else other than thecomposer. What is wanted? What is possible? Eachpiece a new discovery – a voyage into unchartedterritories. When one is able to collaborate directly withthe composer on a premiere it is a particularly heady mix. The five composers represented here are all nowbased in Britain, but there is a colourful tapestry ofdifferent ethnicities, cultures, interests and influencesbetween them. I feel so lucky and privileged to haveworked with each one of these composers with theirunique and powerful voices. My hope is that this diskwill bring more attention to their work. Each one ofthese works is a premiere recording, and I am thrilledthat the composers were all present for the sessions. Thenew-ness of these pieces is a wonderful addition to thelong-standing reputation and tradition of the ESO, anorchestra which has done so much to champion newand unknown British music for nearly forty years,including their associations with Tippett, McCabe, Mawand Joubert. Now, under the leadership of KennethWoods, I am proud that these works are part of thattradition.

Harriet Mackenzie

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Catalogue Number NI 6295 Total Playing Time 69.41 Price Code N4 Category Full Price Number of Discs 1 Barcode / UPC 0710357629525

FRENCH ORGAN MUSIC

FROM THE GOLDEN AGE VOL.5

DAVID PONSFORD

DAVID PONSFORD

FRENCH ORGAN MUSIC

FROM THE GOLDEN AGE VOLUME 5Premier livre d'orgue

Organ of Sarlat Cathedral with L’école de Nivers

NICOLAS DE GRIGNY (1672-1703)CD 1 LA MESSE 76.131-9 Kyrie 17.0710-27 Gloria 30.3928 Offertoire 7.5829-32 Sanctus 3.1633-35 Benedictus 5.4036-39 Agnus Dei 9.1140-41 Deo gratias 2.00

CD 2: LES HYMNES 69.191-9 Veni Creator 19.4010-14 Pange Lingua 12.1215-21 Verbum Supernum 11.1422-28 Ave Maris Stella 12.4629-35 A Solis Ortus 13.11

French organ music from the period of Louis XIV to theRevolution has always held fascination for performersand listeners alike. The kaleidoscope of colours, therich and varied styles, and the sheer exuberance of themusic never fail to captivate. Yet, performance practiceof this music has never been fully understood.

David Ponsford has spent much of his career studyingthis repertoire, resulting in his book French OrganMusic in the Reign of Louis XIV (Cambridge UniversityPress, 2011). The present series of recordings on themost important historical organs in France, includingthe music of Guillaume-Gabriel Nivers, LouisCouperin, Nicolas-Antoine Lebègue, André Raison,Jacques Boyvin, François Couperin, Nicolas de Grigny,Louis Marchand, Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, up tocomposers of the Revolution such as Balbastre,Beauvarlet Charpentier and Lasceux, is therefore thefruit of many years of research by a seasonedperformer whose aim is to combine technical brilliancewith intellectual understanding, to bring the musicalive with authority and meaning.

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FRENCH ORGAN MUSIC FROM THE GOLDEN AGE

Volume 1 - Couperin & Du MageCat No: NI 6213

Price Code: N4 • UPC: 0710357621321

Volume 2 - Couperin & CharpentierCat No: NI 6225

Price Code: N4 • UPC: 0710357622526

Volume 3 - Raison & ClérambaultCat No: NI 6268

Price Code: N4 • UPC: 0710357626821

Volume 4 - Nivers & LebègueCat No: NI 6292

Price Code: N4 • UPC: 0710357629228

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Catalogue Number NI 6342 Total Playing Time 2 hrs 25 mins Price Code N5 Category Full Price Double Number of Discs 2 Barcode / UPC 0710357634222

IN THE AGE OF RAVEL

RANSOM WILSON

FRANÇOIS DUMONT

IN THE AGE OF RAVEL

RANSOM WILSON, fluteFRANÇOIS DUMONT, piano

1 MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937) Vocalise-étude en forme de Habanera 3.05

2 GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845-1924) Fantaisie Op. 79 5.00

GABRIEL PIERNÉ (1863-1937) Sonate Op. 363 I Allegretto 9.034 II Allegretto tranquillo 4.195 III Andante non troppo 7.44

6 ALBERT ROUSSEL (1869-1937) Andante et Scherzo 4.44

7 GABRIEL PIERNÉ

Canzonetta Op. 19 3.33

8 MAURICE RAVEL

Mouvement de sonate 14.00

ALBERT ROUSSEL

Joueurs de flûte Op. 279 I Pan 2.5710 II Tityre 1.0811 III Krishna 3.0112 IV Mr de la Péjaudie 1.40

13 GABRIEL FAURÉ

Berceuse Op. 16 3.13

Total playing time 63.29

RANSOM WILSON has long been recognizedinternationally as one of the greatest flutists of hisgeneration. After graduation from the Juilliard Schoolin 1973, he spent a year in Paris as a private student ofJean-Pierre Rampal. As flute soloist, he has appearedin concert with some of the greatest orchestras andartists of our time, including the Chicago Symphony,Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony,London Symphony, Frederica von Stade, JessyeNorman, Thomas Hampson, Susan Graham, DoloraZajick, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Hilary Hahn, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Sir James Galway, and many others.

FRANÇOIS DUMONT is a prize winner of the mostprestigious international competitions: the QueenElisabeth Competition (Brussels), the ChopinCompetition (Warsaw), the Cleveland InternationalCompetition in the United States and the Clara HaskilCompetition in Switzerland. In 2012, he was receivedthe prize of Révélation de la Critique Musicalefrançaise. Born in 1985 in Lyon, François Dumontworked with Pascale Imbert, Chrystel Saussac andHervé Billaut before being admitted at the age offourteen to the Conservatoire National Superior ofMusic and Dance of Paris in the class of Bruno Rigutto.With Virginie Constant and Philippe Aïche, he is amember of the Trio Elégiaque.

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Catalogue Number NI 6344 Total Playing Time 63.29 Price Code N4 Category Full Price Number of Discs 1 Barcode / UPC 0710357634420

RANSOM WILSON PLAYS

DAMASE & FRANÇAIS

CHAMBER MUSIC WITH FLUTE

Cat No: NI 6304UPC: 0710357630422

Price Code: N4

GORDON CROSSEELEGY FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA OP.1

CONCERTO FOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OP.8CONCERTINO OP.15

VIOLIN CONCERTO NO.2 OP.26

‘If [a composer] has “something to say”, it can besaid only through his technique; he has no control over“inspiration”. The surest way of writing dull music isto sit down with one’s head full of “Beauty” or“Socialism” instead of crotchets and quavers’. Thisno-nonsense approach to his craft has served GordonCrosse well during his long career as a creative artist. Crosse was born in Bury, Lancashire on 1December 1937. He won a place at Oxford University,where he studied with Egon Wellesz and Bernard Rosebetween 1958 and 1963. In the spring of 1962, followingthe advice of Peter Maxwell Davies, he studied forthree months with Goffredo Petrassi in Rome. From1964 onwards he combined composition with variousteaching appointments at the Universities ofBirmingham, Essex and King’s College Cambridge.After growing disenchantment with his profession, hegave up composition altogether between 1990 and2007. The five works presented here all date from the1960s. It was a period of great success and acclaim – in1966 he was granted the Vaughan Williams Composerof the Year Award for his ‘outstanding contribution toBritish music’ and in the same year an article in TheTimes devoted to his output began with a quotereferring to him as ‘the most exciting composer to haveappeared in Britain since Richard Rodney Bennett’.

Paul Conway

Catalogue Number REAM.1133 Total Playing Time 67.36 Price Code N2 Category Mid Price Number of Discs 1 Barcode / UPC 5020926113320

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GORDON CROSSE (b. 1937)

1 ELEGY FOR SMALL ORCHESTRA OP. 1 (1960) 8.20 BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar

BBC Broadcast 9 September 1965

2-4 CONCERTO FOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OP. 8 (1962) 11.41 Budapest Symphony Orchestra conducted by György Lehel

BBC Broadcast 3 July 1968

5-10 CONCERTINO OP. 15 (1965) 12.51 Melos Ensemble Richard Adeney, flute Peter Graeme, oboe Gervase de Peyer, clarinet Cecil Aronowitz, viola

BBC Broadcast 26 October 1965

11-12 VIOLIN CONCERTO NO.2 OP. 26 (1969) 34.44 BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis

BBC Broadcast 7 September 1970

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PURGATORY

AN OPERA IN ONE ACT

Cat No: SRCD.313Price Code: N1

UPC: 5020926031327

ARIADNE & CHANGES

Cat No: SRCD.259Price Code: N4

UPC: 5020926025920

WAGNER PARSIFAL

HALLÉ • SIR MARK ELDER

Following their acclaimed previous Wagner operareleases, Hallé present the re-mastered recording oftheir 2013 Prom performance, recorded live at theRoyal Albert Hall.

“Working with his orchestra, the Hallé, Sir Mark Elderproduced an account of this miraculous score which,for a combination of passion and precision, surpassedany other that I have ever heard.”Michael Tanner, The Spectator, 31 August 2013

Wagner’s last opera, Parsifal, which the composerdeclared to be his “farewell to the world” has beendescribed as being in many ways the most “total” of allhis “total art works”. His spiritual swansong unfurlsas a slow-moving, ritualistic drama, and is arguablythe best-suited of all his operas to the style of concertstaging offered here.

Recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall, London at the2013 BBC Proms, featuring dramatic spatial placing ofoff-stage choruses and musicians.

Audio re-mastered by Hallé’s award winning engineerSteve Portnoi: the original multitrack recordings ofboth rehearsals and concert were edited to eliminateaudience noise whilst retaining the sense of place andthe staged nature of the performance. The editedmultitrack was then remixed to achieve a sound inkeeping with Hallé label releases.

Catalogue Number CDHLD7539 Total Playing Time 3 hrs 59 mins Price Code N6 Category Box Set Number of Discs 4 Barcode / UPC 5065001341458

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RICHARD WAGNER (1813–1883)PARSIFAL

‘Festival play for the consecration of a stage’in three acts - text by the composer

1-9 CD 1 – ACT I 61.341-10 CD 2 – ACT I 42.101-12 CD 3 – ACT II 63.141-15 CD 4 – ACT III 72.06

Parsifal Lars ClevemanKundry Katarina DalaymanGurnemanz Sir John TomlinsonAmfortas Detlef RothKlingsor Tom FoxTiturel Reinhard HagenFirst Knight Robert MurraySecond Knight Andrew GreenanSquires Sarah Castle, Madeleine Shaw, Joshua Ellicott, Andrew ReesFlower Maidens Elizabeth Cragg, Anita Watson, Sarah Castle, Ana James, Anna Devin, Madeleine ShawVoice from Above Madeleine Shaw

Hallé Youth Choir • Richard Wilberforce directorRoyal Opera Chorus • Renato Balsadonna director

Trinity Boys Choir • Michael Holiday chorus-masterTHE HALLÉ • SIR MARK ELDER CONDUCTOR

Recorded at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall,London, Sunday 25 August 2013

CARL JONAS LOVE ALMQVIST

WORKS FOR FORTEPIANO

LENNART HEDWALL

CARL JONAS LOVE ALMQVIST

WORKS FOR FORTEPIANO

LENNART HEDWALL

1. Love Almqvist * 8.192. Marie Louise 2.503. Ludvig Carl Wilhelm * 6.024. Min mors minne * 3.155. Afsked till min Fader 5.286. Vendelas mörka locker 2.357. Richard Furumo * 8.528. Nyniannes röst 1.199. Det doftar i Skogen 3.1510. Ifrån Leonard 2.2811. Hjertats Bön * 6.0812. Gurrhanas Dans 1.4813. En Pingstmorgon 3.0114. Zingari-Fest * 4.0915. La Caraffa * 4.2616. Niakuns Polska 1.0217. Nicoline * 4.1418. Cecilias Fråga * 5.23

* World première recordings

Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793-1866) is one ofthe few yet current Swedish authors prior toStrindberg. Most of his writings he collected in theuniversal work Törnrosens Bok (The Book of the Thorn-rose), in which he wanted to unite ”picture, music andscript together, and mould into a single brand” andthus create a kind of Gesamtkunstwerk. He was also strictly speaking ”only” a talentedamateur, although he often claimed that deep down hewas primarily a musical person. Already during orshortly after his illustrious Värmland adventure 1823-24 – when he left Stockholm for living an idealizedpeasant life in the small village Köla – he produced twolarge note booklets, one for voices and one forkeyboard. Both wear the title Free Musical Fantasies,and they associate directly to his literary counterpart,originally called “Free Fantasies, which, considered as anentity, by Mr Hugo Löwenstierna sometimes calledTörnrosens Bok [The Book of the Thorn-rose].

Lennart Hedwall is a musically versatilegentleman who has been active as a composer, pianist,organist, conductor, pedagogue and musicologist. Hestudied with, among others, Olof Wibergh, GottfridBoon, Tor Mann, Sven-Erik Bäck and Karl-BirgerBlomdahl and in Darmstadt, Vienna and Paris. Hedwall has in addition published biographies ofHugo Alfvén, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Erik GustafGeijer, Oscar Byström and Carl Jonas Love Almqvist,books called Operetta and musicals, The SwedishSymphony and Swedish Music History. H discoveredAlmqvist's compositions in the early 1950s and hasbeen campaigning for at symposiums and concerts andon radio. In 1984, he won together with singer IwaSörensen a Grammy for a LP with works by Almqvist.

Catalogue Number CDA1808 Total Playing Time 74.45 Price Code N4 Category Full Price Number of Discs 1 Barcode / UPC 7393338180821

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DICK CATHCART

PETE KELLY’S BLUES

HIS 25 FINEST • 1950-1959

Catalogue Number RTR 4308 Total Playing Time 78.18 Price Code N1 Category Mid Price Number of Discs 1 Barcode / UPC 0710357430824

Pete Kelly & His Big Seven:1 Pete Kelly’s Blues2 Smiles3 I Never Knew

Ben Pollack & His Pick-A-Rib Boys:4 Royal Garden Blues5 Tin Roof Blues Pete Kelly & His Big Seven:6 What Can I Say After I Say I’m Sorry?7 Sugar, That Sugar Baby Of Mine8 Bye-Bye, Blackbird9 Hard Hearted Hannah10 Over There11 They Can’t Take That Away From Me Matty Matlock & His Dixie Men:12 Jazz Me Blues13 Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble14 Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider15 Sugar Foot Strut Quartet:16 Louisiana17 At The Jazz Band Ball Warren Baker & Orchestra:18 In A Mist19 Ja-Da Pete Kelly & His Big Seven:20 Fat Annie’s Place21 Ain’t We Got Fun?22 Chinatown, My Chinatown The Kings Of Dixieland:23 Dixieland Blues24 Carry Be Back To Old Virginny25 Battle Hymn Of The Republic

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‘Dick Cathcart’ (1924-1993) should be a namefamiliar to all jazz enthusiasts as one of the greattrumpeters. In fact, this Retrospective survey of the 25finest of his wonderful 50s recordings is the first CD tobe devoted to this most under-rated of artists. With agroup of like-minded musicians from Ben Pollack’sPick-A-Rib Boys such as clarinettist Matty Matlock andtenor-man Eddie Miller, he made an enormous impactas “Pete Kelly’s Big Seven” – yet the general publicremained unaware that his was the sound of thefictitious Pete Kelly. One hearing of these tracks, aswell as other contemporary recordings and laterexamples with the Kings of Dixieland (plus thepersuasive advocacy of note-writer DigbyFairweather) will persuade anyone that here is some ofthe most thoroughly enjoyable, as well as brilliant,Dixieland jazz on record. The release happily joins a string of Retrospectives(now 15-strong!) spotlighting the trumpet masters ofjazz: Humphrey Lyttelton (RTS 4108), LouisArmstrong (RTR 4129), Bunny Berigan (RTR 4139), NatGonella (RTR 4146), Bix Beiderbecke (RTS 4154), BillyButterfield (RTR 4203), Bobby Hackett (RTR 4208), DonGoldie (RTR 4216), Red Nichols (RTS 4227), Henry RedAllen (RTS 4248), Muggsy Spanier (RTS 4254), WingyManone (RTS 4267), Harry Sweets Edison (RTS 4271),and Harry James (RTS 4281).

TEX WILLIAMS

I GOT TEXAS IN MY SOUL

HIS 29 FINEST • 1944-1954

Catalogue Number RTR 4309 Total Playing Time 79.15 Price Code N1 Category Mid Price Number of Discs 1 Barcode / UPC 0710357430923

Tex Williams & His Western Caravan:1 I Got Texas In My Soul2 Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette! Spade Cooley & His Orchestra:3 Shame On You4 I’ve Taken All I’m Gonna Take From You5 A Pair Of Broken Hearts6 You Can't Break My Heart7 Detour8 Crazy ’Cause I Love You Tex Williams & His Western Caravan:9 Rose Of The Alamo10 The California Polka11 Foolish Tears12 The Leaf Of Love13 Banjo Polka14 Talking Boogie15 Miss Molly16 That’s What I Like About The West17 Don’t Telephone, Don’t Telegraph, Tell A Woman18 Never Trust A Woman19 Artistry In Western Swing20 Suspicion21 Just A Pair Of Blue Eyes22 Who? Me?23 There’s A Bluebird On Your Windowsill24 Ham ’N’ Eggs25 Birmingham Bounce26 Wild Card Tex Williams & His String Band:27 Rancho Boogie Tex Williams & His Western Caravan:28 Life Gets Teejus, Don't It?

Bonus Track: Tex Williams:29 He’ll Have To Go (1960)

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This year we celebrate the centenary of Sollie“Tex” Williams (1917-1985), the great Country star ofthe 40s (who actually hailed from Illinois), famous forhis fast-talking monologues. He was one of the top tenmost successful Country recording artists of thedecade. After first gaining prominence, and having anumber of hits, as vocalist with the Spade Cooleywestern swing band, he formed his own WesternCaravan and went on to achieve 24 Country chartsuccesses between 1946 and 1974. I Got Texas In MySoul makes a notable addition to Retrospective’sCountry list. Of the relatively few Tex Williams CDscurrently on the market, none cover his late-40s goldenperiod so comprehensively.

Tex had Capitol Records’ first-ever million-seller with Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette!(ironically, he eventually died of lung cancer) andeight others of the genre that became his speciality areincluded (Life Gets Teejus, Don’t It? . . .). But with all hissongs delivered in laid-back style by his warm bass-baritone voice, it is easy to see why he was so popular. Sixof his recordings with Spade Cooley and his Orchestraare featured, all of them big hits such as the No.1smash Shame On You. In fact, all 19 of Tex’ Country Hitscharting at No.15 or above are featured, 13 of them TopFives (e.g. Dont Telephone, Don’t Telegraph, Tell AWoman . . .). The musical range is surprisingly wide,stretching as it does from the simple, chirpy CaliforniaPolka to the adventurous Stan Kenton number ArtistryIn Western Swing. And, as a special bonus track, there isTex’ 1960 cover version of possibly the biggest evercountry hit, He’ll Have To Go.

AUGUSTA READ THOMAS

AVIAN CAPRICCIO FOR BRASS QUINTET (NMP1031) • AVIAN ESCAPADES FOR WOODWIND QUINTET (NMP1030)

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Avian Escapades

Catalogue Number NMP1030

ISMN 979-0-708129-29-5

Barcode / UPC 9790708129295

Price Code N6

Category Music Score

Publisher Nimbus Music Publishing

First Published May 2016

Composer Augusta Read Thomas

Genre Chamber Music

Instrument Woodwind Quintet(Fl, Ob, Cl, Hn, Bn)

Score / Parts

40 page A4 saddlestitched score and

five 16 page A4 saddlestitched parts

Duration Approx. 12 Minutes

For more information contactNimbus Music Publishing, Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, NP25 3SR, UK

Tel: +44 1600 890 007 • wyastone.co.ukEmail: publishing@wyastone.co.uk

The three movements can be played together or anymovement can be played independently as a stand-alone work. To be performed along with dancers whenfeasible.I. Hummingbirds - imagine the musicians asplayful, capricious, virtuosic hummingbirds dartingaround a garden, whizzing across multifaceted, rapid-changing chord progressions in a bebop-like fasttempo.

II. Swans - majestically floating in a lake, as themorning sun gradually rises, are infused with BillEvans’ impressionist harmony and trademarkrhythmically independent, singing melodic lines.

III. Canaries - please envision active, jaunty and alertcanaries crisscrossing the perfumes of Charlie Parker’sYardbird Suite and Ornithology.

There are only seven dynamics used in this scorewhich often staggered and layered (niente, pp, p, mp,mf, f, ff) so that each “level” of volume has a clearmeaning and sound.

Augusta Read Thomas

Avian Capriccio was commissioned by Axiom Brass incelebration of their 10th Anniversary and premieredby them on September 16, 2016. Avian Escapades is are-orchestration and was premiered by BlairWoodwind Quintet on September 26, 2016.

Avian Capriccio

Catalogue Number NMP1031

ISMN 979-0-708129-30-1

Barcode / UPC 9790708129301

Price Code N6

Category Music Score

Publisher Nimbus Music Publishing

First Published November 2016

Composer Augusta Read Thomas

Genre Chamber Music

Instrument Brass Quintet(TP1, TP2, Hn, Tbn, Tba)

Score / Parts

40 page A4 saddlestitched score and

five 16 page A4 saddlestitched parts

Duration Approx. 12 Minutes

OTHER CHAMBER MUSIC WORKS BY AUGUSTA READ THOMAS

Venus Enchanted – I wanted to compose a short piece that “shows off” the players many talents: elegant softplaying, rich double stops, virtuosic music, athletic music, driving and passionate music, calm music etc. so as to

illustrate a variety of colours in sublime string playing. VENUS is the Roman goddess whose functionsencompass love, beauty, fertility, prosperity, victory and desire.

NMP1032 for solo violin • NMP1033 for solo viola • NMP1034 for solo cello