The Couvent of the Mount Saint Bernard (Le Couvent du Mont Saint Bernard) for violin, wordless chorus and orchestra, M.S. 67

Mezzena, Franco (violin) / Coro Januensis / Orchestra da Camera di Genova / Plotino, Antonio (conductor)

LP [fold out]: Dynamic DS 4027

CD: Dynamic In Primis CDS 27

Recorded May or September 1983 (Genoa, Italy)

[Première recording]

Piece for horn, bassoon and orchestra in E major, M.S. 65

Vernizzi, Rino (bassoon) / Traverso, Franco (horn) / Orchestra da Camera di Genova / Plotino, Antonio (conductor)

LP [fold out]: Dynamic DS 4027

CD: Dynamic In Primis CDS 27

Recorded May or September 1983 (Genoa, Italy)

[Première recording]

Sonata for large viola (Sonata per la Grand Viola), for viola and orchestra in C minor, M.S. 70

Accardo, Salvatore (contraviola) / The Chamber Orchestra of Europe / Tamponi, Franco (conductor)

LP: Angel (Paganini, Volume 1) DS 38127

LP: EMI (Paganini, Volume 1) EL 27 0062–1

CD (2): EMI Digital Twins CZS 7 67567 2

Recorded 8 or 9 December 1983 (Abbey Road Studios, London, England)

Arad, Atar (viola) / Prunnbauer, Sonja (guitar) / Hungarica Philharmonic / Peters, Reinhard (conductor)

LP [fold out]: Telefunken (Viola Concertos) AW 6.42007

LP: Telefunken 666958

Recorded c.1976

[Prunnbauer provides additional accompaniment on the guitar]

Asciolla, Dino (viola) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Dutoit, Charles (conductor)

LP: Deutsche Grammophon 2530 629

Recorded c.1975

Bianchi, Luigi Alberto (viola) / RIAS Orchestra, Berlin / Delacôte, Jaques (conductor)

CD: Dynamic (Gran Viola) CDS 259

Recorded 1973 (RIAS, Berlin, Germany)

[Première recording]

Boguslavsky, Igor (viola) / Chamber Orchestra / Bezrukov, Georgi (conductor)

LP: Melodiya 33C10 12131/2

Recorded late 1970s ?

Fornaciari, Marco (viola) / Sebastiani, Adriano (guitar)

CD: Fone 93 F 20

CD (6): Fone 93 F 08

Recorded May 1993 (Villa Antonietta, Crespina, Italy)

[Arranged for viola and guitar]

Ganz, Heidrun (viola) / Pastor, Juan (guitar)

LP: Schwann Musica Mundi (The Viola Virtuoso) VMS 832

LP: Schwann VMS 1035

Recorded 1984

[Arranged for viola and guitar]

Imai, Nobuko (viola) / Orchestra ? / Chung, Myung-Whun (conductor)

LP: 6818991 [Private issue; label name ?]

Koch, Ulrich (viola) / Orchestra of Radio Luxemburg / Cao, Pierre (conductor)

LP: Turnabout TV 34606S

CD (2): Vox / Turnabout (Romantic Violin Music) 0011

Recorded December 1974

Koskinen, Eeva (viola) / Kaaij, Martin (guitar)

CD: Erasmus WVH 123

Recorded December 1993 (Dutch Reformed Church, Rhoon, Rotterdam, Netherlands)

[Arranged for viola and guitar]

Lénert, Pierre (viola) / Decamp, Nelly (guitar)

CD: Syrius SYR 141365

Recorded April 2001 (Grand auditorium de l'Ecole de Musique d'Aulnay-sous-Bois, France)

[Arranged for viola and guitar]

Maly, Lubomir (viola) / Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra / Konvalinka, Milos (conductor)

LP: Panton 8110 0464

Recorded 15 & 16 March 1984 (Dvořák Hall, Prague's House of Artists, Prague, Czech Republic)

Maly, Lubomir (viola) / Brabec, Lubomir (guitar)

CD: Multisonic Guitar Plus (Viola & Guitar) 31 0073–2

[Arranged for viola and guitar]

St. John, Scott (viola) / Wynberg, Simon (guitar)

CD: Naxos 8.550759

Recorded March 1993 (Orum Hall, Valparaiso, Indiana, USA)

[Arranged for viola and guitar]

Wallfisch, Ernst (viola) / North German Philharmonic Orchestra / Allers, Franz (conductor)

LP: Cambridge (In Memoriam: Ernst Wallfisch – Viola Virtuoso) CRS 3830

CD: Bayer Records (In Memoriam: Ernst Wallfisch) BR 200 028

Recorded 1976 (Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Köln, Germany)

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