Commissioned by the Wigmore Hall for the composer's 60th birthday with funds from ACNI.'viola:piano is one of a set of 6 pieces which I wrote in 2008 and 2009. Two of the others violin:piano and cello:piano requirethe instrumentalists to play at different tempi from each other throughout. In this piece the players are playing together but their material is for the most part quite different and for the first 12 minutes the two partshave little in common. It is only after this that they begin a more conventional contrapuntal relationship. This is the first of these pieces to be premiered. It was commissioned by the Wigmore Hall with funding from the ArtsCouncil of Ireland. The piece is dedicated to Mary R?rich.'????????????- Kevin Volans

For Viola and Piano this is the composer's first opused work. Premiered at the Wigmore Hall in July 1959 by Cecil Aronowitz and Margaret Kitchen.Wood: In 1957 I knew I had newly discovered the music of Schoenberg and hispupils and I knew at once that they were to show me the way forward for my music; as indeed they have ever since. The revelation was primarily an emotional experience for me and however imperfectly their influence wasreceived it was obviously reflected in the all-out chromaticism (new for me then) in the many chains of twelve notes or lesser chromatic formations (which do not here amount to serial working and have only rarely done sosince) in the characteristic harmonic and rhythmic formations the wide and sometimes angular intervals of the melodies and in general the introverted romanticism. Anyway I knew then that this was the sort of music that Ihenceforth would want to write and so I called these Variations my Opus One.The declamatory Introduction leads into the Theme heard on the viola. Six Variations follow of which No.3 is the most violent and No.4 the mostsustainedly lyrical. The recitative-like sixth variation leads into the Finale a more extended movement. The Theme returning on the piano leads to a climax at which there is a citation from Beethoven’s C minor Variations forpiano. Then their characteristics sequence of chords is heard on the piano as an accompaniment to the final statement of my own theme on the viola in the closing bars of the work.

This piece was originally composed in 1989 with a new version created in 2002 commissioned by cellist Kate Dillingham and premiering in April 2002 at Merkin Concert Hall in New York City.

Noël est le temps de la musique, le temps de jouer ensemble dans des ensembles différents. Le présent volume contient la plus belle et la plus connue allemands et internationaux chants de Noël avec un facilement jouable, mais un accompagnement au piano qui sonne bien. Un coffre au trésor pour les leçons, les concerts et la musique de décisions à la maison pendant la période de Noël. / Alto Et Piano

Avance rapide, partie de hautement considéré facile série de la Colledge de chaîne, est depuis longtemps le choix du répertoire des enseignants de la chaîne. Les pièces aident à renforcer les éléments de base de la technique, de rythme et de doigté des patrons, allant de pièces pour les débutants - inter / Alto Et Piano / Partition