# Johannes Brahms · Frank Bridge: Robert Mann

> Johannes Brahms · Frank Bridge: Robert Mann – David Aaron Carpenter, Members of the Berlin Philharmonic…. Ondine ODE 1246-2, CD, released October 2013.

Source: https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1246-2

- **Composer:** Johannes Brahms · Frank Bridge
- **Work(s):** Robert Mann
- **Performers:** David Aaron Carpenter, viola; Members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra:; Bernhard Hartog, 1st violin; Rüdiger Liebermann, 2nd violin; Walter Küssner, viola; Stephan Koncz, cello
- **Label:** Ondine
- **Catalogue no.:** ODE 1246-2
- **Format:** CD
- **Release date:** 1 October 2013
- **EAN / UPC:** 0761195124628
- **Tracks:** 7, total 53:33
- **Genres:** Chamber

## Track listing

**Johannes Brahms**

- *Quintet Op. 115, version for viola and string quartet*
1. Allegro (13:27)
2. Adagio (12:06)
3. Andantino ? Presto non assai, ma con sentimento (4:26)
4. Con moto ? Un poco meno mosso (9:21)

**Frank Bridge**

5. Lament, H 117, version for 2 violas (8:21)

**Robert Mann**

- *Dreamtime for solo viola*
6. Slow Rubato (3:05)
7. Tarantella (Presto) (2:47)

## About this recording

Ondine is proud to present the latest release of violist David Aaron Carpenter, "the hottest violist of the 21st century" (Norman Lebrecht), and "stunningly talented" (The New Yorker).

Dreamtime features the titular solo viola work by Robert Mann (1920), founding member of the Juillard String Quartet and its first violinist for 52 years, as well as Frank Bridge's Lament. Frank Bridge (1879-1941) is one of the most outstanding composers for viola. The longest work on the disc is Brahms's Clarinet Quintet Op. 115 in the version for viola and string quartet.

The starting point for this release was an invitation David Aaron Carpenter received from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra to perform a chamber music concert with some of their soloists. Brahms's Quintet and Bridge's Lament are live recording from this concert in February 2013.

David Aaron Carpenter was featured on the cover of The Strad magazine in August 2013 and, a few months earlier, was the subject of a three-page article in the New York Times. He is thrilled to release this latest recording with members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. "Making music with these incredible musicians," he says, "has been one of the inspiring highlights of my career."

David Aaron Carpenter's first recording, released in 2009 and featuring his own viola arrangement of the Elgar Cello Concerto (after Lionel Tertis) and the Schnittke concerto with Eschenbach was an international success, winning the coveted ‘Editor's Choice' accolade from Gramophone. Further releases on Ondine include Berlioz's Harold in Italy and Paganini's Sonata per la Grand Viola with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra as well as a world premiere recording of the recently rediscovered Viola Concertos of "the Swedish Mozart" Joseph Martin Kraus.

## Press

The playing is both fluent and sensitively shaped.

Geoffrey Norris, Gramophone January 2014

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## Related pages

- [Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/brahms-johannes.md)
- [Frank Bridge (1879-1941)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/bridge-frank.md)
- [Robert Mann (1920-)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/mann-robert.md)
- [David Aaron Carpenter, viola](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/carpenter-david-aaron.md)
- [Bernhard Hartog, violin](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/hartog-bernhard.md)
- [Rüdiger Liebermann, violin](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/liebermann-r-diger.md)
- [Walter Küssner, viola](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/k-ssner-walter.md)
- [Stephan Koncz, cello](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/koncz-stephan.md)

## Also recommended

- [Joseph Martin Kraus: Viola Concertos](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1193-2.md): David Aaron Carpenter, viola · Riitta Pesola, cello · Tapiola Sinfonietta · Janne Nisonen, concert master (ODE 1193-2, 2012)
- [Berlioz · Paganini: Harold in Italy · Sonata per la Gran Viola e Orchestra](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1188-2.md): David Aaron Carpenter, viola · Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra · Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor (ODE 1188-2, 2011)
- [Elgar & Schnittke: Viola Concertos](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1153-2.md): David Aaron Carpenter, viola · Philharmonia Orchestra · Christoph Eschenbach, conductor (ODE 1153-2, 2009)