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VIOLA AND ORCHESTRA

Bartok, Bela: Concerto for viola and orchestra op.posth
Bruch, Max: Romanze for Viola and orchestra op 85
Glorvigen, Per Arne: Double Concerto for viola, bandoneon and orchestra (2022)
Händel/Cassadeus
 concerto for viola and orchestra in B minor
Hoffmeister, Franz Anton: Concerto in d major for viola and orchestra
Higdon, Jennifer: Viola Concerto
Hummel, Johan Nepomuk: Fantasie for viola and orchestra
Kleiberg, Ståle: Viola Concerto
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra K. 364
Paganini, Nicollo: La Campanella (transcripted for viola and orchestra in e minor by Nils Thore Røsth)
Sinding, Christian: Suite in a minor for violin and Orchestra op 10 (arranged for viola and orchestra in d minor by Nils Thore Røsth)
Stamitz, Karl: Concerto for viola and orchestra op 1 in D major
Strauss, Richard: Don Quixote (viola solo)
Walton, William: Concerto for viola and orchestra
Weber, Carl Maria: Andante e Rondo Ungarese for viola and orchestra
Williams, Ralph Vaughan: Suite for viola and small orchestra
Eugène Ysaÿe: Caprice d’après l’Etude en forme de Valse de C. Saint-Saëns. (arranged and transcripted for viola and orchestra by Nils Thore Røsth)

VIOLA AND STRINGS

Bach, Johan Sebastian: Brandenburg Concerto no. 6 in B flat major
Britten, Benjamin
: Lachrymae for viola and strings op 48
Dinicu, Grigoras: Hora staccato for viola and strings (arranged by Nils Thore Røsth)
Faure, Gabriel: Apres un Reve for viola and strings (arranged by Eivind Ringstad)
Hindemith, Paul: Trauermusik for viola and strings
Paganini, Nicollo: La Campanella for viola and strings (arranged by Nils Thore Røsth)
Piazzola, Astor: Le grand tango for viola, bandoneon and strings
Schubert, Franz: Litany for all souls day (arranged for viola and strings)
Sinding, Christian: Suite in d-minor op 10 for viola and strings (arranged by Nils Thore Røsth)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr: Andante Cantabile for viola and strings (arranged by Nikolai Klavier)
Telemann, Georg Phillip: Viola Concerto in G major
Telemann, Georg Phillip: Double Concerto in G major for two violas
Weber, Carls Maria: Andante e Rondo Ungarese (arranged for viola and strings by Nils Thore Røsth)

Solo VIOLA

Bach, Johan Sebastian: Cello suite no 1 in G major (arranged for viola)
Bach, Johan Sebastian: Cello suite no 2 in D-minor (arranged for viola)
Bach, Johan Sebastian: Cello suite no 3 in C major (arranged for viola)
Bach, Johan Sebastian: Solo sonata for violin no 1 in G-minor BWV 1001 (transcripted for viola)
Bach, Johan Sebastian: Chaconne from partita in D minor (arranged for viola)
Blake, Howard: Prelude for solo viola
Britten, Benjamin: Elegy for solo viola
Brustad, Bjarne: Eventyrsuite (transcribed for viola)
Hindemith, Paul: solo sonata op 25 no 1 for solo viola
Kvandal, Johan: Elegie og Capriccio
Ligeti, Gyorgy: Solo sonata
Nordheim, Arne: Fracture for solo viola (2001)
Paganini, Nicollo: Various caprices from 24 caprices for solo violin op 1 (transcripted for viola)
Penderecki, Krystof: Kadenza for viola
Eugène Ysaÿe: Solo sonata no 3 opus 27 Ballade (transcripted for viola)
Reger, Max: Three suites for solo viola op 131d
Vieuxtemps, Henry: Capriccio for solo viola in c minor op. Posth

VIOLA AND PIANO

Benjamin, Arthur: Sonata for viola and piano 
Beethoven, Ludvig van
: Notturno for viola and piano op 42 (arranged for viola and piano)
Bloch, Ernest: Suite Hebraique for viola and piano (1. mov Rapsodie)
Brahms, Johannes: Sonate op 120 no 1 in f minor
Brahms, Johannes: Sonate op 120 no 2 in e flat major
Brahms, Johannes: Sonatesatz from FAE sonata (arranged for viola and piano)
Britten, Benjamin: Lachrymae for viola and piano op 48
Bull, Ole: Polacca Guerriera (arranged for viola and piano)
Clarke, Rebecca: Sonata for viola and piano
Enescu, Georges: Concertstück for viola and piano
Franck, Cesar: Sonata for violin and piano in A major (arranged for viola)
Hindemith, Paul: Sonata for viola and piano op 11 no 4
Prokofiev, Sergej: «Romeo and Juliet» suite for viola and piano (arr: V. Borisowski)
Schostakovich, Dmitri: Four pieces from the film music “The Gadfly” (arr. V. Borisowski)
Schostakovich, Dmitri: Sonata for viola and piano op 147
Schubert Franz: «Arpeggione sonata» in a minor D 821 for viola and piano
Schumann, Clara: Three Romances opus 22 for violin and piano (arranged for viola
Schumann, Robert: «Märchenbilder» op 113 for viola and piano
Schumann, Robert: «Adagio and Allegro» op 70 (arranged for viola and piano)
Schumann, Robert: «Fantasiestücke» op 73 (arranged for viola and piano)
Schumann, Robert: Three Romances op 94 (arranged for viola and piano)
Sinding, Christian: Suite in d-minor op 10 for viola and piano (arranged by Nils Thore Røsth)
Eugène Ysaÿe: Caprice d’après l’Etude en forme de Valse de C. Saint-Saëns. (for viola and piano – arranged by Nils Thore Røsth)
Williams, Ralph Vaughan: Suite for viola and piano

SHORT PIECES FOR VIOLA AND PIANO

Bartok, Bela: Rumanian Folk dances (arranged for viola and piano)
Bazzini, Antonion: Scherzo fantastique “Rondo des Lutins” op 20 (arranged for viola and piano)
Bull, Ole: “La Melancholie” (arranged for viola and piano by E. Ringstad)
Dinicu, Grigoras: Hora Staccato (arranged for viola and piano by J. Heifetz/W. Primrose)
Dvorak, Antonion: Slavonic dance nr 2 opus 72 (arranged for viola and piano by Eivind Ringstad)
Elgar, Edvard: La Capriciouse (transcripted for viola and piano by Nils Thore Røsth)
Faure, Gabriel: Apres un Reve (transcripted for viola and piano)
Grieg, Edvard: The First Meeting, Op. 53 No. 2 (arranged for viola and piano by E. Ringstad)
Grieg, Edvard: Solveigs Song, Op. 23 No. 1 (arranged for viola and piano by E. Ringstad)
Halvorsen, Johan: Norwegian dance No. 1 (arranged for viola and piano by E. Ringstad
Hindemith, Paul: Meditation for viola and piano
Korsakov, Rimskij: Flight of the Bumblebee (arranged for viola and piano by E. Ringstad
Mendelssohn, Felix: Songs without words op 19 no 1 (arranged for viola and piano)
Paganini, Nicollo: Caprice no 9,15,18 and 21 (arranged for viola and piano by E. Ringstad)
Paganini, Nicollo: Moto Perpetuo (arranged for viola and piano by John Vieland)
Paganini, Nicollo: Andante Cantabile (transcripted by N. Thore Røsth)
Paganini, Nicollo: La Campanella (arranged by W. Primrose for viola and piano)
Paradis, Maria Theresia von: Sicilienne
Saint-Saëns, Camille: The Swan (arranged for viola and piano)
Sarasate, Pablo: From Spanish dances op 21, nr 1. Malaguena (transcripted for viola and piano by N. Thore Røsth)
Sarasate, Pablo: From Spanish dances op. 22, nr 1 Romanza Andaluza (transcripted for viola and piano by N. Thore Røsth)
Schubert, Franz: Litany for all souls day (arranged for viola and piano by W. Primrose)
Schubert, Franz: Ave Maria (arranged for viola and piano
Schumann, Robert: Intermezzo from FAE sonata
Sibelius, Jean: Rondo for viola and piano in d-minor
Svendsen, Johan: Romance (arranged for viola and piano)
Vieuxtemps, Henry: Elegie for viola and piano op 30
Rachmaninov, Sergej: Vocalise for viola and piano
Ravel, Maurice: Piece en forme de Habanera (arranged for viola and piano)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr: Valse Sentimentale (transcripted for viola and piano)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr: Andante Cantabile (arranged for viola and piano by Nikolai Klavier)

Commisions

Grolid, Michael: Piece for solo viola (2012)
Asheim, Nils Henrik: “Miranda alene” for solo viola (2014)
Barratt-Due, Peder: “Ildfluer” for two violas (2017)
Barratt-Due, Peder: “Correspondances” for viola and piano (2018)
Ødegaard, Martin: “Grains” for solo viola (2021)
Glorvigen, Per Arne: Double Concerto for viola, bandoneon and orchestra (2022)

 

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