British Viola Concertos on CD

[Dundonnell]

BRITISH VIOLA CONCERTOS

RECORDED

Sir John Blackwood McEwen(1868-1948):     Viola Concerto(1900)    (Hyperion)

Cecil Forsyth(1870-1941):            Viola Concerto(1903)   (Hyperion)

York Bowen(1884-1961):              Viola Concerto(1905-07)   (Hyperion)

Gordon Jacob(1895-1984):            Viola Concerto No.1(1925/76)  (Dutton)
                                                             Viola Concerto No.2(1979)  (Dutton)

Edmund Rubbra(1901-86):              Viola Concerto(1952)  (Conifer and Hyperion)

Sir William Walton(1902-83)            Viola Concerto(1927)   *

Benjamin Frankel(1906-73):            Viola Concerto(1967)    (CPO)

Stanley Bate(1911-59):                     Viola Concerto(1944-46)  (Dutton)

Sir Malcolm Arnold(1921-2006):      Concerto for Viola and chamber orchestra(1971)   (Carlton BBC Radio Classics and Decca)

Arthur Butterworth(1923-):              Viola Concerto(1988-92)   (Dutton)

John McCabe(1939-):                      Concerto funebre for Viola and chamber orchestra  (1962)  (Dutton)

Paul Patterson(1947-):                   Concerto for Viola and strings(2009)      (Dutton)

Michael Berkeley(1948-):               Viola Concerto(1994-96)    (Chandos)

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UNRECORDED:

David Wynne(1900-83):                           Fantasia Concerto for Viola(1961)
                                                                       Rhapsody Concerto No.2 for Viola(1964)

Christian Darnton(1905-81):            Concerto for Viola and strings(1933-35)

Peter Racine Fricker(1920-90):        Viola Concerto(1952-53)    **

Wilfred Josephs(1927-97):               Concerto for Viola and small orchestra     (1983)

Thomas Wilson(1927-2001):           Viola Concerto(1987)

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett(1936-):   Concerto for Viola and chamber orchestra     (1973)

Howard Blake(1938-):                       Viola Concerto(2012)

Robin Holloway(1943-):                    Viola Concerto(1983-84)

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and

Robert Still(1910-71):               Viola Concerto(unfinished)

[Jim]

Arthur Butterworth: Viola Concerto (88-92) Dutton
Simon Bainbridge: Viola Concerto (1976) NMC Ancora
Mark-Anthony Turnage: On Opened Ground - Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (2000–2001) LPO label

[David Carter]

Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988): Viola Concerto (1952)

[Dundonnell]

Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988): Viola Concerto (1952)

I excluded the Leighton because it is essentially a double concerto for Viola and Harp. The two players are referred to, explicitly, as "the soloists".