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1.
Sonoran Storm for Solo Viola - Nokuthula Ngwenyama 10:05
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2.
Morpheus - Rebecca Clarke 07:51
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3.
Sonata for Viola & Piano l. Allegro - Byron Adams 06:38
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4.
Sonata for Viola & Piano II. Allegretto grazioso, ma un poco malinconico - Byron Adams 04:25
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Sonata for Viola & Piano III Adagio molto e mesto - Byron Adams 08:23
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Sonata for Viola & Piano IV Allegro risoluto - Byron Adams 05:49
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Romance Oubliée - Franz Liszt 04:30
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Music is filled with depictions of external and internal tempest.

A thunderstorm in Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony interrupts peasant revelry found in its Scherzo during a Graecian scene of centaurs depicted in Disney’s Fantasia. Stokowski conducted that performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra on the first stereo soundtrack in commercial film.

Stormy times. They find their way into the first act of Wagner’s Die Walküre, in Eine Alpensinfonie of Richard Strauss, and in Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes. They line song in every language and adorn rainmaking pleas in drought. Cloudbursts and snow, evoked by voices, share conjured meanings of nature and beyond.

Cross-temporal storm musings are presented here. Sonoran Storm for solo viola by Nokuthula Ngwenyama unites the descriptive and symbolic. Byron Adams’s Sonata for viola and piano explores emotional turbulence. Morpheus, Rebecca Clarke’s tone poem for viola and piano, hints at arising lassitude in the wake of extremis, while Franz Liszt meditates on quiet - even rueful - gusts of half-forgotten love in Romance Oubliée: the only piece he composed for viola and piano.

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released October 12, 2018

Chief Engineer: David Nichols
Recording Engineer: Ben Taylor
Assistant Engineer: Victor Appiah-Kubi
Recording Supervisor: Dian Baker
Mastering: Warren Sokol
Notes: Byron Adams and Nokuthula Ngwenyama
Photography: Scott Bain
Painting: Nancy Pfau

Recorded at 513 Analog (Track 1) and Katzin Concert Hall (Tracks 2-7)
Track 1 published by Thulamusic: www.thulamusic.com
Tracks 3-6 published by Editions Bim: www.editions-bims.com
Edited at Scottsdale Music Company
Mastered at United Mastering

Produced by Nokuthula Ngwenyama

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‘Mother of Peace’ and ‘Lion' in Zulu, Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s performances as orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber musician garner great attention. Gramaphone proclaims her as providing “solidly shaped music of bold, mesmerising character.” Uptown Magazine featured her "A Poet of Sound." ... more

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