Dances of Light

Music for Viola and Folk Instrument Quartet

Works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Glasunov, Mussorgsky and Borodin

Tatjana Masurenko (Viola)
Yaruss Quartett

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White Nights – Viola Music from Saint Petersburg

Works for viola and piano by Prokofieff, Rubinstein, Shostakowich, Stravinsky, Glinka, Glasunov and Tchaikovsky

Tatjana Masurenko (viola)
Roglit Ishay (piano)

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… Banshchikov’s [viola] sonata has never had the benefit of such a memorable performance.

… nearly three hours of beautiful music and exceptional music-making by two very special artists.

This performance [of Shostakovich’s Viola Sonata, op. 147] by Tatjana Masurenko and Roglit Ishay cuts deep into the music in a way I don’t believe I’ve heard it played before. It’s like an X-ray that penetrates the surface and exposes, not skeleton and bone, but being and soul. This easily goes to the top of the charts for a performance of Shostakovich’s valedictory address.

Glinka’s sonata [Viola Sonata in D Minor] is a gorgeous piece and it’s gorgeously played by Tatjana Masurenko.

Together, Tatjana Masurenko and Roglit Ishay make a dream team duo. Rarely, have I remained engaged and engrossed, let alone conscious, listening, uninterrupted, to three hours of music composed or performed by anyone […]. But this program of works for viola and piano—even the ones not originally for viola and piano, which most of them are not—is so engaging, so engrossing, and so enticingly played by Masurenko and Ishay that even after listening straight through to all three discs of it, I found myself going back to listen again to some of its numbers, so alluringly and arrestingly beautiful that they are. [… ].

Strongest recommendation possible.

Jerry Dubins
Fanfare – Music Magazine

Just a motion on the air

Works for viola and piano by Ernst Krenek and Robert Schumann

Tatjana Masurenko (viola)
Jens Elvekjær, Gilad Katznelson (piano)

Coviello CLASSICS, COV 91619

White Nights Vol. 2

Viola Music from Saint Petersburg

with works by Sergej Prokofiew, Gennady Banschikow and Dmitri Schostakowitsch

Tatjana Masurenko (viola)
Roglit Ishay (piano)

Hänssler PH11070

“An enterprising disc in a series celebrating Russian viola music” The STRAD August 2014

White Nights Vol. 1

Viola Music from Saint Petersburg

with works by Dmitri Schostakowitsch, Michail Glinka, Alexander Glasunow, Igor Strawinski, Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow und Pjotr Tschaikowski

Tatjana Masurenko (viola)
Roglit Ishay (piano)

Hänssler PH10029

Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Concerto for Viola, Piano, and Orchestra

Tatjana Masurenko (viola)
Frank-Immo Zichner (piano)

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Marek Janowski (conductor)

Capriccio 71 112 (SACD; Delta Music)

Awards

Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik
Bestenliste 2-2007, Rubrik Orchestermusik und Konzerte
15.05.2007

Supersonic Award
Pizzicato, April 2007
Classics in Luxembourg

Diapason découverte
Diapason, Mai 2007

British Viola Concertos

William Walton (1902-1983)
Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1962 version, revised 2002)

Sally Beamish (*1956)
Concerto No.1 for Viola and Orchestra (1995, revised 1998)

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Lachrymae – Reflections on a song by Dowland (Version from 1976 for Viola and String Orchestra)

Tatjana Masurenko (viola)
NDR Radiophilharmonie
Garry Walker (conductor)

Recordings on 18th – 22nd April 2005
Großer Sendesaal, 
NDR Landesfunkhaus Hannover

Viola Lumina

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Suite II in D-Minor BWV 1008

Igor Strawinsky (1882-1971)
Élégie (1944)

Henri Vieutemps (1820-1881)
Capriccio pour alto seule op. 61

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Sonate for Viola solo op. 31/4 (1923)

PORTRÄT Tatjana Masurenko

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Sonate Es-Dur für Klavier und Viola op. 120 Nr. 2

George Enescu (1881-1955)
Concertstück pour alto avec accompagnement de piano

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Lachrymae – Reflections on a song og Dowland – für Viola und Klavier op. 48

Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Quatre Visages pour alto et piano

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Sonate op. 25 Nr. 1 (for Viola Solo)

Tatjana Masurenko (viola)

Nina Kogan (piano)