Rosalind Ventris’s debut solo album features a selection of music for unacccompanied viola composed between 1930 (Imogen Holst’s impressive Suite for Viola) and the present day (a 2020 lockdown miniature by Thea Musgrave).

The largely British and Irish programme allows Ventris to revive substantial works by important yet still often overlooked twentieth-century composers – not only Holst but also Lillian Fuchs, Elizabeth Maconchy, Elisabeth Lutyens and Grażyna Bacewicz – alongside more recent additions to the repertoire from Musgrave, Sally Beamish and Amanda Feery.

With several of the composers themselves professional string players, this is, in Ventris’s words, ‘wonderful music – that just happens to be by women composers’.

Felix Mendelssohn Piano Sextet

Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio

Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Quartet

Coleridge-Taylor: Nonet, Piano Trio and Piano Quintet.

Richard Blackford's Kalon for String Quartet and String Orchestra is performed by the Albion Quartet and the Czech Philharmonic. 

Songs by Robert Hugill.

This album includes Rory Boyle's trio for clarinet, viola and piano. 

Trio Anima's debut album.

The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective's debut album for Chandos Records. Music by Amy Beach, Florence Price and Samuel Barber. 

Gustav Holst's rarely performed work is heard for the first time in its new chamber arrangement by Dr. Joseph Fort.