Alliage (Alloy) II (2008) for Viola and Classical Accordion. Player's score. Programme note: The two instuments of this duo are very different in appearance and in the way of playing as well as toneproduction. At first glance this might call for a music which brings out these differences in the nature ofthe instruments distributing distinct even contrasting musical roles to the two players such as melodyversus accompaniment. But I refrain from this obvious ‘casting’ of the instruments since I have alwaysbeen fascinated by the less evident by transitions and gradual displacement by the intangibleplacesbetween one and the other. I search for this ‘terrain vague’ of fruitfull incertainty and permanent genesis.To arrive here I have in this piece written a music which makes hidden relations and unexplored sonorous paths come forward between the sound worlds of the two instruments. Bringing together the musical substances I look for something deeper than just common sounds: a fresh musical place. And the lively and bright sound world that emerges form this instrumental and textural ’in-between’ I associate toalloys in particular the silvery amalgamations of mercury. The work was commisioned by Andreas Borregaard and composed with support from The Danish Arts Foundation. It is dedicated to the duo Inviolata. Niels Rosing-Schow

Romances - Six short pieces for Viola and Piano by Poul Ruders. Programme note According to tradition a mid- or late-19th century instrumental Romance - or Romanza - is a shortish composition of predominantly melodic nature with a slight leaning toward the sentimental.In several European languages such as German French and Danish the word for navel i.e. an unfolding drama in writing is Roman and although there's nothing literary about my Six Romances for viola and piano each piece tells its own story open to individual inner interpretation. Portal forms the opening chapter so to speak pavingthe way for the second movement named Even Song. Maybe it's just a simple tune heard at sunset perhaps the melody is carried from far away over the hills from inside the village church...Titles such as Ballad and Dirge (song of mourning) immediately reveal the nature and mood of the music to come where-as the concluding piece Duet is slightly more 'mysterious.'In a classic duet the two instruments in question or more likely voices complement each other benevolently. In the present case however the viola and the piano both stand firm protection their own turf - and - 'the twain shall never meet!'The piece is very short indeed it just stops leaving the listener to finish the 'story' in his or her own imagination. A true open ending. (Poul Ruders)

Anders Koppel's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra. Commissioned by South Jutland Symphony Orchestra. First performed February 10th 2011.  

Flow (2012) by Sunleif Rasmussen - for 1 Recorder (Alto Tenor and Soprano) Violin Viola and Violoncello. The placement of the musicians: The recorder player is placed in the middle of the stage in all three movements. The cello is placed behind the audience in all three movements. In 1st and 3rd movement the violin is placed on the recorders right side and theviola on the recorders left. At the and of the 1st movement the violin and the viola are walking slowly in respective sides in the middle of the hall and stay there during 2nd movement. Before the 3rd movement they walk back to their position in the 1st movement.

Tarkiainen writes: The Lustful Mother???s Heart is a solo work that plumbs the depths of one of the most fundamental human instincts ??? the tie between a mother and her new-born child that as day follows day becomes less part of its mother???s body. The work develops themes from my song cycle The Lustful Mother in which long solo viola passages strike to the very heart of down-to-earth natural womanhood. The Lustful Mother???s Heart was born at a very special moment in my life when my second child was spending his first weeks in this world. The viola song kept company with us night and day dark and deep-rooted at times broadening out into a hymn weaving into our fate asthrough a dream. The Lustful Mother???s Heart is dedicated to violist Ellen Nisbeth who also commissioned it.

Automaten is the full Operatic score by Danish composer and pianist Niels Viggo Bentzon. Libretto by Michael Leinert. Instr: S A T B Alto Saxophone Tenor Saxophone Flute Violin Viola Piano

Sonata Concertante Op. 90 (2010) - for Flute Violin Harp Viola Cello and Contrabass. Commissioned by the Musiikkia! Ruovesi Festival.Dedicated to Anna and Okko.    

Quartet was composed by Jørgen Jersild in 1934 for Violin Viola Clarinet and Bassoon. Jørgen Jersild was a Danish music educator and composer. Jersild worked as a professor of ear training at The Royal Danish Academy Of Music in Copenhagen.

Quartet was composed by Jørgen Jersild in 1934 for Violin Viola Clarinet and Bassoon. Jørgen Jersild was a Danish music educator and composer. Jersild worked as a professor of ear training at The Royal Danish Academy Of Music in Copenhagen.

Sinfonia Concertante for Violin Viola Clarinet and Bassoon was composed by Anders Koppel in 2007.