LIGETI
Chamber Music (Incls trio for violin, horn & piano) Saschko Gawriloff (violin) Marie-Luise Neunecker (horn) Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) / London Winds / Tabea Zimmermann (viola) [ Sony Ligeti Edition Vol 7 / CD - released 16/Feb/2008 ] György Ligeti was one of the most important avant-garde composers in the latter half of the twentieth century. He stood with Boulez, Berio, Stockhausen, and Cage as one of the most innovative and influential among progressive figures of his time. |
GYORGY LIGETI
The Ligeti Project (5 CDs special price) Siegfried Palm (cello) Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) Pierre Laurent Aimard (piano) / Cappella Amsterdam / Amadinda Percussion / Reinbert de Leeuw [ Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 15/Jan/2016 ] "If Ligeti's music has a trademark, it is unpredictability…He remains one of the severest critics of contemporary music, as well as one of its greatest composers" The Guardian |
BRAHMS / SCHUBERT / FRANCK
Sonatas for Viola & Piano Vol. 2 Tabea Zimmermann (viola) & Kirill Gerstein (piano) [ Myrios SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Jan/2013 ] "Zimmermann sticks to his version and makes it work memorably… she mostly eschews any attention-grabbing portamento, and her tone acquires at moments an appropriate reediness… this lovely performance is imbued with that untranslatable Viennese quali |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Jewish Chamber Music Tabea Zimmermann (viola) / Jascha Nemtsov (piano) [ Hanssler / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] Decades before the Yiddish Revival of the 80s (and beyond), the Moscow Society for Jewish Music presented it's first concert in 1929. |
PIAZZOLLA / FALLA / MONTSALVATGE / etc
Cantilena Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Javier Perianes (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 8/May/2020 ] This album invites you to travel from Spain to South America in the company of the greatest composers the countries of the region have produced: next to Spanish folk songs reshaped by Falla, compositions by Casals, Granados, Montsalvatge, and the... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Harold en Italie (Harold In Italy) / Ballet Music from Les Troyens Tabea Zimmermann, viola; London Symphony Orchestra; Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live / CD - released 4/Aug/2003 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1801-1850) - "The feverish opening of the symphony's last movement which alternates the jagged orchestral writing with the more reflective viola. Themes are introduced and dismissed one after the... |
BERLIOZ
Symphonie Fantastique / Harold en Italie (recorded 2001) Tabea Zimmermann (viola) / Orchestre de Paris / Christoph Eschenbach [ Bel Aire Classiques DVD / DVD - released 13/Nov/2006 ] G - Bel Air Classiques has released a DVD of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique and Harold en Italie. The recording took place in the Salle Pleyel in Paris on 14 and 15 February 2001. Christoph Eschenbach conducts the Orchestre de Paris, with Tobea... |
SALLY BEAMISH
The Seafarer Tabea Zimmermann (viola) / Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Ola Rudner [ BIS / CD - released 1/Jan/2008 ] "The BIS recording can only be described as exemplary capturing the music in vivid, transparent colour, whilst Tabea Zimmerman, Ola Rudner and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra are truly worthy exponents of Beamish's strikingly evocative, personal and... |
GLAZUNOV / KODALY / KREISLER / LISZT / WIENIAWSKI / etc
Romance oubliée: Tabea Zimmermann Tabea Zimmermann (viola) & Thomas Hoppe (piano) [ Myrios SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Apr/2015 ] "Zimmermann and Hoppe capture the poetry of these works, in their hands free from sentiment and rich as short stories." (Observer) |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Goldberg Variations Trio Zimmermann [ BIS SACD / CD - released 10/May/2019 ] For close to 300 years Bach's Goldberg Variations have awed performers as well as listeners, through an unparalleled combination of a dazzling variety of expression and breath-taking virtuosity with stupendous polyphonic mastery. No wonder then that... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Divertimento in E flat major, K563 (with Schubert's Piano Trio in B flat major, D471) Trio Zimmermann [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] BIS is delighted to release the debut recording of the star-studded ensemble, Trio Zimmermann, formed by Frank Peter Zimmermann, Antoine Tamestit and Christian Poltéra. Here they perform W.A. Mozart's Divertimento in E flat major which the scholar... |
BEETHOVEN
String Trios, Op. 9 Nos. 1-3 Trio Zimmermann [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] "The playing itself is dazzling, combining expressive warmth and admirable clarity...All in all, this recording is a real treat." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013: Chamber WINNER |
BACH / MOZART / SCHUBERT / BEETHOVEN / SCHOENBERG / HINDEMITH
Trio Zimmermann - A Retrospective Trio Zimmermann [ BIS / 5 CD Box Set - released 6/May/2022 ] In 2007 Frank Peter Zimmermann was able to realize his long-cherished dream to establish a string trio, together with Antoine Tamestit and Christian Poltra. |
PAUL HINDEMITH / ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Trio Zimmermann play Hindemith & Schoenberg Trio Zimmermann [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] "The Trio Zimmermann play them both [the two Hindemith works) with such energy, panache and attention to the minutest detail that they are totally convincing and make a perfect foil to the rigours of the Schoenberg that follows." The Guardian |
Zimmermann, Udo / SO Bayrischer Rundfunk ao.
Zimmermann, Udo - mv 05 ZIMMERMANN Udo, PaxQuestuosa [ Col Legno / CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] |
FRANK MARTIN
Concertos Vol 2 Willi Zimmermann (violin) Rudolf Scheidegger (Cembalo) / Musikkollegium Winterthur / Jac van Steen [ MDG SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] The Collegium Musicum of Winterthur under the conductor Jac van Steen continues its MDG series of recordings of twentieth-century works with a second volume featuring Frank Martin's orchestral works. |
BACH / REGER
Solo - Suites For Viola Tabea Zimmermann (viola) [ Myrios SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Jan/2013 ] "Supported by a wonderfully sonorous recording, her technically irreproachable performances convey a real sense of spontaneity and convincingly encapsulate the distinctive character of each movement, whether lyrical and intense or playful and vibrant |
HINDEMITH
Complete Viola Works Tabea Zimmermann (viola) / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hans Graf [ Myrios SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] "Zimmermann's first volume of a complete survey immediately takes its place among the very best, not least for the warmer, woodier tone that she produces and puts to such musically penetrating use." (Five Stars) Finalist BBC Music Magazine Awards |
PAUL HINDEMITH
Hindemith: Violin Sonatas & Concertos Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) / Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi, with Enrico Pace (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] "this rewarding new release is a reminder of [Hindemith's] continued close affinity with the viola...Virtuosity is not so much the music's aim as expressivity, yet Zimmermann plays with brilliance throughout" |
BRAHMS / CJLARKE / VIEUXTEMPS
Sonatas for Viola & Piano Vol. 1 Tabea Zimmermann (viola) & Kirill Gerstein (piano) [ Myrios / CD - released 14/Jan/2013 ] "Zimmermann and Gerstein allow the music (Brahms) to unfold naturally in a gentle, autumnal account." International Record Review, March 2011 |