This serenade has the subtitle "Verwante zielen" (Related Souls), and was composed for (and premiered by) the Dutch sisters Annette and Gisella Bergman, both professional violists. Their recording is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdSozYmUgS0

A complete list of Solare's works for viola (from his website): http://www.juanmariasolare.com/solare-viola.pdf Latest update: 27/01/2015

Found this CD with some interesting viola works by Spanish composer Ramón Paús (1956), performed by the excellent Yuval Gotlibovich. https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.573602 booklet: https://www.chandos.net/chanimages/Booklets/NX3602.pdf

(since mr. Ewald notes he could not find it) - The Monologue is (now) available from EMV verlag: https://www.ebert-musikverlag.de/werkdetail.php?ismn1=0816-5

Relating to my previous input - I found the link to the webshop on the Arranger's (ms. Kobayakawa's) website for the Viola Quartet version: https://www.royal-viola.com/product-page/b-smetana-vltava-from-m%C3%A1-vlast-download-edition

There exists a good arrangement of "Die Moldau" for viola ensemble (4 voices): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLmIxdr8kN4 by Mamiko Kobayakawa  Still trying to get a hold of the sheet music ...

According to Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Schwartz  Elliott Schwartz died on December 7th, 2016

A transcription of the Arpeggione sonata for Viola Quartet has been created by Ross Cohen of the famous "Absolute Zero Viola Quartet" - link: http://www.absolutezeroviola4.com/product/schubert-arpeggione-quartet/

According to this article, https://www.polskieradio.pl/8/4933/Artykul/2333823 Boguslaw Schaeffer died on July 1st, 2019 in Poland (Krakow?)

passed away

According to this news report, Wolfgang Marschner sadly passed away in March 2020. https://slippedisc.com/2020/06/death-of-a-german-violinist-93/

Published!

Harding's "June Sunrise (Idyll)" is available at Corda publishing as CMP 659: http://www.cordamusic.co.uk/viola1.html

Published!

Harding's "Renata da Capo" is available at Comus Editions (#129): https://www.comusedition.com/034_viola_ensembles.htm

3 or 6 sonatas?

The IMSLP now has this sonata bundle, it claims there are 6 sonatas total...? https://imslp.org/wiki/6_Viola_Sonatas,_Op.27_%28Bruni,_Antonio_Bartolomeo%29

2020 erschien die Einspielung des erst wenige Jahre zuvor komponierten Konzerts für Viola und Streichorchester von Pēteris Vasks. Es ist Maxim Rysanov gewidmet, der es 2016 uraufführte: https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail
Seine Einspielung ist hier abrufbar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM247nAzPlE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrgQt3Akmj8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd4NXztbMEI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ApJYgPbNeY
Eine «provosorische» Fassung des viersätzigen Konzerts in einer Bearbeitung für Viola und Klavier gibt es hier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2FJvJCt5bQ

Mozart-Verfilmung 1991

Wenige Jahre nach dem Erscheinen des medienwirksamen Films "Amadeus" von Miloš Forman (1984), der zahlreiche sensationsgeladene Mythen um Mozarts Leben ausschlachtete, wurde ein österreichisch-tschechischer TV-Dreiteiler produziert, der ein anderes Bild zeichnet und viele Perspektiven beleuchtet, die zuvor keine Rolle spielten. Diese Verfilmung ist zu empfehlen:
Teil 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRfldU6zhWk
Teil 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkAzX--Pjww
Teil 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc1wN0hpj3s