Slow but not too easy viola music?

I've been playing viola for more than 2 years, and I have to choose a few solos for my high school orchestra.


I like slow music, but I don't want it to be simple quarter notes or anything easy like that. I can play up to Suzuki volume 4, but I want to do some songs that aren't included in Suzuki.


Any good recommendations?


(By the way, good slow violin music works too. I can always transcribe that.)

Slow but not too easy viola music?
the only things that I can think of would probably be too advanced for you.





you could try the Bruch Romanze, but I'm pretty sure it's too hard.





it's really beautiful, andante, and passionate.
Reply:my father used to play for the RI philharmonic orchestra.He was second violinist only because he started to get arthritus in his hands.when he left them he could barly close his hands.what a sad day now that I think back.He always used to criticize how others would play. he might say something like,if he played a little slower it would sound better.the staccato notes are for people that can't play ,they just make you look that way.He was a stickler and one for practicing.I guess thats where I get it from.If you took a piece that was in quarter notes and added a few sixteenth notes to it and played it at tempo you could change the song , even though its the same one , and people would say,will you look at them play. yet you took a simple song and without changing the song , just modifying a few notes you have just made yourself the best violinist I know.
Reply:It sounds like you've made impressive progress in a relatively short time.





I have written an unaccompanied Elegy in versions for violin, viola, and cello. All have been very well received in concerts. I don't have a recording of the viola version, but you can hear the violin and cello versions here:


www.famesource.com/RCBarrows





You can contact me at RRRRComposer@yahoo.com.





R.C. Barrows


Composer-In-Residence


Culver Chamber Music Series
Reply:I hope you check out that original piece .... it really is fun to do something for the first time or do an debut of a piece in your area ..... done quite a few world and North American debut and it generates excitement (but only if you like the piece)