Ondine proudly presents a release featuring violist David Aaron Carpenter, ‘the hottest violist of the 21st century’ according to Norman Lebrecht, and ‘stunningly talented’ by The New Yorker, and member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Dreamtime features the titular solo viola work by Robert Mann (1920). Frank Bridge (1879–1941) is one of the most outstanding composers for viola. The longest work on the disc is Brahms's Clarinet Quintet Op. 114 in the version for viola and string quartet.
The starting point for this release was an invitation David Aaron Carpenter received from the Berlin Phil to perform a chamber music con-cert with some of their soloists. The quintet and Lament are live recordings from this concert in February 2013.
Carpenter appeared on the front cover of the Strad in August and a few months earlier was the subject of a three-page article in the New York Times.