“Viola Viola” features the dynamic talent Hsin-Yun Huang, who feels that she as a musician has a responsibility not only to highlight past masterworks, but to continue to grow the canon of literature for the particular instrument.  Consequently, this album features familiar modern composers like Poul Ruders, who wrote a series of Romances expressly for this CD as well as Steven Mackey, whose work became familiar when she was part of the Borromeo Quartet.  The seven movements of “Ground Swell” included here describe a hike up and down an Italian mountain, complete with many of the local color sounds.  The viola is not necessarily the obvious star in Chamber Music, according to Ms. Huang, but it occupies a very necessary space. Lovers of contemporary music will find much to enjoy in works like the eponymous “Viola Viola,” by George Benjamin, in duet with Huang’s husband Misha Amory.  Is it a conversation?  An argument?  A debate?  The very special “Figment IV,” by Elliott Carter, is included as is Shih-Hui Chen’s “Remembrance,” a piece I love for its fusion of elements and feelings. Sometimes the viola adopts a shamisen-sound, or tonkori-sound, and the weaving of the flute and other instruments around that line evoke a stranger in a strange land emotion.  The return to bowing is like finding your way to a familiar place again.