Label: CAvi
Format: CD
Barcode: 0028948663859
Catalog number: AVI 4866385
Releasedate: 12-07-24
Format: CD
Barcode: 0028948663859
Releasedate: 12-07-24
- Both works are a legacy. Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata is the only document that such an instrument existed, no longer exists today and has been replaced by a viola or cello.Shostakovich's Viola Sonata is his last work; he died a few days later. A legacy of his thoughts and musical explorations, one of his most famous works. Andreas Willwohl travels as a soloist with his viola, but is also a member of the highly acclaimed Mandelring Quartet. Daniel Heide is certainly very famous as a partner to various singers, but also as a chamber musician.
LEGACY
One of Schubert's legacies with one of his most beautiful compositions is the Arpeggione Sonata. Schubert took a liking to the bowed guitar, at least for one veritable work: the Sonata in A minor, composed in November 1824. .....
The Arpeggione instrument disappeared as quickly as it had arrived. All these attempts around 1800 to expand the family of string instruments had long been forgotten when Franz Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata was published for the first time 43 years after his death in 1871, immediately with alternative solo parts for violin, viola or violoncello.
Almost all violists and cellists have included Schubert's marvellous Arpeggione Sonata in their repertoire - thus keeping alive the memory of the attempt to make the proverbial 'pearl sounds' accessible for string instruments - for an eternity.Shostakovich's viola sonata conveys a special, gradually dissolving sense of time. It is neither at home today, nor yesterday, nor in the future, but in eternity. The composer himself said almost nothing about the work, except that it was "bright and clear".
He called the first two movements a "novella" and a "scherzo". About the finale, he revealed that it was "an adagio in memory of Beethoven". The Viola Sonata is Shostakovich's last work and, beyond personal consternation, it is an exploration of the last things, as many important composers have done; important references for Shostakovich were, for example, Beethoven's Sonata op. 111 or Mahler's Symphony No. 9 and Das Lied von der Erde.
© 2024 Steffen Georgi
One of Schubert's legacies with one of his most beautiful compositions is the Arpeggione Sonata. Schubert took a liking to the bowed guitar, at least for one veritable work: the Sonata in A minor, composed in November 1824. .....
The Arpeggione instrument disappeared as quickly as it had arrived. All these attempts around 1800 to expand the family of string instruments had long been forgotten when Franz Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata was published for the first time 43 years after his death in 1871, immediately with alternative solo parts for violin, viola or violoncello.
Almost all violists and cellists have included Schubert's marvellous Arpeggione Sonata in their repertoire - thus keeping alive the memory of the attempt to make the proverbial 'pearl sounds' accessible for string instruments - for an eternity.Shostakovich's viola sonata conveys a special, gradually dissolving sense of time. It is neither at home today, nor yesterday, nor in the future, but in eternity. The composer himself said almost nothing about the work, except that it was "bright and clear".
He called the first two movements a "novella" and a "scherzo". About the finale, he revealed that it was "an adagio in memory of Beethoven". The Viola Sonata is Shostakovich's last work and, beyond personal consternation, it is an exploration of the last things, as many important composers have done; important references for Shostakovich were, for example, Beethoven's Sonata op. 111 or Mahler's Symphony No. 9 and Das Lied von der Erde.
© 2024 Steffen Georgi
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1Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A Minor, D 821 (1824) Version for Viola and PianoI Allegro moderato11:27
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2Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A Minor, D 821 (1824) Version for Viola and PianoII Adagio04:06
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3Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A Minor, D 821 (1824) Version for Viola and PianoIII Allegretto09:16
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4Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147 (1975)I Moderato09:34
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5Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147 (1975)II Allegretto07:15
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6Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147 (1975)III Adagio15:25