Klassik Noten für Bratsche

This tour de force consists of two movements that are complete opposites. Movement I; titled Momentum; starts with the viola and piano aggressively  sharing a single note. Things start swirling out of...

Juxtaposing soulful cantabile with capricious rhapsody, BREAKING BREAD culminates in a quotation from the African American spiritual Let Us Break Bread Together, the only clue to the meaning behind th...

Amlin's affinity for the warm, rich voice of the viola mixes with his mysterious, beautiful modernism in this 2-minute change- of-pace gem featured on Michelle LaCourse's “An American Menagerie” CD. I...

Originally composed for solo cello, this work has been adapted by the composer in response to requests from violists. The melodic theme comes from the final chorus of Hailstork’s Earthrise, a profound...

YangKo, an important form of mass folk-dance that originated in northern China, has recently become popular throughout the entire country. In YangKo, the performers not only dance, but they play rhyth...

Commissioned by violist Brett Deubner, Somers compiled a set of three songs to be used as short program fillers for an upcoming recital of Deubner's. 'Song' is from a previously composed set of art so...

The solo viola repertoire has been enriched by this plaintive memorial work, originally for solo violin - the instrument in which composer Chen Yi was trained as a performer. The composer provides thi...

Glinkas Sonate d-Moll gehört zu den wenigen originalen Werken aus der frühromantischen Zeit für Viola. Hier liegt sie als Urtextausgabe vor. Sie ist in drei Autographen erhalten und enthält zwei Sätze...

August Halm (1869-1929) war Musiker und Musikpädagoge zugleich. Er studierte zunächst Theologie, später Musik bei Joseph Rheinberger. Als der bedeutendste Musiklehrer der musikalischen Jugendbewegung...

Nachdem die Familie Schumann 1850 nach Düsseldorf gezogen war, nahm das kompositorische Schaffen von Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896) einen neuen Aufschwung. Die Romanzen op. 22 für Violine und Klavier en...

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