Amadeus

The melodic invention may be distantly modeled on Schumann's 'fairy tale pictures', but it captivates with sweeping rhapsodic elements characteristically found in the Romance.

The Elegy, written in the classical-romantic style, hardly fails to make an impact as an encore piece: easy to perform, it is indebted to the viola's tonal register.

First Edition

Edited from the first edition

Edited from the First Edition.

Edited from the First Edition.

First Edition

One of the newly discovered treasures of the Berlin Sing-Academy is the viola sonata in F major by Franz Benda, published here for the first time.

Edited from the first Edition.

Inspired by the treasure of 'European love songs', the composer created a chamber-musical enchanting finely chiseled miniature, embedded in 'contemporary sounds'.

Onslow's viola sonatas deserve to be brought back into the repertoire. Technically not overly difficult, their Biedermeier melos exudes melodiousness and esprit.

Each of the 3 viola sonatas are among the pieces from which contemporaries expected a 'profoundly exciting alternation of pain and joy, of sadness and cheerfulness'.

Onslow's 3 viola sonatas are always distinguished. They want to entertain in the most amiable way, offer dialogues on a high compositional level.

First complete edition of the prints of Tobias Hume in tablature with transcriptions into normal notation. These are solo works for viola da gamba ('lyra-viol') and ensemble pieces for variable instru...

The beautiful-sounding concerto with its clear formal structure and the energetic ductus of the viola part, which also makes only modest technical demands, leaves no doubt on stylistic grounds about t...