Partituras para viola solo

Experience a virtuosic masterpiece of string literature in an extraordinary setting: Johan Halvorsen's famous "Passacaglia" – based on themes by George Frideric Handel – unfolds breathtaking tonal dep...

Helmut Bechtel geboren in Düsseldorf, 2.September 1929 Studium: Rechtswissenschaft (Köln, Bonn, Freiburg) anschliessend Musikwissenschaft und Völkerkunde (Köln) Besuch der Meisterklassen Flöte, Blockf...

Die vorliegende Sonate in F-Dur für Viola alta und Klavier (Wo0 26) ist das zweite Werk Felix Draeseks für ein Instrument, das von Hermann Ritter (1849-1921) entwickelt wurde. Die Viola alta untersche...

F r i e d r i c h W i l h e 1 m R u s t wurde am 6. Juli 1739 in Wörlitz bei Dessau geboren. Trotz der früh zutage getretenen musikalischen Anlagen sollte er Hofbeamter werden und studierte deshalb vo...

Transcription: Jacques Borsarello

It is From the Leaves of Shadow (1991) that gave birth to ...some leaves II... for solo viola. The presence of a 'mother-note' (D) confers on the piece some auditory landmarks, especially as this sort...

The title Les Lettres enlaces (Intertwined Letters) refers to a style of writing based on two melody lines that overlap, pile up, cross over and finally return to a more or less parallel position. The...

The original aim was to compose two chaconnes, or rather a double chaconne, one as a variation of extremely directive discursive material, and the other as a circular development of clearly defined fi...

I did not write Little Italy 'for' the viola, but 'against' it! The main issue here is the creation of dense polyphony for an instrument that is generally treated melodically. The illusion of a double...

cycle: Vies silencieuses - Recording: - 1 CD aeon, AE0754, Vies silencieuses - Ensemble Cairn: Guillaume Bourgogne (conductor)

Transcription for viola and piano by Bruno Monsaingeon and Antoine Joly

A fantastic teaching tool for maturing students who are preparing to work on Bach's Sonatas and Partitas, REFLECTIONS FROM THE EDGE OF THE MILLENNIUM is in seven movements: I. Preludio; II. Siciliano;...

Although Frank Bridge (1879-1941) was a violist, he wrote less for it than for other string instruments. These two pieces bring out the pensive melancholy which is so characteristic of the viola's rep...

This edition of Bach's Six Suite was transcribed for viola by Watson Forbes. He worked with the Bach-Gesellschaft edition and a facsimile of the manuscript copied by Anna Magdalena. The viola part, in...

Georg Phillipp Telemann (1681-1767), among the most prolific composers with 900 or so works, is also notable for having written the first concerto for the viola. Written in four movements rather than...

Esta pieza, terminada en 1920, fue escrita para Henri Casadesus, que la interpretó en el estreno. Se hizo popular en su época y fue interpretada ampliamente por músicos famosos como Milhaud y Hindemit...