Works for Viola and Piano
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Label: Champs Hill Records
Cat No: CHRCD029
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 27th February 2012
Contents
Artists
Krzystof Chorzelski (viola)Katya Apekisheva (piano)
Works
Lachrymae, op.48Marchenbilder, op.113
Viola Sonata, op.147
Artists
Krzystof Chorzelski (viola)Katya Apekisheva (piano)
About
“The third movement feels to me like Schumann’s response to Der Erlkönig and the last movement is one of his most touching ‘songs without words’” says Krzysztof.
Britten’s Lachrymae, subtitled ‘Reflections on a Song of John Dowland’, were written almost 100 years later and recall the most famous of Dowland’s instrumental solos, the Lachrymae Pavan or Flow my tears. But the lute song on which Britten principally bases his six reflections is a love-lorn lament, the melancholy song 'If my complaints could passions move'. Inspiration to write for viola had come from Britten’s meeting with the virtuoso William Primrose, who gave the premiere performance in Aldeburgh in June 1950.
Shostakovich’s Sonata was composed from April to July 1975 (he died in August of that year) and dedicated to Fyodor Druzhinin, a long-time friend of Shostakovich and violist in the Beethoven Quartet since 1966. The musical texture of this work is spare and austere, and although it’s misleading to think of it as a deliberate gesture of farewell, there is the sense of pain and valediction as well as defiance and a sardonic humour that run through all his late works. The three movement work opens with what Shostakovich characterised as a ‘novella’, followed by a grotesque scherzo and finishing with an adagio which quotes Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ sonata. In 2006 musicologist Ivan Sokolov revealed an extraordinary discovery: that Shostakovich had woven a tissue of tiny quotations from all 15 of his symphonies, in order, into the viola and piano parts.
“Recording this work has been a very moving experience for Katya and myself. There’s a fragility to this music which requires a lot of courage from the performers.”
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