Shostakovich - Viola Sonata / Schnittke - Viola Concerto
Despatch Information
This despatch estimate is based on information from both our own stock and the UK supplier's stock.
If ordering multiple items, we will aim to send everything together so the longest despatch estimate will apply to the complete order.
If you would rather receive certain items more quickly, please place them on a separate order.
If any unexpected delays occur, we will keep you informed of progress via email and not allow other items on the order to be held up.
If you would prefer to receive everything together regardless of any delay, please let us know via email.
Pre-orders will be despatched as close as possible to the release date.
Label: Naive
Cat No: AMB168
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 29th September 2008
Contents
Artists
Antoine Tamestit (viola)Markus Hadulla (piano)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Dmitrij KitajenkoWorks
Viola ConcertoViolin Sonata, op.147
Artists
Antoine Tamestit (viola)Markus Hadulla (piano)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Dmitrij KitajenkoAbout
Alfred Schnittke wrote his Viola Concerto in 1985, the year that Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union, ended the Cold War and allowed Russians once again to enjoy the excitement of travel. The work was commissioned by the Russian violist Yuri Bashmet who gave the first performance a year later at the Royal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Ten years earlier, in 1975, Dmitri Shostakovich knew he was dying when he wrote the Viola Sonata Op.147 and that it would be his last work. Sadly, Shostakovich did not live to hear his swansong in concert, but the dedicatee Fyodor Druzhinin performed it informally at Shostakovich’s house on what would have been the composer’s 69th birthday, 26 September.
Antoine Tamestit himself became enamoured of the rich, low tone of the viola as a ten-year-old. He found that the open C string, the same C with which both Schnittke’s Concerto and Shostakovich’s Sonata end, resonated warmly through his entire body and that with the end-button resting against his throat, he could feel the vibrations of the instrument as an extra voice.
Born in Paris to a schoolteacher mother and a composer father, Antoine Tamestit studied the viola with Jean Sulem at the Paris Conservatoire, in the United States with Jesse Levine and the Tokyo Quartet, and in Germany with the great Tabea Zimmermann. First prizes in the major viola competitions in Paris, New York and Munich (where he astounded the judges by playing the Schnittke Concerto from memory) demonstrated his brilliance, since when he’s been a soloist with many leading orchestras.
This product has now been deleted. Information is for reference only.
Error on this page? Let us know here
Need more information on this product? Click here