Veit Hertenstein - Works for Two Violas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Viola Virtuosa aims to demonstrate that the viola can, in addition to producing all the deep, sad notes and songful qualities attributed to it, also be an independent solo instrument. The instrument's position, between the violin and the cello, offers us violists many opportunities to combine elements from both soundscapes and thereby to create something independent and new. This features a number of transcriptions - not derived from a desire to take something from someone else, but because I am absolutely convinced that good music can be played in a variety of ways as long as we remain true to the spirit in which the work was originally composed. Works by both Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe and Gaspar Cassadó appear on this album, played for the first time on the viola. Ysaÿe has long fascinated me, and after featuring this work in a number of my concerts, it seemed perfectly natural to record his 4th Sonata. It was my former student Martin Moriarty who suggested the possibility of playing Cassadó on the viola, when he turned up for a lesson one day with the score of this cello suite. I was enthusiastic from the word go because the suite sounds so good on the viola and I hope that the enthusiasm we felt during the recording session is palpable. Thank you, Martin, for this great idea! (Veit Hertenstein) Album Tracks 1. Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, for keyboard in D minor, BWV 903~Fantasia Cromatica 2. 3 Suiten für Viola solo Op. 131d~Suite I in g-moll. Molto sostenuto 3. 3 Suiten für Viola solo Op. 131d~Suite I in g-moll. Vivace 4. 3 Suiten für Viola solo Op. 131d~Suite I in g-moll. Andante sostenuto 5. 3 Suiten für Viola solo Op. 131d~Suite I in g-moll. Molto vivace 6. 3 Suiten für Viola solo Op. 131d~Suite II in D-Dur. Con moto 7. 3 Suiten für Viola solo Op. 131d~Suite II in D-Dur. Andante 8. 3 Suiten für Viola solo Op. 131d~Suite II in D-Dur. Allegrett

Austin's creepiest bad boys are back! After a few years of wandering in the wilderness, Drakulas return to their spiritual home at Dirtnap Records (and Wild Honey Records in Europe/UK!) to unleash Midnight City upon the world! Drakulas move in the shadows of a neoned, late '70s city-proto punk bite, garage grit, '80s synth ghosts and new wave chill wrapped in world-building, nocturnal lyrics. Conceived as an art experiment by Savage Lord Mic, Sam Francisco (Riverboat Gamblers) and Pink Rick (Rise Against), and filled out with a rotating cast of sketchy characters, Drakulas quickly shed their daylight skins-black turtlenecks, medallions, VHS flicker-and became emissaries of a cinematic underworld where drugs, arcade lights, pornography and occult whispers score the streets. Their 3rd LP, Midnight City turns up the musical quirk factor a bit, with fully-realized, inter-connected songs that are at the same time unsettling and yet weirdly danceable. Marvel as they emerge from the fog with a new full length on Dirtnap/Wild Honey-listen if you dare. Album Tracks 1. 1. Going Going Gone Gone 2. 2. Singin' with My Tongue Cut Out 3. 3. Head in the Clouds 4. 4. Is It Enough 5. 5. White Off Your Nose 6. 6. Garbage Strike 7. 7. S*x 8. 8. Morning Night 9. 9. Guys Like Me, Girls Like You 10. 10. Fafo 11. 11. Learn the Curve 12. 12. Wheelhouse

Somewhere between the first and second decade of the InchshortInch 20th century, the great Viennese musical tradition of Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, and Mahler supposedly crashed into the limits of tonality and came to a halt. Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg composed anew, now according to what was supposed to be the Inchhistorically inevitableInch system of atonality. Karl Weigl went on to write marvelously traditional music. Schoenberg wrote in 1938 that InchI always considered Dr. Weigl one of the best composers of the old school; one of those who continued the glittering Viennese tradition.Inch And that is what we hear in abundance in Weigl's output throughout the genres His symphonies, his songs, his concertos, his string quartets, and the chamber works for piano, cello, and violin in various combinations. Album Tracks 1. Sonate FÜR Violine Und Klavier NR. 2 G-Dur = Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in G Major 2. Zwei Stücke FÜR Violoncello Und Klavier Op. 33 = Two Pieces for Cello and Piano Op. 33 3. Zwei Stücke FÜR Violine Und Klavier = Two Pieces for Violin and Piano 4. Trio FÜR Violine, Violoncello Und Klavier D-Moll = Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano in D minor