{"product_id":"2374762","title":"Andreas Willwohl - Schubert \u0026 Shostakovich: Viola \u0026 Piano [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of Schubert's legacies with one of his most beautiful compositions is the Arpeggione Sonata. Schubert took a liking to the bowed guitar, at least for one veritable work: the Sonata in A minor, composed in November 1824.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Arpeggione instrument disappeared as quickly as it had arrived. All these attempts around 1800 to expand the family of string instruments had long been forgotten when Franz Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata was published for the first time 43 years after his death in 1871, immediately with alternative solo parts for violin, viola or violoncello.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlmost all violists and cellists have included Schubert's marvellous Arpeggione Sonata in their repertoire - thus keeping alive the memory of the attempt to make the proverbial 'pearl sounds' accessible for string instruments - for an eternity. Shostakovich's viola sonata conveys a special, gradually dissolving sense of time. It is neither at home today, nor yesterday, nor in the future, but in eternity. The composer himself said almost nothing about the work, except that it was 'bright and clear'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe called the first two movements a 'novella' and a 'scherzo'. About the finale, he revealed that it was 'an adagio in memory of Beethoven'. The Viola Sonata is Shostakovich's last work and, beyond personal consternation, it is an exploration of the last things, as many important composers have done; important references for Shostakovich were, for example, Beethoven's Sonata op. 111 or Mahler's Symphony No. 9 and Das Lied von der Erde.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchubert: Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A Minor, D 821 (1824) Version for Viola and Piano I Allegro moderato\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII. Adagio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII. Allegretto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147 (1975) I Moderato\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII. Allegretto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII. Adagio\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54420547109249,"sku":"2374762","price":16.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/0028948663859.jpg?v=1750593147","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/2374762","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}