SKU: HL.49046045

ISBN 9790001165242. UPC: 841886031623. 9x12 inches.

In the summer of 1852, Vier Stücke ['Four Pieces'] for viola and piano by Robert Schumann were published under the title Märchenbilder ['Fairy-Tale Pictures'] by the Kassel publishing house Luckhardt, with a particularly expressive vignette on the titlepage. Unusual were both this title Märchenbilder, on the one hand, and the scoring with a solo viola, on the other. With the viola in a soloistic role in chamber music, Schumann's Märchenbilder, Op. 113, offers a rather unfamiliar, but all the more delightful sound.

SKU: HL.49017518

9.25x12.25x0.131 inches.

SKU: HL.49013975

ISBN 9790220101830. 9.0x12.0x0.15 inches.

SKU: PR.114412490

ISBN 9781491113011. UPC: 680160018048. 8.5 x 11 inches.

SONATA for Viola and Piano was written for Patricia McCarty and premiered by her and the composer in 1987. All three movements are unified by a recurring six-note pattern (C-E(-B(-F-G-B() used throughout as a basis for the repetitive harmonic plan of the Chaconne, as a nostalgic reminiscence in the Interlude, and as a thematic element for a mixed-meter hoedown in the Rondo.
Martin Amlin's SONATA for Viola and Piano was written for Patricia McCarty and premiered by her and the composer in 1987.  All three movements are unified by a recurring six-note pattern (C-Eb-Bb-F-G-Bb) which is used throughout the piece as a basis for the repetitive harmonic plan of the Chaconne, as a nostalgic reminiscence in the Interlude, and as a thematic element for a mixed-meter hoedown in the Rondo.

SKU: BR.EB-6316

World premiere: Lucerne, August 13, 1961

ISBN 9790004166482. 9 x 12 inches.

World premiere: Lucerne, August 13, 1961.

SKU: BA.BA11068

ISBN 9790006561988. 35.5 x 25 cm inches.

“... she stood leering hideously, and much dust sodden with tears lay upon her shoulders.”

“These snippets from Johann Heinrich Voss's translation of Hesiod's Shield of Hercules, where the din of battle is brought to a standstill for the wink of an eye, made me think of music that describes the 'inwardness' of a particular feeling, close to the much-cited metaphor of an entire life flitting past the inner eye in the space of a second, when, as in Hesiod, Atropos severs the thread of life. Viola and piano join forces on an equal basis to inscribe ever more lines and shapes which, however, relate in their inmost essence to intertwining circles laden with melancholy.”
(Philipp Maintz)

SKU: HL.49012276

ISBN 9790001102476. 9.0x12.0x0.131 inches.