Viola

SKU: HL.48024561

Composed by Robin Holloway. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover. 18 pages. Duration 1440 seconds. Boosey & Hawkes #M060134159. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL.48024561).

ISBN 9781784543518. 0.078 inches.

This Sonata for Viola (unaccompanied) was written in 1999. The soloists C-string is tuned down a semitone for the entire piece, giving a duskier quality to the tone-colour, and setting up in the very first bar the characteristic melodic/harmonic shape that infiltrates all four movements. I - slowish and thoughtful - gradually expands this opening idea into cantilena and pattern, as prelude to II - Vivacissimo - played muted throughout, a tremolando tarantella, with contrasting section, chunky double-stops, alternating withsomething of a gigue. III - adagio - rhapsodic and quasi-improvisando, enclosing a simple self-contained melody, and linking into IV, where the gigue-like material from the scherzo provides the principal substance, expanding into an ardent cantabile, and calminginto the Coda not just the finale but, in its reminiscences of I, to the sonata as a whole.

Solo Viola

SKU: SU.60000060

For solo Viola. Composed by Robert Bloch. Strings, Viola. Score. Subito Music Corporation #60000060. Published by Subito Music Corporation (SU.60000060).

Solo viola Duration: 3' ' Composed: 1994 Published by: J.B. Elkus Music.

Viola - Level 3

SKU: CA.3913713

Composed by Georg Philipp Telemann. Edited by Brit Reipsch. Die Tageszeiten Neuausgabe Reipsch. Sacred vocal music, Cantatas. Individual part. TVWV 20:39. 20 pages. Duration 55 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 39.137/13. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3913713).

ISBN 9790007216108. Language: German.

The cantata cycle Die Tageszeiten, which was composed in Hamburg in 1757, is one of the outstanding late works of Georg Philipp Telemann. A Symphonie and four cantatas (each of which consists of an aria, accompagnato, aria, and chorus) portray, in a richly sensitive manner, the course of a day, beginning with the awakening of nature to the sunset. The poetry of Friedrich Wilhelm Zachariae and Telemann's music herald the beauty of nature, as well as the greatness of God revealed within it. Colorful instrumentation and pictures in sound corresponding to each time of the day, delicate compositional structure, and an ingenious realization of the text characterize this work, whose musical idiom is at times reminiscent of Haydn. Score and part available separately - see item CA.3913700.