Partitions pour alto

For Viola and Piano

Melia Watras; a foremost performing violist and professor of viola; has commissioned a good number of composers for new works for her instrument. In her commission of Ran; she requested that a startin...

This tour de force consists of two movements that are complete opposites. Movement I; titled Momentum; starts with the viola and piano aggressively  sharing a single note. Things start swirling out of...

Juxtaposing soulful cantabile with capricious rhapsody, BREAKING BREAD culminates in a quotation from the African American spiritual Let Us Break Bread Together, the only clue to the meaning behind th...

Amlin's affinity for the warm, rich voice of the viola mixes with his mysterious, beautiful modernism in this 2-minute change- of-pace gem featured on Michelle LaCourse's “An American Menagerie” CD. I...

Originally composed for solo cello, this work has been adapted by the composer in response to requests from violists. The melodic theme comes from the final chorus of Hailstork’s Earthrise, a profound...

YangKo, an important form of mass folk-dance that originated in northern China, has recently become popular throughout the entire country. In YangKo, the performers not only dance, but they play rhyth...

Commissioned by violist Brett Deubner, Somers compiled a set of three songs to be used as short program fillers for an upcoming recital of Deubner's. 'Song' is from a previously composed set of art so...

The solo viola repertoire has been enriched by this plaintive memorial work, originally for solo violin - the instrument in which composer Chen Yi was trained as a performer. The composer provides thi...

La Catedral (1921), gehört zu den berühmtesten Werken von Barrios Mangoré, ein dreiteiliges Stimmungsbild aus dem Innenraum einer südamerikanischen Barockkathedrale. Julia Florida, Barcarola (1938), i...

Glinka's Sonata in D minor is one of the few original works for viola from the early Romantic period, here available now as a Urtext edition. It is preserved in three autograph manuscripts and consist...

2 Spielpartituren.

Ein ernstes Stück voll tiefer Empfindung! Die Bevorzugung der dunkleren Klangfarben der Viola gibt ihm einen besonderen Reiz.

August Halm (1869 - 1929), remarquable musicien et pédagogue, étudia d'abord la théologie à Tubingen et ensuite la musique avec Joseph Rheinberger. Il fut le pédagogue de musique le plus important du...

Après le déménagement de la famille Schumann en 1850 à Düsseldorf, la créativité musicale de Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896) connut un nouvel essor. Les Romances op. 22 pour alto et piano, écrites en 185...

Following the Three Romances, Op. 22 (RL 41020) by Clara Schumann, this book constitutes a further volume in the series of arrangements for viola by the ?Kalinowskys. This husband-and-wife musical duo...