The Romantic Viola II Daniel Weissmann & Peter Petrov

• Charles Tournemire (1870 - 1939): Suite en trois parties, Op. 11:
• 1 Suite en trois parties, Op. 11: I. Allegro ben moderato 05:58
• 2 Suite en trois parties, Op. 11: II. Largo 05:48
• 3 Suite en trois parties, Op. 11: III. Allegro 06:30
• Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899):
• 4 Pièce pour violoncelle ou alto et piano, Op. 39: Tranquille mais sans lenteur, plus animé, lent 06:48
• Louis Vierne (1870 - 1937): Deux pièces pour alto, Op. 5:
• 5 Deux pièces pour alto, Op. 5: I. Le soir 03:30
• 6 Deux pièces pour alto, Op. 5: II. Légende 01:51
• Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869): Harold en Italie, H 68:
• 7 Harold en Italie, H 68: I. Adagio - Allegro ( (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Hugh Macdonald) 14:35
• 8 Harold en Italie, H 68: II. Allegretto (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Hugh Macdonald) 07:24
• 9 Harold en Italie, H 68: III. Allegro Assai - Allegretto (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Hugh Macdonald) 06:27
• 10 Harold en Italie, H 68: IV. Allegro frenetico - Adagio - Tempo con fuoco (Arr. for Viola and Piano by Hugh Macdonald) 12:18
• Total Runtime 01:11:09

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The French Romantic Viola from Berlioz to Tournemire: The Voice of Emancipation

Daniel Weissmann, Managing Director of the Liège Royal Philharmonic, is alsoa violist. Following an initial album released by Fuga Libera (2018) and chiefly devoted to German music, he continues his exploration of the chamber repertory for viola with this new album, here in partnership with the pianist Peter Petrov. The programme explores the French Romantic repertory, in a worldpremiere recording of the British musicologist Hugh Macdonald’s remarkable and formidably difficult arrangement for viola and piano of Berlioz’s Harold en Italie. The album is completed by ‘fin-de-siècle’ pieces by Vierne, Chausson and Tournemire (all three students of César Franck), written between 1894 and 1897, which embrace the full expressive and melancholic potential of the instrument.

Daniel Weissmann, viola
Peter Petrov, piano

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