Jan Müller-Wieland's 'Himmelfahrt' for Viola Solo was specifically composed for and dedicated to Elisabeth Kufferath, the performer on this album.
Compositional Technique
György Kurtág, another composer on this album, often gives his pieces titles that provide important hints about their content, sometimes conjuring fantasy worlds.
Performer Biography
Elisabeth Kufferath plays both violin and viola, enjoying the expanded potential for colors and different roles offered by having both instruments.
Performer Biography
Elisabeth Kufferath, the performer on this album, is a founding member of the Tetzlaff String Quartet, which has performed in major venues like Carnegie Hall.
Composition History
Jan Müller-Wieland's 'Libero, fragile' for Violin Solo is the cadenza from his violin concerto 'Ballad of Ariel', and relates to a Polish Yiddish lullaby.
Composition History
Elliott Carter's 'Mnemosyné' for Violin was composed in memory of his wife, with whom he had been married for sixty years.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Luciano Berio, a composer featured on this album, pushes the sonic and technical boundaries of each instrument to their outermost extremes in his 'Sequenzas'.
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