Shostakovich's Viola Sonata is his last work and reflects his emotional despair and struggle to come to terms with 'last things,' referencing works by Beethoven and Mahler.
Composition History
Schubert's Sonata in A Minor was composed in November 1824 for the arpeggione, a newly invented six-string bowed instrument.
Composition History
Shostakovich's Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147, is his only work for viola and his last composition, completed shortly before his death in 1975.
Performer Biography
Daniel Heide, the pianist on this recording, is a sought-after vocal accompanist and chamber musician, and the founder and artistic director of the vocal recital series 'Der lyrische Salon' at Ettersburg Castle.
Performer Biography
Andreas Willwohl, the violist on this recording, is a professor at Nuremberg University of Music and a member of the Mandelring Quartet since 2015.
Composer Biography
Shostakovich announced his Viola Sonata to violist Fyodor Druzhinin, a member of the Moscow-based Beethoven Quartet, for whom Shostakovich had written many string quartets.
Instruments
The arpeggione, for which Schubert wrote his sonata, was a six-string bowed instrument invented in 1823 by Viennese instrument maker Johann Georg Staufer.
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