Willwohl

Violist Andreas Willwohl and pianist Daniel Heide announce the upcoming release of their new album for our partner label CAvi music featuring two major string instrument sonatas. Schubert’s Sonata in A minor was originally composed for the bowed guitar ‘Arpeggione’, to which Schubert took a liking, but the sonata has become so well-loved among string players and their audiences that it is widely performed in different transcriptions, here for viola and piano. Shostakovich’s Viola Sonata conveys a special, gradually dissolving sense of time. The composer himself said almost nothing about the work, except that it was “bright and clear”!

Julia Fischer (violin), Jonathan Crow (violin), Douglas McNabney (viola), Matt Haimovitz (cello), Lenneke Ruiten (soprano), Martin Helmchen (piano), Arabella Steinbacher (violin), Keisuke Wakao (oboe), Malcolm Lowe (violin), Cathy Basrak (viola), Sato Knudsen (cello), Ana de la Vega (flute), Andrew Marriner (clarinet), Gustavo Núñez (bassoon), Ulf-Dieter Schaaff (flute), Philipp Beckert (violin), Andreas Willwohl (viola), Georg Boge (cello), Kevin Short (bass), Gordan Nikolić (violin). Marco Boni, Yakov Kreizberg, Ed Spanjaard, Simon Murphy, Gordan Nikolić, Bastiaan Blomhert, Stephanie Gonley, Neville Marriner, Henk Rubingh, Lawrence Foster