Andreas Willwohl & Daniel Heide - Schubert & Shostakovich: Viola & Piano (2024) [Hi-Res]

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”!