Bernhard Päuler

Edited from the first edition.

The movements, still largely in the classical-early Romantic style, captivate with multifaceted viola-specific layered playing. Easy to moderately difficult.

Praised throughout his life as a master of polyphonic compositional technique, the chamber music of Friedrich Kiel, who was held in high esteem by Brahms, features a romantic, powerful linear formal c...

The melodic invention may be distantly modeled on Schumann's 'fairy tale pictures', but it captivates with sweeping rhapsodic elements characteristically found in the Romance.

A brilliant performance piece, which offers violists the opportunity to show off the entire tonal spectrum of their instrument. Early Romantic flair pervades all the movements.

Edited from the first edition

Edited from the first Edition.

Onslow's viola sonatas deserve to be brought back into the repertoire. Technically not overly difficult, their Biedermeier melos exudes melodiousness and esprit.

Each of the 3 viola sonatas are among the pieces from which contemporaries expected a 'profoundly exciting alternation of pain and joy, of sadness and cheerfulness'.

Onslow's 3 viola sonatas are always distinguished. They want to entertain in the most amiable way, offer dialogues on a high compositional level.

The beautiful-sounding concerto with its clear formal structure and the energetic ductus of the viola part, which also makes only modest technical demands, leaves no doubt on stylistic grounds about t...

Edited from the original edition. 1: G major; 2: e minor; 3: D major; 4: d minor; 5: A-flat majorr; 6: F major

Reprint of First Edition, 1966, Deutscher Verlag für Musik

The F minor Elegy with its rushing conclusion is a duty of every violist. It is worthwhile to work on it. Rarely has it been written so brilliantly, ravishingly and gratefully for the viola.