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Nobuko Imai is a Japanese classical violist with an extensive career as soloist and chamber musician. She has been a recipient of numerous awards including the Avon Arts Award (1993), Japan's Suntory...

The Op. 42 Notturno for Viola and Piano is an arrangement of the 1796-97 Serenade in D, Op. 8, arranged by F. X. Kleinheinz (with Beethoven's approval) for Viola and Piano. The piece is comprised of s...

First Edition

First Edition.

The Sonata of 1789 was composed as a compulsory piece for a viola audition of the Royal Chapel in Madrid. Even today it can serve this task brilliantly.

Flackton's sonatas are among the earliest original works for the viola. Their moderate difficulty level allows them to be performed as opening pieces in concerts.

Thanks to the compositional layout with easily executable pure string instrumentation, this is a work that offers all amateur orchestras the ideal opportunity to 'adorn' themselves with brilliantly pe...

A minstrel entering a merry company displays what he has brought back from foreign lands: songs serious and gay, and finally a dance piece. Like a true musician, he expands and embellishes the melodie...

Mendelssohn's viola sonata is one of his many early works which remained unpublished in his lifetime. The autograph is dated 'd. 14 Febr. 1824'. Thus Mendelssohn was 15 years old when he completed the...

Hummels 'Potpourri' for Viola and Orchestra op. 94 is part of every viola player's core re­pertoire, especially in its shortened version, the 'Fantasy'. Sprinkled with quotes from operas by Mozart and...

In the present cadenzas for the three most frequently played viola concertos of the classical era, the author, in addition to a stylistic orientation, tried above all to shape these improvisations in...