Sheet Music for Viola

The viola da gamba has always awakened my listening to this strange concept of the "inside of the sound". Why this instrument and not another one? The bow's peculiar smile? It seemed to me then, and...

Alongside his works devoted to the piano (his "water-divining rod") Henri Sauguet wrote numerous pages for a solo instrument, wether they are concert works for renowned instrumentalists (as his Sonate...

Learning at a very early age the piano and the violin and surrounded by brothers and sisters playing the piano and string instruments, Jean Cras quickly came to compose chamber music. First a piano tr...

The manuscript of Sine nomine mentions as the date of completion: "Paris, 24/2/1987". The circumstances of its birth should have led to a radically different result to what we are listening: it was su...

Concert works for intermediate and advanced players. The volume has been edited by violist John White a pupil of Watson Forbes and founder member of the Alberni String Quartet. One of the most prolifi...

The first time I encountered the score of Romance Oubliée I remember that after just glancing at the score, I was struck by how the voicing, tonality and texture of the piano part seemed to be so well...

Edited from the first edition.

The work of the Brahms friend 'belongs to the late Romantic period, is appealing and substantial and can be recommended to unprejudiced players'. For violists one of the easier pieces.

Edited from the original edition.

Edited from the first edition.

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.

These are lovable, playful genre pieces that serve musical entertainment in the best sense of the word. Highly recommended as an encore.

First Edition

The 'Deux Morceaux' may be counted among the showpieces of tone-painting program music, which should be welcome to all violists thanks to their noble technical and humorous refinement.

With its romantic, at times impetuous tonal color, in which the formal skill of the thematic development is clearly expressed, as well as its technical brilliance, it combines everything a violist cou...

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.

The Elegy, written in the classical-romantic style, hardly fails to make an impact as an encore piece: easy to perform, it is indebted to the viola's tonal register.

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.

First Edition