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The voice of the viola in Times of oppression

by Ásdís valdimarsdóttir, viola - Marcel Worms, piano

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Mieczysław Weinberg: Sonata for viola and piano op. 28: I Allegro 05:44
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Mieczysław Weinberg: Sonata for viola and piano op. 28: II Allegretto 07:06
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Mieczysław Weinberg: Sonata for viola and piano op. 28: III Adagio 06:55
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Dick Kattenburg: Sonata for viola and piano: Allegro moderato 09:31
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Max Vredenburg: Lamento 06:34
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for viola and piano op. 147: I Moderato 08:41
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for viola and piano op. 147: II Allegretto 07:53
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Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for viola and piano op. 147: III Adagio 12:09
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about

If a composer wants to express his feelings with maximum intensity
and depth, he chooses the viola remarkably often. The loss of a
loved one, a repressive political system, persecution and war were
more than once the motivation for composing music with the viola
as the most important voice On this CD, compositions for viola
and piano in which oppression, both personal and political, has
played, directly or indirectly, an unmistakable role. The Polish-
Russian, Jewish composer Mieczysław Weinberg fled for the Nazi
invasion. Dick Kattenburg was picked up in 1944 during a razzia
and he died, only 24 years old, in Auschwitz. Max Vredenburg,
being a Jewish artist, fled from the Nazis in 1941 to Indonesia but
was there interned in a camp. Shostakovich’s Sonata for viola and
piano was his last composition. Notwithstanding that the pressures
of the Soviet regime on the composer did not lead to his banishment
or even his liquidation, the last stages of Shostakovich’s life were
far from uncomplicated.

credits

released February 9, 2021

Recorded at the Zeeuwse Concertzaal, Middelburg,
February 17 and 18, March 16 2018
Mixed and edited by Concertstudio (NL)
Mastering: Walter Calbo
Musical director: Jakko van der Heijden
Viola: Giovanni Pistucci, Napoli ca 1930
Piano: Steinway D
Pianotechnique: Joost van Hartevelt, De Hamernoot, Middelburg
Liner notes: Marcel Worms
Translation: Elizabeth Gaskill
Photography: Mick Stirling
Layout: Meeuw
Special thanks: Maroeska Metz

www.marcelworms.com
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