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Schubert's "Arpeggione" Sonata has been given top billing for some reason, but it's not the only offering, or even the main one, in this alluring duo recital disc by cellist Gautier Capuçon and ...
Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and pianist Alexandre Tharaud perform a program including Franz Schubert’s Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 10, in the Olin Arts ...
The case of Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata is somewhat different: it has been the province of viola players and cellists since the arpeggione (a cross between guitar and cello) became obsolete a ...
Wieder-Atherton then brings to Schubert’s ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata an appealing elegance, totally free from the hectoring quality into which the the music’s high register so often forces lesser performers.
They begin with the A Minor Sonata that Schubert wrote in 1824 for the newly invented arpeggione, an instrument that went out of fashion before it had time to make further headway. These days ...
Next was a solo for viola and piano, Schubert’s “Arpeggione” sonata in A minor. This piece technically ought to be performed on an “arpeggione” — a six-string guitar–cello crossover ...
In 1824, Schubert wrote a sonata for the arpeggione, a newly invented instrument -- a kind of guitar played with a bow. The instrument never caught on. In fact, Schubert's sonata was published ...
Pianist Lars Vogt, violinist Christian Tetzlaff and cellist Tanja Tetzlaff capture Schubert's violent extremes ... the so-called Arpeggione sonata, composed for a six-stringed bowed instrument ...
Phelps will be playing the Arpeggione Sonata by 19th-century Austrian composer Franz Schubert alongside the orchestra. It’s one of Schubert’s most well-known compositions. The piece was ...