SCHUBERT Arpeggione Sonata (I) - Cristina Cordero, Viola

Sonate a-Moll D 821 "Arpeggione" - Franz SCHUBERT
I.Allegro moderato

Cristina Cordero (Viola)
Nino Gurevich (Klavier)
Hochschule für Musik und Theater München - Großer Saal
08/02/2019 - München - Deutschland
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Arpeggione (noun): "A six-stringed musical instrument of the nineteenth century, fretted and tuned like a guitar but bowed like a cello"

The Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano was written by Franz Schubert in Vienna in November 1824. This is the only substantial composition for the arpeggione, which remains extant today. It is written on a smaller scale, with three movements: a sonata form allegro moderato, a heartfelt, singing adagio and an allegretto rondo movement whose interludes are bursting with variety and energy.

Today, the piece is heard almost exclusively in transcriptions for cello and piano or viola and piano that were arranged after the posthumous publication, although versions that substitute other instruments—including double bass, flute, euphonium and clarinet for the arpeggione, or guitar or harp for the piano part—are also performed. Transcribers have attempted to address the problems posed by the smaller playing range of these alternative instruments, in comparison with the arpeggione, as well as the attendant modifications in articulation (4 versus 6 strings).

The first movement, in A minor, is imbued throughout with a touching blend of sadness and joy (as was Schubert’s own life), the beauty, sensitivity and lyricism of its first theme contrasting with the carefree nonchalance of the second, a shattering outburst of pain at the climax of the development section leading through the recapitulation to the last breaths of the instruments and culminating in the death sentence of the two closing chords.
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