Viola Transcriptions

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BEETHOVEN / WAGNER / BORODIN / PAGANINI
Viola Transcriptions
Roberto Diaz (Viola) / Robert Koenig (Piano)

[ Naxos / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 11 July 2006

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Primrose made transcriptions for his own use to fill some vacancies (charmeurs he called them) in the viola repertoire of his day, and to display his prodigious technique. Unlike string colleagues he greatly admired, Fritz Kreisler and Jascha Heifetz, Primrose did not play the piano well.

Tracks:

5 Lieder, Op. 105: No. 1. Wie Melodien zieht es mir (arr. W. Primrose)
6 Romances, Op. 6: No. 6. None but the Lonely Heart (arr. W. Primrose)
Bachianas brasileiras No. 5: I. Aria: Cantilena (arr. W. Primrose)
Huella, Op. 49 (arr. W. Primrose)
L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1: III. Adagietto (arr. W. Primrose)
Litanei auf das Fest aller Seelen, D. 343 (arr. W. Primrose)
Notturno in D major, Op. 42
Prelude No. 15, "Ao pe da fogueira" (arr. W. Primrose)
Sarasateana (version for viola and piano)
String Quartet No. 2 in D major: III. Nocturne (arr. W. Primrose)
Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 7: III. Rondo, "La campanella" (arr. W. Primrose)
Wesendonk Lieder: No. 5. Traume (arr. W. Primrose)