White Nights - Viola Music from Saint Petersburg

Shostakovich, Dmitry;
Rubinstein, Anton;
Prokofiev, Sergey;
Glinka, Mikhail;
Stravinsky, Igor;
Glazunov, Alexander;
Tchaikovsky, Piotr

Masurenko, Tatjana;
Ishay, Roglit

PH 20045

Hommage to the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, an epicentre of music and culture for centuries.

“I grew up in that wonderful city; I studied there and my family lives there. As a musician who is always on the lookout for interesting new discoveries, I wanted to record these works for viola. You will find some familiar pieces in my selection, works that have long been in the standard repertoire for violists the world over, alongside new, unexpected arrangements.”

“Unlike in the first two recordings of this series, in the latest one I am no longer playing on my old viola by Testore (Milan, 1756), but on a new instrument by the violin-maker Jürgen Manthey (Leipzig, 2020), whom I have known for 25 years and whose work I rate very highly. My playing technique has changed recently. Nowadays I play repertoire of the nineteenth century with more emphasis on the historical accent. For this reason, on this recording I am using gut strings and a bow made by the most famous nineteenth-century bow-maker, Nikolai Kittel from St. Petersburg (1856). The grand piano we used on this recording is also a historic instrument: a Blüthner of 1905 from Leipzig.”

- Tatjana Masurenko

CD x 3

Muzyka klasyczna

Profil Medien

11-01-2022

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