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Masterclass: Schubert Arpeggione Sonata on viola, first movement

2024-09-27T08:57:00Z

Yuri Zhislin illustrates the importance of colour and harmony in a work renowned for its lyricism and technicality

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Masterclass: Paul Neubauer on Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata - second and third movements

2023-11-08T09:48:00Z

Violist Paul Neubauer considers the merits of a more Classical interpretation for this often over-romanticised work

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Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata played on arpeggione

2019-05-30T16:04:00Z

Nicolas Deletaille, arpeggione, and Alain Roudier, fortepiano, play Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata. The arpeggione was invented in 1823 by instrument maker Johann Georg Stauffer in Vienna. It is fretted, has six strings and is tuned like a guitar, but played with a bow like a cello or gamba. Although it caught ...

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The Strad Masterclass: violist Maxim Rysanov on Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata

2016-03-24T00:00:00Z

Maxim Rysanov performs Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata, arranged for viola by Dobrinka Tabakova, with DalaSinfoniettan, conducted by Tobias Ringborg at Vinterfest 2011. The violist continues The Strad’s new marked-up sheet music series in association with Henle Verlag with the Arpeggione's first movement – giving bowings, fingerings and ideas for interpretation in ...