A must for any violist preparing to hit the audition trail! This innovative CD contains written and spoken commentary and performance on the following excerpts: Mozart-Symphony #35 (1st mvt); Beethoven-Symphony #3 (Scherzo), Symphony #5 (2nd mvt&Scherzo); Rossini-La Gazza Ladra Overture; Mendelssohn-Midsummer Night's Dream (Scherzo); Berioz-Roman Carnival Overture; Wagner-Tannhauser Overture; Smetana-The Bartered Bride Overture; Brahms-Variations on a Theme by Haydn (variations 5,7,8), Symphony #2 (all mvts); Bruckner-Symphony #4 (2nd mvt); Strauss-Don Juan, Don Quixote, Ein Heldenleben; Tchaikovsky- Symphony #6 (1st mvt); Mahler-Symphony #10; Ravel-Daphnis & Chloe Suite #2; Shostakovich-Symphony #5 (1st mvt); Prokofiev-Classical Symphony (1st mvt & 4th mvt). Solo passages included are: Strauss-Don Quixote; Enesco-Romanian Rhapsody #1; Ravel-Mother Goose; Kodaly-Hary Janos; Ginastera-Concert Variations. Yizhak Schotten was formerly violist in the Boston Symphony, principal viola with the Cincinnati and Houston Symphonies, and is now a Professor of Viola at the University of Michigan. |
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