Paul Juon: Chamber Music for Viola
Paul Juon was born in Moscow, of Swiss parents, in 1872, studying there with Arensky and Taneyev; Rachmaninov, a fellow student at the Moscow Conservatoire, dubbed him ‘the Russian Brahms’. Woldemar Bargiel, Clara Schumann’s half-brother, was his main teacher at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin before Juon himself became a member of the staff. There are indeed echoes of Brahms in Juon’s early music but there is also a fondness for Russian folksong and a mastery of counterpoint, which all feed into his urgent, late-Romantic lyricism.
Basil Vendryes, viola
Igor Pikayzen, violin (Tracks 8–18)
William David, piano
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- I Moderato Audio Player
- II Adagio assai e molto cantabile Audio Player
- III Allegro moderato
- Moderato assai – Audio Player
- Adagio – Audio Player
- Tempo primo Audio Player
- Romanze, Op. 7b, for Viola and Piano, Op. 7b
- No. 1 Prélude Audio Player
- No. 2 Chant d’amour Audio Player
- No. 3a Intermezzo 1 Audio Player
- No. 3b Intermezzo 2 Audio Player
- No. 3c Intermezzo 3 Audio Player
- No. 4 Mélancholie Audio Player
- No. 5 Danse grotesque
- No. 1 Rêverie: Molto adagio Audio Player
- No. 2 Humoreske: Allegro ma non troppo Audio Player
- No. 3 Elegie: Andante cantabile Audio Player
- No. 4 Danse fantastique: Quasi valse lente
Sonata for Viola and Piano in D major, Op. 15 (publ. 1901)
Audio PlayerSonata for Viola and Piano in F minor, Op. 82a (publ. 1924)
Audio PlayerRomanze for Viola and Piano, Op. 7b (1898)
Silhouettes, 2ème série, Op. 43, for violin, viola and piano (publ. 1909)*
Audio PlayerTrio-Miniaturen for violin, viola and piano (publ. 1920)
Audio Player* FIRST RECORDING OF THIS VERSIOn
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