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
Listen To This Recording:
- I Moderato
- II Adagio assai e molto cantabile
- III Allegro moderato
- Moderato assai –
- Adagio –
- Tempo primo
- Romanze, Op. 7b, for Viola and Piano, Op. 7b
- No. 1 Prélude
- No. 2 Chant d’amour
- No. 3a Intermezzo 1
- No. 3b Intermezzo 2
- No. 3c Intermezzo 3
- No. 4 Mélancholie
- No. 5 Danse grotesque
- No. 1 Rêverie: Molto adagio
- No. 2 Humoreske: Allegro ma non troppo
- No. 3 Elegie: Andante cantabile
- No. 4 Danse fantastique: Quasi valse lente
Sonata for Viola and Piano in D major, Op. 15 (publ. 1901)
Sonata for Viola and Piano in F minor, Op. 82a (publ. 1924)
Romanze for Viola and Piano, Op. 7b (1898)
Silhouettes, 2ème série, Op. 43, for violin, viola and piano (publ. 1909)*
Trio-Miniaturen for violin, viola and piano (publ. 1920)
* FIRST RECORDING OF THIS VERSIOn
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