Viola Concerto by Jorg Widmann Orchestra - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: S9.Q790553

For me, the viola has always been first and foremost an extraordinary vocal instrument. For me as a musician, playing chamber music with the viola is one of the most beautiful things in the world. Stories can be told on the viola's C string alone that would be unthinkable on any other string instrument. The main setting in my Viola Concerto is a utopian land: an alien-feeling sphere at the beginning, populated exclusively by viola pizzicati in all possible and impossible variations; then as a yearning song from an imaginary oriental fairyland; finally a plunge into artistically absurd cascades of virtuosity that introduce the work's centrepiece, an aria for viola and extremely muted strings; a painfully intimate farewell to a sunken world. Jörg Widmann

4 (alle auch Picc., 3. auch Altfl., 4. auch Bassfl.) · 0 · 4 (3. auch Bassklar., 4. auch Kb.-Klar.) · 4 (4. auch Kfg.) - 4 · 3 · 3 · 1 - P. S. (I: Xyl. · Vibr. · 3 Beck. [h., m., t.] · gr. Tr. · Flex. · Rainmaker; II: Glsp. · Crot. · Marimba · Röhrengl. · Peking-Oper-Gong · Metal Chimes · Flex.; III: Glsp. · Crot. · Trgl. · 3 Beck. [h., m., t.] · Wassergong · Tamt [t.] · Wasser-Tamt. · 2 Bong. · 4 Tomt.) (3 Spieler) - 2 Hfe. · Cel. · Klav. - Str. (4 · 0 · 3 · 3 · 8 [5.-8. 5-saitig]).