Label: Bridge
Format: CD
Barcode: 0090404944222
Catalog number: BRIDG 9442
Releasedate: 24-04-15
Format: CD
Barcode: 0090404944222
Releasedate: 24-04-15
- viola transcriptions of Brahms’s great sonatas for violin and for cello
- world premiere recording of Andrea Clearfield’s “Convergence”, a sparkling new composition written for the duo.
- world premiere recording of Andrea Clearfield’s “Convergence”, a sparkling new composition written for the duo.
On this recording viola virtuoso Barbara Westphal and pianist Christian Ruvolo perform viola transcriptions of Brahms’s great sonatas for violin and for cello. In addition, Westphal and Ruvolo give the world premiere recording of Andrea Clearfield’s “Con- vergence”, a sparkling new composition written for the duo. Ms. Clearfield composes for forces small and large, including 10 canta- tas, one of them written for the Philadelphia Orchestra. She is cur- rently writing an opera on the life of the Tibetan yogi, Milarepa.