Shostakovich: Chamber Works Paul Neubauer & Anne-Marie McDermott

• Dmitri Shostakovich ( (1906 - 1975): Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40 (Arr. for Viola & Piano by Anonymous):
• 1 Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40 (Arr. for Viola & Piano by Anonymous): I. Allegro non troppo 13:05
• 2 Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40 (Arr. for Viola & Piano by Anonymous): II. Allegro 03:30
• 3 Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40 (Arr. for Viola & Piano by Anonymous): III. Largo 10:01
• 4 Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40 (Arr. for Viola & Piano by Anonymous): IV. Allegro 04:24
• Impromptu, Op. 33:
• 5 Shostakovich: Impromptu, Op. 33 01:51
• Viola Sonata, Op. 147:
• 6 Shostakovich: Viola Sonata, Op. 147: I. Moderato 10:47
• 7 Shostakovich: Viola Sonata, Op. 147: II. Allegretto 07:07
• 8 Shostakovich: Viola Sonata, Op. 147: III. Adagio 18:22
• Total Runtime 01:09:07

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Wir beginnen mit einem der frühesten Kammerwerke, der Cellosonate, die ursprünglich vom Cellisten Viktor Kubatsky mit dem Komponisten am Klavier uraufgeführt wurde. Kubatsky transkribierte später das Cello-Teil für die Bratsche mit Shostakovichs Genehmigung. Seine Version, zusammen mit nachfolgenden Transkriptionen von Evgeny Strakov und Annette Bartholdy, passte bestimmte Passagen an die Bratsche an. Für diese Aufnahme habe ich mich entschieden, der ursprünglichen Cello-Version so treu wie möglich zu bleiben und einige Passagen um eine Oktave anzuheben, um die Reichweite der Bratsche aufzunehmen. Darauf folgt Shostakovichs Impromptu, ein kurzes, aber faszinierendes Stück, das 2017 entdeckt wurde. Das Album schließt mit Shostakovichs Viola Sonata ab, die als einer der Eckpfeiler des Viola-Repertoires steht. Es ist nicht nur seine endgültige Komposition, sondern auch eine seiner tiefgründigsten. In dieser Arbeit scheint Schostakowitsch einen ergreifenden Abschied zu geben, indem er Zitate aus seinen früheren Stücken einwebt und Beethoven im letzten Satz abends Tribut zollt.

Paul Neubauer, Viola
Anne-Marie McDermott, Klavier

Paul Neubauer
Paul's exceptional musicality and effortless playing have earned him praise as “a master musician” from The New York Times. In 2025, he will release two albums for First Hand Records, each featuring the final works of two great composers: an all-Bartók album, which includes the revised version of the Viola Concerto, and a Shostakovich album, featuring the monumental Viola Sonata.

At age 21, Mr. Neubauer was appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic, a position he held for six years. He has since appeared as a soloist with over 100 orchestras, including the New York, Los Angeles, and Helsinki Philharmonics; the Chicago, National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, and Bournemouth Symphonies; and the Mariinsky, Santa Cecilia, English Chamber, and Beethovenhalle Orchestras. He has also premiered viola concertos by Béla Bartók (including the revised version of the Viola Concerto), Reinhold Glière, Gordon Jacob, Henri Lazarof, Robert Suter, Joel Phillip Friedman, Aaron Jay Kernis, Detlev Müller-Siemens, David Ott, Krzysztof Penderecki, Tobias Picker, and Joan Tower.

In addition to his solo career, Mr. Neubauer performs with SPA, a trio with soprano Susanna Phillips and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, exploring a wide range of repertoire, including salon-style songs. He has been featured on CBS's Sunday Morning, A Prairie Home Companion, and in Strad, Strings, and People magazines. A two-time Grammy nominee, he has recorded for numerous labels, including Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Red Seal, and Sony Classical.

Mr. Neubauer is a frequent performer with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and serves as the artistic director of the Mostly Music series in New Jersey. He is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and Mannes College.

Anne-Marie McDermott
One of the most dazzling American pianists of her generation, Anne-Marie McDermott has played concertos, recitals, and chamber music in hundreds of cities throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. She is one of the most versatile, respected, and best-reviewed pianists of our time. McDermott continues her tenure as music and artistic director of the Bravo! Vail music festival, in Colorado, through 2026, which hosts world-renowned artists and orchestras from around the world. She is also the artistic director of the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival, in Florida; the artistic director of the McKnight Center’s Chamber Music Festival, at Oklahoma State University; and a former curator of the Mainly Mozart Spotlight Series, in San Diego.

Highlights of McDermott’s 2024-25 season include three performances of the Piano Concerto by the 20th-century American composer Amy Cheney Beach with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, with which she makes her subscription debut, and with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (MA); her debut in Galway, Ireland, performing music by Bach, Busoni, and Brahms at a Music for Galway recital; Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the Paducah Symphony Orchestra (KY); Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Des Moines Symphony, Palm Beach Symphony, and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA (WA); performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall in New York City, and on tour in Chicago, Grand Rapids, Kansas City, Ashland (OR), and Vienna (VA); a special chamber music program at the New World Symphony, in Miami Beach, that includes Mozart’s Quintet in E-flat major and Olivier Messiaen’s wartime masterwork Quartet for the End of Time; performances as a member of the SPA Trio—with soprano Susanna Phillips and violist Paul Neubauer—at the Rockefeller University (New York City), and at Arizona Friends of Chamber Music (Tucson); and a chamber music program at the McKnight Center for the Performing Arts, in Stillwater (OK).

McDermott’s 2023-24 season included performances with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, both resulting in immediate re-engagements. She also performed Mozart with the New York Philharmonic at the McKnight Center in Stillwater. Recent international highlights include recitals in France at the famed Piano aux Jacobins, in Toulouse; performances with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra at the Cartagena International Music Festival; and an all-Haydn recital tour of China.

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