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This recording allows French violist Geneviève Strosser to fully display her talents in a programme of singular works that she has nurtured for several years and has particularly appropriated to her qualities as an artist: warm sonorities, heightened sensitivity, great expressiveness… Many of the pieces on this disc, pieces on which she worked with the composers themselves, are world premiere recordings.
Heinz Holliger: Trema
Trema
Gyorgy Ligeti: Viola Sonata
I. Hora Lunga
II. Loop
III. Facsar
IV. Prestissimo con sordino
V. Lamento
VI. Chaconne
Franco Donatoni: Ali
I.
II.
Helmut Lachenmann: Toccatina
Toccatina
Giacinto Scelsi: Manto
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III.
Awards Issue 2011
“Strosser's fingers are kept crazy busy, but each note matters”
21st July 2011
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“as Geneviève Strosser shows, [the Ligeti] is a very considerable addition to the solo-viola repertory...there's Lachenmann's Toccatina, too, a study originally written for violin, and one of Giacinto Scelsi's explorations of microtonal tunings in Manto, which requires the violist to sing as well as play in the final movement. Like every challenge, Strosser takes it totally in her stride.”
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Trema
