Various Composers - The Romantic Viola II (Daniel Weissmann; Peter Petrov)

Information

• Charles Tournemire - Suite en trois parties, Op. 11
• Ernest Chausson - Pièce pour violoncelle ou alto et piano, Op. 39
• Louis Vierne - Deux pièces pour alto, Op. 5
• Hector Berlioz - Harold en Italie (arr. Hugh MacDonald)

Daniel Weissmann, viola

Peter Petrov, piano

Date: 2020

Label: Fuga Libera

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Description

Daniel Weissmann, Managing Director of the Liège Royal Philharmonic, is also a violist. Following an initial album released by Fuga Libera (2018) and chiefly devoted to German music, he continues his exploration of the chamber repertory for viola with this new album, here in partnership with the pianist Peter Petrov. The programme explores the French Romantic repertory, in a worldpremiere recording of the British musicologist Hugh Macdonald’s remarkable and formidably difficult arrangement for viola and piano of Berlioz’s Harold en Italie. The album is completed by ‘fin-de-siècle’ pieces by Vierne, Chausson and Tournemire (all three students of César Franck), written between 1894 and 1897, which embrace the full expressive and melancholic potential of the instrument.

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Daniel Weissmann began studying music at an early age, receiving violin and chamber music diplomas from the École Normale de Musique de Paris and the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles. Combining his musical expertise with studies in economics and management, he has held numerous leadership roles in French musical institutions, including the Orchestre Chalon Bourgogne, Opéra-Dijon and Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne. Since 2015, he has served as Managing Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège. Also a dedicated violist, he performs and records Baroque and Romantic repertoire.

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