Rebay - Complete Music for Viola and Guitar
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96303
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 28th May 2021
Contents
Works
Waltzes (19)Lyrische Suite
Russian Folk Songs (3)
Sonata in D minor for viola and guitar
Artists
Joel Imperial (viola)Gilbert Imperial (guitar)
Works
Waltzes (19)Lyrische Suite
Russian Folk Songs (3)
Sonata in D minor for viola and guitar
Artists
Joel Imperial (viola)Gilbert Imperial (guitar)
About
Born to a family from Lake Como, Rebay studied theory with Robert Fuchs and piano with Josef Hofmann. After first emerging as a composer of lieder (a genre that remained central to his compositional output), he was encouraged by Fuchs to write both chamber and symphonic instrumental music.
In an important 1926 article in the Österreichische Gitarre-Zeitschrift (a journal published by Ortner) Rebay boldly intervened in the debate over the languishing guitar repertoire: ‘I set out to write duets for individual wind instruments with guitar accompaniment, delighted to discover that the mixture of oboe or clarinet with the guitar sounds much more appealing than the mixture of these wind instruments with piano.’ For the first time in the history of the guitar, a composer – not a guitarist! – had identified chamber rather than solo music as the most suitable means for the creation and promotion of the instrument’s identity. Loyal to this idea, between 1924 and the early 50s Rebay composed more than 600 pieces for guitar, many of them chamber works, thus entering the ranks of one of the instrument's most prolific composers.
An indomitable curiosity for experimenting with timbre would lead Rebay to pair the guitar with every instrument, leading to a corpus of music for viola and guitar that while small is nevertheless important for the rarity both of the combination and of 20th-century Viennese viola repertoire of any kind.
With this recording, Gilbert and Joël Impérial add a crucial piece to the process of discovery and appreciation of the music of this Viennese composer, in works that join the ranks of the most important recorded music for viola and guitar.
All works but the Sonata are world-premiere recordings!
Recorded in February of 2020 in Bernareggio, Italy
The bilingual booklet contains liner notes, in English and Italian, on the composer and works written by editor, researcher and classical guitarist Lorenzo Micheli.
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