Schubert, Arpeggione for Viola and Piano (Henle) 1/32-1/16 accurate pitching based on singing

accurate pitching based on singing and well-understood scales

Summertime (Porgy and Bess)

Komm Lieber Mai (Longing for Spring) from Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge

The A- and D-strings have a high-tensile steel core and are wound with a precision chrome steel flat wire

Maybe It's Time

Schubert, Arpeggione for Viola and Piano (Henle) 1/32-1/16 accurate pitching based on singingGood intentions are simply not good enough (to freely paraphrase Kurt Tucholsky): the arpeggione, a kind of hybrid instrument like a large bowed guitar, never won acceptance among musicians. This curiosity of instrumental engineering would certainly have long since been consigned to oblivion had not Franz Schubert of all people composed his A minor sonata for it. This three movement work is now truly immortal, but at the same time presents a problem