Alicia Calabuig & Jorge Blasco - Hans Sitt: Viola and Piano Works (2023)

On Viola and Piano Works, Alicia Calabuig (viola) and Jorge Blasco (piano) guide us through this beautiful and rarely recorded Romantic music, where lyricism reigns supreme. Hans Sitt is a highly neglected composer from late Romanticism, played a significant role in the transmission of the German tradition of Schumann and Brahms to the 20th Century. Born in Prague, he developed a brilliant career as a violinist and pedagogue, but was especially paramount in the development of the viola’s repertoire, for which he made valuable contributions, as portrayed in this album, which includes his main viola and piano works.

Tracklist
01. Albumblätter, Op. 39: I. Moderato
02. Albumblätter, Op. 39: II. Andante sostenuto
03. Albumblätter, Op. 39: III. Allegro
04. Albumblätter, Op. 39: IV. Allegro
05. Albumblätter, Op. 39: V. Lento
06. Albumblätter, Op. 39: VI. Allegro, molto vivace
07. 3 Fantasiestücke, Op. 58: I. Allegro un poco agitato
08. 3 Fantasiestücke, Op. 58: II. Andante
09. 3 Fantasiestücke, Op. 58: III. Allegretto
10. Romance, Op. 72
11. 3 Morceaux, Op. 75: I. Elegie
12. 3 Morceaux, Op. 75: II. Rêverie
13. 3 Morceaux, Op. 75: III. Barcarole
14. 3 Stücke, Op. 102: I. Romanze
15. Gavotte and Mazurka, Op. 132: I. Gavotte
16. Gavotte and Mazurka, Op. 132: II. Mazurka