Soaring Spirit

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Performer), Franz Schubert (Performer), Johannes Brahms (Performer), Arthur Benjamin (Composer), Darius Milhaud (Composer), George Rochberg (Composer), Alan Shulman (Composer), Joseph De Pasquale (viola) (Composer), Angelin Chang (piano) (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms
• Composer: Arthur Benjamin, Darius Milhaud, George Rochberg, Alan Shulman, Joseph De Pasquale (viola), et al.
• Audio CD (December 28, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Albany Records
• ASIN: B0006SSOVS
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #244,620 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. None but the Lonely Heart, Op. 6, No. 6

2. From San Domingo

3. Litany for All Souls' Day, D. 343

4. Soft Strains of Music Drifting, Op. 105, No. 1

5. Sonata No. 1 for Viola and Piano, Op. 240

6. Sonata for Viola and Piano

7. Theme and Variations

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About the Artist

Acclaimed internationally for the poetry and technical brilliance of her playing, Angelin Chang has given concerts in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, highlighted by performances at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, Zelazowa Wola in Warsaw, China’s Beijing Concert Hall, the South African Broadcasting Corporation and Colombia’s Sala Luis Ángel Arango in Bogotá, as well as such American venues as Severance Hall in Cleveland, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She has had the further distinction of performing for the United Nations Women’s Organization and before the royal family of Nepal. The first American to take first prize in both piano and chamber music during the same year from the Paris Conservatoire, Dr. Chang was also the first artist-in-residence at the Kennedy Center and helped develop and launch its Arts for Everyone initiative. She earned her doctor of musical arts degree from the Peabody Institute-Johns Hopkins University, her master of music and distinguished-performer certificate from Indiana University, her baccalaureate degrees in both French and music from Ball State University and highest honors upon graduation from the Interlochen Arts Academy. Her piano teachers have included Michel Béroff, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Robert McDonald, Menahem Pressler, György Sebök, Pia Sebastiani and Dorothy Taubman. Formerly on the piano faculty at Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, Dr. Chang is director of keyboard programs, coordinator for chamber music and professor of piano at Cleveland State University. An active chamber musician, she has been recording and concertizing internationally with violist Joseph de Pasquale since 1990 and performs regularly with the De Pasquale String Quartet and members of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra.

Product Description

One of the most influential violists of our time, Joseph de Pasquale has had a profound impact on the repertoire and perception of the instrument. The dedicatee of the 25th International Viola Congress, which honored his revolutionary contributions to the field of viola performance, he holds a 50-year combined record as principal violist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra. His signature rendition of Berlioz’s Harold in Italy has become a reference work for students of the piece. And heading a distinguished musical family, he is violist of the De Pasquale String Quartet, joining with family members William and Robert, violinists, and Gloria, cellist – all members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mr. De Pasquale’s years with the Boston Symphony spanned the tenures of conductors Koussevitsky, by whom he was appointed principal violist, Munch and Leinsdorf; during that time he premiered the Piston Viola Concerto, which had been written for! him, and those of Walton and Milhaud. As principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra under Ormandy, Muti and Sawallisch, he performed virtually every major viola concerto, premiering Martinu’s Rhapsody Concerto, Bruch’s Romanze, Shulman’s Theme and Variations, and Hummel’s Potpourri. He has performed and recorded with such celebrated artists as violinist Jascha Heifetz and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. Since 1990, he has been performing and recording exclusively with pianist Angelin Chang. A graduate of the Curtis Institute, where he studied with Louis Bally, Max Aronoff and William Primrose, he has served on the faculties of Indiana University and New England Conservatory and currently teaches at Curtis. His students hold positions in major orchestras worldwide.