ABC Classic FM CD of the Week, April 19th 2010

Track Listing:

Sonata in A minor ‘Arpeggione’, D821
Liebesbotschaft, D957 No.1
An den Mond, D193
Dass sie hier gewesen! D775 (Rückert)
Wehmut, D772 (Collin)
Nacht und Träume, D827
Die Taubenpost D957 No. 14
Romanze: Ich schleiche bang und still, D787 No. 3 (Castelli)
Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965 (Von Chezy / Muller)

The highly acclaimed violist Antoine Tamestit releases his third album on Naïve. Dedicated to the music of Franz Schubert, in particular the Arpeggione Sonata, it also features the celebrated French soprano, Sandrine Piau in The Shepherd on the Rock.

Antoine Tamestit has transcribed Schubert’s music for the viola, featuring the multi-award winning Sandrine Piau - recently voted the Singer of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2009. She performs two Schubert lieder: ‘Ich schleiche bang und still herum’ and ‘Der hirt auf dem felsen’. The recording features the Arpeggione Sonata – the only substantial work in existence written for the now extinct string instrument, the arpeggione. After his success in international competitions in Paris, New York, and Munich, Antoine Tamestit won the Credit Suisse Young Artist Award in January 2008, which gave him the opportunity to play with the Vienna Philharmonic and Riccardo Muti at the Lucerne Festival. He has subsequently recorded two albums for Ambroisie/Naïve ‘Bach: Ligeti’ and ‘Shostakovich / Schnittke’.