Ferdinand Rebay: Sonatas for Violin and Guitar & Sonata for Viola and Guitar

Ferdinand Rebay: Sonatas for Violin and Guitar & Sonata for Viola and Guitar

Guitar: Pedro Mateo González

Viola:  Joaquín Riquelme

Violin: José Manuel Álvarez

This amazing release presents three first recordings, offering the opportunity to hear one of the most exciting rediscoveries in guitar music: the Austrian composer Ferdinand Rebay (1880-1953). Rebay’s style is highly sophisticated, indebted to a tradition that goes back to Schubert, Brahms and Wagner, and he stands out for having established his own unique style, melding folk music and the Austro-German compositional tradition to create works of great lyricism and organic unity, like the three sonatas included here, which establish refined dialogues in which the guitar shrugs off its usual role as mere accompanist and shares the limelight on equal terms with the other instrument.

Sonata in E minor for Violin and guitar

Allegro ma non troppo 

Variationen über ein kärntner Volkslied 

Menuetto         

Rondo (Finale) 

Sonata in C minor for Violin and guitar

Mässiges Marschtempo           

Variationen über: "Und der Hans schleicht umher"         

Scherzo           

Ein fröhliches "Perpetuum mobile" in Weber's Manier   

Sonata in D minor for Viola and guitar          

Sehr mässig bewegt    

Sehr ruhig und zart       

Scherzo           

Rondo