Repertoire
ECHO Rising Stars select by Elbphilharmonie, Festspielhaus Baden Baden, Müpa, Barbican Centre.
Robert Schumann: Märchenbilder, op.113
Julia Wolfe: New work (2025) Premiere
Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for viola and piano, op.147
ARTISTS
Sào Soulez Larivière, viola and electronics
Annika Treutler, piano
Programme
The versatile and demanding French-Dutch violist, Sào Soulez Larivière, chosen as a Rising Star by the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO), performs works from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries that showcase the expressiveness, virtuosity and surprising capabilities of his instrument. All the spontaneity, fantasy and lyricism of the best Schumann are present in the four Fairy Tale Pictures, Op. 113, for Viola and Piano written in just four days in 1851. More than 120 years later, in 1975, Shostakovich bids farewell to the compositional world with his Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147, completed only a month before his death. Melancholic, dark and testamentary, this work confirms the Russian composer’s veneration for the unique timbre of this string instrument. The programme culminates with a new work for 2025 by the American post-minimalist Julia Wolfe (1958), for viola and electronics.
