North Pacific Music
NPM-LD-003

PASSION

Rozanna Weinberger, violist, and pianist Evelyne Luest team up and tear into some very meaty chamber music with high artistic ferocity and tender passion:

George Rochberg: Sonata for Viola and Piano (1979)
Georges Enescu: Concertpiece for Viola & Piano (1906)
Gary Noland: Romance for Viola & Piano (1987)
Greg A. Steinke: Santa Fe Trail Echoes for Viola Solo (1992)
Jackie T. Gabel: Hellenic Triptych for Processed Viola & Digital Electroacoustics (1993)

"...romantic... ambitious..." Brett Campbell, Eugene Weekly.

"A throwback to the time before gimmicky programming, Passion is for the diehard contemporary music lover... a new vitality to the Rochberg sonata." In Enescu's 1906 Concertpiece, "...exquisite tone... Double stops flow effortlessly. Its finale flashes right out of a Victorian salon...Noland's selection will pacify the most frustrated person." In Steinke's Santa Fe Trail Echoes, "...at her most impressive...her virtuosic tricks...intensity hold the piece together. Gabel's Hellenic Triptych...epitomizes imagination and courage in programming...wonderfully eclectic...beautifully rendered..." Eleonora M. Beck, Sforzando