A Schubertiade With Arpeggione
SCHUBERT Franz (1797-1828)
L'Amoroso - Guido Balestracci (Arpeggione - Dir)
Label : Ricercar
Artikelnummer: RIC409
1 CD Spielzeit : 063:32
CHF 22.50
The arpeggione, invented in 1823 by the Viennese luthier Johann Georg Stauffer, had a curious destiny. As its alternative names 'guitar violoncello' and 'guitare d'amour' suggest, it is in fact a guitar fitted with a bridge, held between the knees like a cello and played with a bow. The instrument enjoyed some success for around a decade, but, oddly enough, almost nothing has survived from its specific repertory except one supreme masterpiece: the sonata Franz Schubert wrote for it in 1824.