JAVS Summer 2018

Details : Mvmt. I: 34 measures

Mvmt. II: 2 measures (the entire cadenza consists of 1 lengthy measure, roughly equivalent to 38 measures)

Recordings :

Demeterová, Gabriela : Mvmt. I (modi ed, using the beginning and later portions) and Mvmt. II (using snippets to form a brief cadenza) Hosprová, Jitka : Mvmts. I and II Michalakakos, Michel : Mvmt. I Wigand, Heinz : Mvmt. I (slightly modi ed at end) and Mvmt. II (slightly shortened, with a few notes omitted) Zukerman, Pinchas : Mvmt. I (with slight modi cations) and Mvmt. II (using snippets to form a brief cadenza)

Composer : Movements :

Pártos, Oedoen (1907–1977)

1 and 2

Editions :

Tel Aviv: Israel Music Institute, 1980, IMI 6227 (arranged by Oedoen Pártos for Viola and String Quartet); and IMI 6227A (arranged by Oedoen Pártos for Viola and String Orchestra).

Note : Pártos was a Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer who served as Principal Violist of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra (later the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra) and as director of the Israel Academy of Music (later the Rubin Academy of Tel-Aviv University). is arrangement was made in 1939, and at least 50% of the viola’s measures have some alteration, not counting the numerous changes of form (with added sections and alterations to the end of each movement). In the rst and second movements, the orchestra accompanies the viola during the cadenzas, with the viola playing until the end. In the third movement, the form is altered with the insertion of a repeated B section and an added coda, resulting in the form: ABACABADA+Coda. Cadenza notations appear at m. 37, m. 93 (m. 101 in this edition), m. 37 (m. 138 in this edition; the additional B section), and m. 165 (m. 207 in this edition), though Pártos does not provide cadenzas.

Details : Mvmt. I: 28 measures

Mvmt. II: 12 measures

Journal of the American Viola Society / Vol. 34, 2018 Online Issue

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