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      viola BBT Award Winner 2006

        Excerpt from the live World Premiere recording from Musikprotokoll Graz on 10th October 2009. Further performances on 20th November 2009 at Wien Modern and 31st January 2010 with DSO Berlin conducted by Alejo Perez. The work was commissioned for Antoine Tamestit by BBT, ORF, Wien Modern, the late Betty Freeman and DSO Berlin.

        The second of Antoine Tamestit's BBT-supported discs on Ambroisie includes his first concerto recording - and it is no coincidence that it is Schnittke, a work that has been central to his career to date.  Shostakovich's final work, the Sonata for viola and piano (with long-time collaborator Markus Hadulla) provides the perfect accompaniment.

        "Tamestit's lively, historically informed manner extends through the earlier movements of the Partita, the rhythmic character of each dance emerging with great clarity. The performance of the Ligeti - a magnificent, enthralling piece that's already emerged as a peak of the viola repertoire - is extraordinarily clean and accurate." (Gramophone August 2007)

        "More completely satisfactory than any account I have ever heard of this work" BBC Music Magazine, July 2009

        Three BBT Award Winners - Martin Helmchen, Antoine Tamestit and Marie-Elisabeth Hecker - are joined by BBT Honorary Committee member Christian Tetzlaff.

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