Works

I. Monolog
II. Evanescente
III. Recitativo
IV. Prestissimo alucinante
V. ...quase una fuga...

Instrumentation (detailed)

Strings (plucked / bowed)

Viola

Performer(s) Notes

I wrote the Solo Viola Sonata by comission of the musician João Pedro Delgado, even though I already had the project of writing a work of this kind. However, the ocasion for it to be written and played hadn’t appeared yet.
The work develops itself around a chormatic idea that appears, sometimes under disguise, in all movements, interchanging with other ideas based in open strings and natural harmonics. This tension between chromatism and diatoni- cism as always been part of my lan- guage, however it assumes a more important role in the present work. Each movement, nevertheless con- tasting at some point, is also unified by the weight of the open C string, note with which all movements but the second begin. The dark tone of the viola allows a melancholic and heavy musical character, and, from that point of view, this sonata is a result of the own natural character of the instrument.

Sérgio Azevedo

Work	Type	Date	Organization/Event	Venue	Town	Country	Performers	Notes	Inv Row
Sonata para Viola Solo	Pre-premiere	2014/Oct/16	Festival Síntese	Teatro Municipal da Guarda	Guarda	Portugal	João Pedro Delgado (viola)	Notes	Partial premiere of the incomlete version of the Sonata - 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th movement
Partial premiere of the incomlete version of the Sonata - 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th movement
Sonata para Viola Solo	Premiere	2014/Dec/10		Teatro Viriato	Viseu	Portugal	João Pedro Delgado (viola)	Notes	Premiere of the ingeral version
Premiere of the ingeral version
Sonata para Viola Solo	Performance	2014/Nov/26	42nd International Viola Congress	Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória	Porto	Portugal	Helena Leão, viola	Notes	Performance of three parts of the Sonata: I. Monolog III. Recitativo V. (… quase una fuga…)
Performance of three parts of the Sonata: I. Monolog III. Recitativo V. (… quase una fuga…)

Documents
	Type (+ sub-type)	Cover/edition title Document title	Authors	Referring to	Publisher	Date
	Audio	João Pedro Delgado Viola Solo e Electrónica - Música de Compositores Portugueses Portuguese Contemporary Music for Viola and Electronics  Sonata para Viola Solo		sonata para viola solo Sérgio Azevedo João Pedro Delgado	Síntese - GMC	2014 2014