Dirt & Sky

Dirt & Sky brings the bowed sound of viola together with plucked mandolin and harp. Its three-player instrumentation offers a distinctive chamber-program combination. The available May 2022 recording documents the first movement only.

Instrumentation / edition: Viola, mandolin and harp

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