Reverse Directions
The Voice In Between: A Viola Soloist At Her Most Personal.
For violist Dana Zemtsov, born in Mexico City and raised in the Netherlands, movement and belonging are two sides of the same journey. Reverse Directions follows that idea through four works, each reflecting a different kind of return. Gyula Dávid’s Viola Concerto transforms Hungarian folk traditions into a living identity. Martinů’s Rhapsody-Concerto, written in exile, carries the tension between distance and belonging, with nostalgia for a home that can never quite be revisited. Fazıl Say’s In Memoriam Rusen Güneş is a tribute to a close friend, in which the idea of return becomes spiritual, and Tárrega’s Recuerdos de la Alhambra reflects on memory as its own form of home.
Zemtsov, described by Gramophone for playing “so perfectly tuned, so varied in color” that it sounds like a chamber orchestra, treats the viola as the voice “in between”: human, searching and intimate. She is joined by the Sinfonieorchester St.Gallen under Modestas Pitrėnas. Recorded in May 2025 in St Gallen by Channel Classics’ Jared Sacks, the album is a personal and sonically refined statement from one of the most distinctive viola soloists of her generation.
Dana Zemtsov, viola
Sinfonieorchester St.Gallen
Modestas Pitrėnas, conductor
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