Ask Alice - On Wagner string parts and Fred Sherry's Bach duets, with classical music agony aunt Alice McVeigh

On Wagner string parts and Fred Sherry's Bach duets,
with classical music agony aunt ALICE McVEIGH

Hi Alice, I play the viola in a semi-pro orchestra, and I'm fed-up with Wagner (we are essaying the first act of Die Walküre). He has given the most extraordinarily finger-twisting section to the violas: even the violins get nothing like it!..

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