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Schnittke: Quasi una Sonata etc. / Gothóni, Wallin, Tapiola Sinfonietta

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Apr 01, 2006

Includes work(s) by Alfred Schnittke. Ensemble: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Ralf Gothóni. Soloists: Ralf Gothóni, Tero Latvala, Ulf Wallin.

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BIS

Apr 01, 2006

BIS-CD-1437

Szymanowski, Kodaly, Schnittke: Sonatas for Cello and Piano / Gustafsson, Kärkkäinen

Ondine

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Oct 09, 2008

Cello Recital: Gustafsson, Jan-Erik - SZYMANOWSKI, K. / KODA

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Szymanowski, Kodaly, Schnittke: Sonatas for Cello and Piano / Gustafsson, Kärkkäinen

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Ondine

Oct 09, 2008

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Schnittke, A.: Concerto Grosso No. 1 (Version For Flute And

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Jun 01, 2009

Classical Music

Schnittke, A.: Concerto Grosso No. 1 (Version For Flute And

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BIS

Jun 01, 2009

BIS-CD-1727

SCHNITTKE: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 / Epilogue / Musica no

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Sep 25, 2007

SCHNITTKE: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 / Epilogue / Musica no

SCHNITTKE: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 / Epilogue / Musica no

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Profil

Sep 25, 2007

PH08002

Schnittke: Film Music, Vol. 6 - Little Tragedies

Capriccio

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Oct 04, 2024

Alfred Schnittke's film music encapsulates almost everything that characterises the Russian composer's compositional style. A self-described polystylist, he began writing for film in the 1960s, penning 66 film scores between 1962 and 1984 for Soviet film companies. His method of drawing on the past was rejected by the avant-garde but embraced by filmgoers and concertgoers too. Volume six in this CD Edition of Schnittke's film music presents music from the film series "Little Tragedies" (1979) based on popular novels by Alexander Pushkin. After longtime research conductor Vladimir Jurowski also recorded all parts of the score which have been cancelled at the end for the final Film Version.

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Schnittke: Film Music, Vol. 6 - Little Tragedies

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Capriccio

Oct 04, 2024

C5496

Schnittke: Discoveries

Toccata

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May 11, 2010

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Toccata

May 11, 2010

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Schnittke: Variations On One Chord, Piano Concerto / Lyubitskaya, Gorenstein

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Jun 10, 2008

SCHNITTKE Piano Concerto. 1 Improvisation and Fugue. Variations on a Chord • Victoria Lyubitskaya (pn); Mark Gorenstein, cond; 1 Russian St Academy O 1 • FUGA LIBERA 532 (44:11)

Alfred Schnittke (1943–1998) remains one of the seminal composers of the late 20th century, and any new recording of his music is welcome. His Piano Concerto was completed in 1979 and exemplifies his polystylism, bringing in echoes of Baroque and Classical music while undermining them with kaleidoscopic shifts of emphasis and cluster-filled interruptions. The composer himself described the result as musical “sleepwalking,” although the Concerto lacks the rambling quality of his austere late works.

Lyubitskaya’s playing is exceptionally clear, and she is ably supported by Gorenstein and the Russian State Academy Orchestra. The orchestra has a distinguished recording history, while Gorenstein was responsible for excellent Schnittke performances on the short-lived Popemusic label (albeit with a different band). As recorded here, the orchestral strings have that “glassy” sound we used to hear in early digital releases, despite this being a 2005 recording. The piano sound and balance are fine.

Lyubitskaya shines in the solo piano works, both written as student test pieces earlier in the composer’s career. She is more incisive than is Boris Berman on Chandos, underlining a stylistic link between early Schnittke and Shostakovich.

So this disc is recommended, but with the proviso that 44 minutes is unacceptably short timing for a full-priced CD, especially when other versions of the Piano Concerto are available. On the cheap Apex label you will find one by Viktoria Postnikova, conducted by her husband Gennady Rozhdestvensky (both close friends of the composer), which is the favorite in several online reviews. I find Postnikova heavy-handed and her approach unvaryingly monumental, preferring a more rounded performance by Ralf Gothoni on Ondine, if you can find it. The latter’s strings are better recorded, Gothoni’s pianism is subtler and at times genuinely dreamlike (cf. sleepwalking), while the couplings are substantial: the Third Violin Concerto and Third Violin Sonata with Mark Lubotsky.

However, if you don’t want much more than the concerto, Lyubitskaya will do you proud.

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Schnittke: Variations On One Chord, Piano Concerto / Lyubitskaya, Gorenstein

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Fuga Libera

Jun 10, 2008

FUG532

Bortniansky, Schnittke & Vedel: Choir Concerto

SWR

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Oct 11, 2024

The Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent Cultural Revolution did everything in their power to destroy the influence of religion in the Russian Empire. Sacred music was publicly forgotten in the process. Although Schnittke, whose German-born father emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1926, was atheistically influenced by the state education system, he believed spiritually in "something greater". In 1982, he was baptized a Catholic, and shortly before his death he was accepted into the Orthodox Church. The search for a religious identity can also be traced in his works. Vedel and Berezovsky are among the most important composers of Ukrainian classical music of the 18th century. Little is known about Vedel's life. The works attributed to him, including 31 choral concertos, are all set to liturgical texts or Bible verses. In these works, the traditions of the Orthodox church music of his homeland, Ukrainian baroque tradition and folk songs merge with a new Western European operatic and instrumental style. Bortniansky is highly credited with bringing the genre of the sacred concerto to fruition. Consisting of psalm verses set to music, which were sung during the Eucharist in church services, it's purpose at the time was far-reaching: as a universal genre, it was the highlight of the Orthodox liturgy, an adornment of the state ceremony and also intended for a kind of domestic music-making. In the Western repertoire, it comes closest to the instrumental concerto grosso, with the difference that no instruments are permitted in the Orthodox service.

Bortniansky, Schnittke & Vedel: Choir Concerto

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SWR

Oct 11, 2024

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Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony; 2 Pieces for String Octet

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Jan 01, 2004

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Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony; 2 Pieces for String Octet

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Capriccio

Jan 01, 2004

C67115

Shostakovich: Chamber Music

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Aug 01, 2025

Dmitri Shostakovich is one of the indubitably great composers of the 20th century and left works of greatness in every genre, from the symphonies to opera, film- and light music, concertos, and, of course, chamber music. This collection offers a great overview of his contributions to that genre. It features a few favorites, like Rudolf Barshai's Chamber Symphony (arranged from String Quartet No.8), String Quartet No.1, and the Piano Quintet to lesser-known gems and rarely heard works for two pianos like the tiny, witty Tarantella or his dramatic, cinematic Concertino. It is capped with Alfred Schnittke's tribute to the master, the Prelude in Memory of Dmitri Shostakovich.

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Shostakovich: Chamber Music

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Capriccio

Aug 01, 2025

C7470

Schnittke: Film Music Edition, Vol. 5 / Strobel, RSO Berlin, Berlin Radio Choir

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Oct 01, 2021

The seductive, addictive potential of this music can be heard and felt straight away. His film music, an important pillar of his livelihood, embodies almost everything that characterizes Schnittke's music as a whole. It heralds a musical personality which, precisely because of its conscious use of tradition in the twentieth century, represents a solitary exception. Curious – not greedy for the old – he collected discarded or worn-out remains of music history, cleaned and polished them, and placed them in strikingly new contexts. The principle of drawing from and making use of the past was not well received in the strongholds of the avant-garde, but was all the more enthusiastically embraced by film viewers and concertgoers. 25 years ago Schnittke had encouraged the young conductor, arranger, and film music expert Frank Strobel to condense the music of his film scores into suites and to republish them for concert use. Since then, Strobel has arranged around a third of Schnittke’s over 60 pieces of film music and successively recorded them with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.

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Schnittke: Film Music Edition, Vol. 5 / Strobel, RSO Berlin, Berlin Radio Choir

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Capriccio

Oct 01, 2021

C5350

Schnittke: Hyronimus Bosch Fragments & Other Works / Spivakov, Moscow Virtuosi

Capriccio

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Feb 03, 2017

Capriccio's Encore series features re-releases of the most famous recordings from the Capriccio back catalogue. These legendary recordings are of artists like Sandor Vegh, Ton Koopman, Sir Neville Marriner and the Vienna Boys' Choir. The series spans highlights from the baroque era to the contemporary era. This album showcases the Moscow Virtuosi, led by Vladimir Spivakov in a famous recording of Schnittke's Hieronymus Bosch Fragments.

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Schnittke: Hyronimus Bosch Fragments & Other Works / Spivakov, Moscow Virtuosi

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Capriccio

Feb 03, 2017

C8011

Schnittke: Piano Concerto; 5 Aphorisms; Gogol Suite / Denys Proshayev

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Oct 28, 2014

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Schnittke: Piano Concerto; 5 Aphorisms; Gogol Suite / Denys Proshayev

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Piano Classics

Oct 28, 2014

PCL0071

Weinberg, Penderecki & Schnittke: String Trios / Trio Lirico

Audite Musikproduktion

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Sep 06, 2019

The Trio Lirico has programmed three composers who lived and worked on the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain until 1989: for Franziska Pietsch and Sophia Reuter this is music which - paraphrasing Goethe - they "search with their souls". "As children, we both lived in East Berlin and were close friends already", Franziska Pietsch explains about her violist colleague. "We therefore share personal history, a similar style of playing and a similar non-verbal way of communicating about this music. We just feel it." This personal form of perception, into which the Bremen cellist Johannes Krebs blends empathetically, is not irrelevant for this music which becomes accessible not just via the text but also to a high degree via the cultural and political environment in which it was written. Of course Krzysztof Penderecki (b.1933), following the political liberalization of Polish music from 1956, had the opportunity to tie in with avant-garde developments in the West and to create his very own and unique modernism. On the other hand, his generational colleague Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) and the older Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996) had, until the end of the Soviet Union, to assert their music in the face of massive harassment from the authorities which, in Weinberg's case, went as far as being arrested for anti-Semitic reasons. Born in Warsaw, Weinberg, who fled to the Soviet Union during the Second World War, kept in close contact with his friend and mentor Dmitri Shostakovich. Nonetheless, Weinberg's music is entirely unique, and his string trio of 1950 strikes a balance between popular tunes and references to Yiddish music. Alfred Schnittke, who found it hard gaining acceptance on account of his (Volga) German and Jewish heritage, composed his trio in 1985 for the birthday of his illustrious colleague Alban Berg - and, shortly after completing the work, suffered a life-threatening stroke, retrospectively lending this work a tragic note. The most recent work recorded here is by Poland's most eminent living composer, Krzysztof Penderecki: in 1991 he wrote his string trio as a great improvisation for three performers with a strict and wild fugue.

Weinberg, Penderecki & Schnittke: String Trios / Trio Lirico

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Audite Musikproduktion

Sep 06, 2019

AUD97753

Schnittke: Cello Concerto, Etc / Kliegel, Markson, Et Al

Naxos

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Nov 01, 1999

SCHNITTKE: Cello Concerto / Stille Musik / Cello Sonata

Schnittke: Cello Concerto, Etc / Kliegel, Markson, Et Al

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Naxos

Nov 01, 1999

8554465

Defying Destiny

Haenssler Classic

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Jul 05, 2024

Anna Zassimova invites us to take a third journey through the musical landscape of Russian destiny. This journey through the peculiarly Russian Ouroboros of the tormented twentieth century enables us to discover, once again, rare works and the uncharted environments in which they took root. All these works are parables of implacable destinies against which it seems futile to struggle, but which must be defied in order to follow the veiled path of the soul.

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Haenssler Classic

Jul 05, 2024

HC23052

Capriccio malinconico - Works for Violin & Piano

Ars Produktion

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May 30, 2025

For his debut album, Arsenis Selalmazidis has chosen works by Schnittke, Ravel and Faure because their work had a profound influence on him. All the pieces are arranged in such a way that the difference between the musical eras is barely noticeable. With this album, it is important to him to give listeners the opportunity to slow down and pause for a moment in the hectic rhythm of modern music.

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Ars Produktion

May 30, 2025

ARS38678

Hommage à J.S. Bach: Works for Violin Solo / Kadesha

Linn Records

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Jun 10, 2022

Linn is delighted to announce a new collaboration with violinist Jonian Ilias Kadesha. This highly distinctive musician has worked with leading artists and orchestras such as Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Nicolas Altstaedt, Steven Isserlis and Patricia Kopatchinskaja to name but a few. For his debut album on Linn, he has recorded a high-flying recital of solo violin pieces spanning five centuries. One of the oldest pieces of music written for solo violin, Biber’s angelic and absolutely mesmerizing Passacaglia stands alongside Bach’s enduringly famous Second Partita, whose last movement is the starting point for the Ciaccona for Violin Solo by Swiss composer Helena Winkelman, which receives its first commercial recording here. Twentieth and twenty-first-century works by Schnittke, Kurtág and Lera Auerbach, all heavily inspired by Bach’s music, complete the program which augurs a fruitful partnership with a promising young talent.