Schnittke - Cello Concertos and Sonatas
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Label: Chandos - 2-4-1
Cat No: CHAN24139
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 1st October 2007
Contents
Works
Cello Concerto no.1Cello Concerto no.2
Cello Sonata no.1
Cello Sonata no.2
Concerto Grosso no.2
Artists
Alexander Ivashkin (cello)Irina Schnittke (piano)
Tatiana Grindenko (violin)
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Valeri PolyanskyWorks
Cello Concerto no.1Cello Concerto no.2
Cello Sonata no.1
Cello Sonata no.2
Concerto Grosso no.2
Artists
Alexander Ivashkin (cello)Irina Schnittke (piano)
Tatiana Grindenko (violin)
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Valeri PolyanskyAbout
Chandos has recorded a broad and important survey of Schnittke’s music, which has done much to establish the composer’s presence on CD. This re-issue is Ivashkin’s tribute to his friend and colleague.
Schnittke is recognised as having produced some of the most moving and original music of the late twentieth century, and the works for cello are certainly amongst the most important in Schnittke’s output. Reviewing the recording of Concerto Grosso No. 2 on its original release, Gramophone declared, ‘with two fine soloists in the Concerto Grosso, this is a must for collectors of the Chandos Schnittke series and a welcome reminder of one of the later twentieth century’s most distinctive and troubling musical voices’.
Not only a devotee of Schnittke’s music, Alexander Ivashkin is also the composer’s biographer. Here he plays Cello Sonatas Nos 1 and 2 with Schnittke’s wife, Irina Schnittke, Classic CD observing that these are ‘performances which may be regarded as wholly definitive’, while Concerto Grosso No. 2 also features Tatiana Grindenko, one of the first Soviet advocates of Schnittke’s music. The concertos were recorded with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Valeri Polyansky.
All are rarely recorded works and this is the only available recording of Cello Concerto No.1.
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