 | Schnittke: Symphony No. 9; Raskatov: Nunc Dimittis by The Hilliard Ensemble
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $10.39 SYMPHONY NO. 9
The long-awaited work which Schittke left incomplete, reconstructed by Alexander Raskatov!
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 | Schnittke: Complete String Quartets by Alfred Schnittke
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $14.49 STRINGS -- 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
Schnittke excelled at writing for strings, and Kronos tackles these tragic works with panache
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 | Alfred Schnittke: Complete Violin Concertos (1-4) - Gidon Kremer / Christoph Eschenbach by Alfred Schnittke
Buy used from: $14.00 STRINGS -- 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
Gidon Kremer was Schnittke's biggest champion, and pours passion into the concertos.
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 | Alfred Schnittke: Concerti Grossi 1 & 5; Quasi una sonata
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.99 STRINGS -- 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
Kremer again -- a brilliant set
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 | Schnittke-Concerto Grosso No. 1/Cello Concerto
Buy used from: $19.80 STRINGS -- 4 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
An earlier live recording of Kremer playing the CG 1, one of Schnittke's most popular works. This version is also available on Col Legno's Collage of Schnittke.
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 | Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 2; Viola Concerto
STRINGS -- 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
The first recording of the Viola Concerto, live, by its dedicatee Yuri Bashmet. The piece made Bashmet's reputation, and you can hear why.
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 | Schnittke: Viola Concerto; Trio Sonata
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A later studio recording of the Viola Concerto by Bashmet with Slava leading the LSO.
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| Schnittke: Viola Concerto; Trio Sonata
Buy used from: $8.40 STRINGS
This is the same disc as the one above, with Bashmet/Slava/LSO, but it's still available as an ArkivMusic reissue.
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 | Schnittke: Konzert für Viola und Orchester / Kancheli: Vom Winde beweint (liturgy)
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Kim Kashkashian's recording of the Viola Concerto, paired with a Kancheli viola concerto .
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 | Schnittke: String Trio/Concerto For Three/Minuet/Berg: Canon
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This disc features Gidon Kremer (violin), Yuri Bashmet (viola) and Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)!!
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 | Alexander Ivashkin Plays Schnittke
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This 2-disc set from Chandos collects Ivashkin's recordings of works for cello, including both concertos
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 | Schnittke: Cello Concerto No. 2/(K)ein Sommernachtstraum
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The first Cello Concerto is above at #4, performed by its dedicatee Natalie Gutman. The 2nd was dedicated to Rostropovich, and here's Ivashkin's version.
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 | Schnittke: Cello Concerto No.2; In Memoriam
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Rostropovich is the dedicatee of the Cello Concerto 2, but I recommend the Ivashkin over this recording, which is wrecked by the orchestra and "In Memoriam" -- both are way over the top.
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 | Schnittke: Chamber Music
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The String Trio is considered one of Schnittke's finest works, and the Piano Quintet is quite popular (see more piano recordings below)
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 | Cello Sonatas 1 & 2 / Sonata Op 147 / Moderato by Schnittke
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Two cello & piano sonatas by Schnittke along with 3 works by Shostakovich -- these are two composers who belong together.
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 | Schnittke: Complete music for cello and piano
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Schnittke's friend and champion Ivashkin with the complete music for cello and piano
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 | Schnittke: Symphony No. 1
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $11.95 SYMPHONY NO. 1
A wild mocking work, and the beginning of Schnittke's "polystylism." I recommend Polyansky's cycle on Chandos, but he hasn't recorded the First yet.
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 | Schnittke: Symphony No.2
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $11.45 SYMPHONY NO. 2
An early indication of Schnittke's turn toward Catholicism -- this recording is by Polyansky and the RSSO.
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 | Schnittke: Symphony 3
Buy used from: $9.50 SYMPHONY NO. 3
The Third is supposedly woven out of motifs representing Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and many more German composers, but it's hard to detect them all. It opens with a long mystical section, and it has many lyrical passages that bely its reputation for strict formal constructionism.
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 | Alfred Schnittke: Symphony No. 4/Three Sacred Hymns
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $10.50 SYMPHONY NO. 4 -- 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
Schnittke's even-numbered symphonies are about the spiritual, and the odd-numbered are about the social and political.
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 | Alfred Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 4 - Symphony No. 5 / Pianissimo for Large Orchestra by Alfred Schnittke
Buy new: $20.98 / Used from: $10.76 SYMPHONY NO. 5
Neemi Jarvi & the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra with a piece confusingly also called Concerto Grosso No. 4! Not his best work, I hope Polyansky records it soon.
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 | Schnittke: Symphony 6 / Concerto Grosso 2 / Polyansky by Tatiana Gridenko
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $10.95 SYMPHONY NO. 6 -- 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
The latest in Polyansky's cycle of Schnittke's for Chandos -- brilliant!
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 | Schnittke: Symphony No.7/Cello Concerto No.1
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $11.95 SYMPHONY NO. 7 -- 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
The 7th is amazing and sui generis -- must be heard to be believed. Paired with Ivashkin on the first Cello Concerto.
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 | Schnittke: Symphony No. 8/Suite from 'The Census List'
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $8.99 SYMPHONY NO. 8 -- 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
Beautiful, another great work from Polyansky and the RSSO.
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 | Alfred Schnittke: Peer Gynt (Complete Ballet) by Alfred Schnittke
Buy new: $43.98 / Used from: $18.00 BALLET -- 2 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
Schnittke's only ballet
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 | Psalms of Repentance by Alfred Schnittke
Buy used from: $12.79 CHORAL -- 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
stunning a cappella works utilizing Orthodox texts
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 | Schnittke: Choir Concerto
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $9.18 CHORAL
Schnittke' s first great vocal religious work
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 | Alfred Schnittke: Historia Von D. Johann Fausten
Buy used from: $199.86 OPERA
Gerd Albrecht and the NDR Sinfonieorchester of Hamburg with the full-length opera that the "Faust Cantata" is taken from. Schnittke was too sick to supervise, and the opera was never completed according to his plan.
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 | Faust Cantata
Buy used from: $128.50 VOCAL/ORCHESTRAL
The "Faust Cantata" with vocals and two short orchestral works
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 | Andrey Boreyko Conducts by Bach
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $14.99 VOCAL/ORCHESTRAL
new recording of the "Faust Cantata" along with vocal works by Bach and Webern
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 | Piano Quintets by Dmitry Shostakovich
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.56 PIANO -- 5 STARS -- SEE MY REVIEW
Schnittke's Piano Quintet paired with Shostakovich's, performed by Boris Berman and the Vermeer Quartet, virtuosos all.
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 | Schnittke: Concertos for Piano Four Hands; Concerto For Piano & Strings by Postnikova
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $2.99 PIANO
recordings of two piano concertos with Postnikova on piano and Rozhdestvensky conducting
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 | Schnittke: Piano Concerto; Requiem
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $51.13 PIANO
Chandos recording of the Piano Concerto
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 | Schnittke: Piano Quintet; Piano Trio by Alfred Schnittke
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $8.98 PIANO
new recording of two piano works
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 | Alfred Schnittke (20th-Century Composers) by Alexander Ivashkin
Buy new: $12.95 / Used from: $8.49 Ivashkin's biography, informative but airbrushed
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 | A Schnittke Reader: by Alfred Schnittke
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $14.71 Schnittke's essays on music, plus 36 pages of transcripts of conversations between Alexander Ivashkin and Schnittke, with an introduction by Rostropovich
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