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Alexander Melnikov - Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards (2023)

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Alexander Melnikov - Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards (2023)

Alexander Melnikov - Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 227 Mb | Total time: 68:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMM 902702 | Recorded: 2022

A lover of historical keyboard instruments, Alexander Melnikov has already successfully met the challenge of exploring ‘Four Pieces, Four Pianos’ on disc and in concert back in 2018. Today, he has chosen to perform seven emblematic works of the fantasia genre on harpsichord, fortepiano, tangent piano, early grands, and so on. In this journey through the keyboards of time, we can discover these pieces as they sounded at the time of their creation, but also grasp the invisible thread that links them to each other.

Gidon Kremer, Heinrich Schiff, Christoph von Dohnányi - Schnittke: Concerti Grossi Nos.1 & 5 (2002)

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Gidon Kremer, Heinrich Schiff, Christoph von Dohnányi - Schnittke: Concerti Grossi Nos.1 & 5 (2002)

Gidon Kremer, Heinrich Schiff, Christoph von Dohnányi - Schnittke: Concerti Grossi Nos.1 & 5 (2002)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 398 MB | MP3 (CBR 320 kbps) - 199 MB | 01:17:29
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

DG has put together a very smart reissue here. "Concerto grosso 1" and "Quasi una sonata" for violin and chamber orchestra were originally released in 1989. "Concerto grosso 5" has been rescued from its original 1993 release back-to-back with a Glass piece, and is now united with the other Kremer performances of Schnittke.

Keller Quartett, Alexei Lubimov - Alfred Schnittke, Dmitri Shostakovich: Lento (2003)

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Keller Quartett, Alexei Lubimov - Alfred Schnittke, Dmitri Shostakovich: Lento (2003)

Keller Quartett, Alexei Lubimov - Alfred Schnittke, Dmitri Shostakovich: Lento (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 237 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 154 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1755, 461 815-2 | Time: 01:05:00

Schnittke's Piano Quintet, a creative response to his mother's death, is an austere, haunting work full of grief and tenderness that marks one of his early ventures into polystylistic writing. The opening piano solo is unique, a spare statement of puzzlement in the face of tragedy. It gives way to a waltz, as if recapturing a lost past, then the graceful dance melody literally disintegrates as the strings venture off into other regions, vainly trying to reassemble the theme and failing. At the end of its touching five movements the music's despair is transformed into serene, hard-won acceptance. Shostakovitch's 15th Quartet, his final statement in that form, premiered just months before his death. It's six slow movements are shot through with contemplative sadness and regret. The music is so rich in texture and substance that attention never flags.

Danish String Quartet - Prism II: Beethoven, Schnittke, Bach (2019)

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Danish String Quartet - Prism II: Beethoven, Schnittke, Bach (2019)

Danish String Quartet - Prism II: Beethoven, Schnittke, Bach (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 328 Mb | Total time: 76:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ECM | # ECM 2562 | Recorded: 2017

The Danish String Quartet’s Grammy-nominated Prism project links Bach fugues, late Beethoven quartets and works by modern masters. In volume two of the series, Bach’s Fugue in Bb minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier (in the arrangement by Viennese composer Emanuel Aloys Förster) is brought together with Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 130 and Alfred Schnittke’s String Quartet No.3 (composed in 1983). As the quartet explains, “A beam of music is split through Beethoven’s prism. The important thing to us is that these connections be experienced widely. We hope the listener will join us in the wonder of thee beams of music that travel all the way from Bach through Beethoven to our own times.”

Lydia Mordkovitch, Emma Young, Clifford Benson - Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alfred Schnittke: Violin Sonatas (1991)

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Lydia Mordkovitch, Emma Young, Clifford Benson - Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alfred Schnittke: Violin Sonatas (1991)

Sergey Prokofiev: Sonata in D, Op. 115 & Sonata in C, Op. 56;
Dmitri Shostakovich: Violin Sonata, Op. 134;
Alfred Schnittke: Praeludium D. Shostakovich
Lydia Mordkovitch, violin; Emma Young, violin; Clifford Benson, piano

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 253 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 147 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 8988 | Time: 01:02:00

Recordings such as this superb one serve to remind us that though we may think we know the output of the major composers, there are still treasures to be discovered. Works for individual instruments find their way into recital programs but often lie in shadow of the 'big works' for the concert.

Franz Welser-Möst, The Cleveland Orchestra - Schnittke: Piano Concerto; Prokofiev: Symphony No.2 (2021)

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Franz Welser-Möst, The Cleveland Orchestra - Schnittke: Piano Concerto; Prokofiev: Symphony No.2 (2021)

Franz Welser-Möst, The Cleveland Orchestra - Schnittke: Piano Concerto; Prokofiev: Symphony No.2 (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 246 Mb | Total time: 54:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Cleveland Orchestra | # TCO0003 | Recorded: 2020

The third album on The Cleveland Orchestra’s label follows the ‘old-new’ pairing of their previous release, showcasing recordings of Prokofiev and Schnittke that cover both pre- and post-pandemic music making.

Vadim Gluzman, Johannes Moser, Yevgeny Sudbin - Tchaikovsky & Babajanian: Piano Trios (2019)

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Vadim Gluzman, Johannes Moser, Yevgeny Sudbin - Tchaikovsky & Babajanian: Piano Trios (2019)

Vadim Gluzman, Johannes Moser, Yevgeny Sudbin - Tchaikovsky & Babajanian: Piano Trios (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 73:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-2372 | Recorded: 2017

In Russian chamber music, a rather special tradition evolved around the piano trio, with a number of composers turning to the genre to write ‘instrumental requiems’. First out was Tchaikovskywith his Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50, ‘à la mémoired’un grand artiste’, and he was followed by composers such as Rachmaninov, Arenskyand Shostakovich. In the case of Tchaikovsky’s trio, the ‘grand artiste’ was the pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, and Tchaikovsky chose the trio genre as he felt that a piece for solo piano would be too lightweight and one with orchestral accompaniment would be too showy. The work is in two movements, a Pezzoelegiaco(‘elegiac piece’) and a set of variations, and it begins with the cello playing a moving lament which sets the tone for the entire first movement. The theme returns at the end of the second movement in the form of an impassioned funeral march.

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Russia: Schnittke, Taneyev, Gubaidulina, Glinka, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky (2014)

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Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Russia: Schnittke, Taneyev, Gubaidulina, Glinka, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky (2014)

Marcus Creed, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart - Russia: Schnittke, Taneyev, Gubaidulina, Glinka, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 218 Mb | Total time: 62:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hänssler Classic | # CD 93.317 | Recorded: 2013

Diese CD bietet eine breite Palette russischer Komponisten, die in der Tradition orthodoxer Kirchenmusik komponierten. Sie reicht von Michail Glinka, Peter Tschaikowsky, Sergej Tanejew und Sergej Rachmaninoff bis zu Alfred Schnittke und Sofia Gubaidulina, von romantisch-expressiven Vertonungen bis zu den expressiven Klängen der beiden neueren Komponisten.

Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov - Martinů, Schnittke: Concertos for Two Pianos (2002)

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Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov - Martinů, Schnittke: Concertos for Two Pianos (2002)

Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov - Martinů, Schnittke: Concertos for Two Pianos (2002)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 54:01 | 241 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: 999804

Despite the poor choice of couplings, this disc contains outstanding performances of both major works. The Clinton-Narboni Duo on Elan recently set the standard in Martinu's wonderful Concerto for Two Pianos, but this performance is every bit as good, and happily quite different. Rather than the chamber orchestra featured on Elan, Genova and Dimitrov enjoy the backing of a full ensemble, and what they sacrifice in the finer points of harmonic detail (evident, for example, at the opening of the finale) they more than make up for in sheer adrenalin. The very natural balances also pay major dividends in the atmospheric textures of the long central slow movement.

Lubotsky Trio - Mozart: Divertimento, K.563 Schnittke: String Trio (2018)

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Lubotsky Trio - Mozart: Divertimento, K.563 Schnittke: String Trio (2018)

Lubotsky Trio - Mozart: Divertimento, K.563 Schnittke: String Trio (2018)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 71:42 | 361 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Melodiya | Catalog: MEL CD 10 02566

Melodiya presents recordings of chamber music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Alfred Schnittke performed by the trio led by the outstanding musician Mark Lubotsky. Despite a 200-year gap between them, the music of these composers has much in common. It is the versatility of the genre palette, the combination of daring and bold innovation and the sense of continuity, an acute awareness of the tragedy of earthly existence while maintaining an objective attitude to the art.