Schnittke: Chamber Music

Janáček Trio

PRD 250248

Alfred Schnittke was born in 1934 in Engels, capital of the Volga German Republic, as the son of Harry Schnittke, born in Frankfurt am Main. In 1946 he began his musical education in Vienna, where his father worked as an editor. A Viennese influence also remained in Moscow, where he continued his studies from 1948: Philip Herschkowitz, one of his teachers, had been a student of Anton Webern before emigrating to the USSR. Vienna is reflected in Schnittke's first compositions; even in his later work from 1968, when he had grown tired of experiments with one-dimensional serial music, the city remains subliminally present. In many of his compositions, various styles are strung together, from Handel's Baroque, Mozart's Classical, a chromaticism reminiscent of Tristan - to extended serial compositional techniques.

SACD

Muzyka klasyczna

Praga Digitals

17-03-2008

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