Sunday, Composer Focus Concerts, a monthly series at the Lilypad in Cambridge, turns its attention to music by Russian composer Alfred Schnittke (1934-98), including Schnittke’s 1978 violin-and-piano ...

The real legacy of Schnittke’s music is its multidimensional exploration of what musical truth in the 20th century might be, from chaotic polystylism to heartfelt spirituality All articles in this ...

Pardon my language but where the heck was everyone? It’s very possible that a potent double-shot of often gloomy Russian composers — i.e. Alfred Schnittke and Dmitri Shostakovich — didn’t mesh with ...

It takes a special kind of performer to play the music of Alfred Schnittke persuasively — to give his style the acerbic stringency it is due while still bringing out the mournful expressivity that ...

This fine new release from the young violist David Aaron Carpenter (who returns to San Francisco for a solo recital in January) offers more than just performances of two of the great string concertos ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The brochure advertising the latest Schnittke festival asks: “Who was Alfred Schnittke?” A more pertinent question, ...

Donald Macleod explores the strange, brilliant and occasionally nightmarish world of the Soviet composer Alfred Schnittke. The music of Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) is like being lost in a hall of ...

Will the real Schnittke please stand up? A composer of multifarious styles and sometimes joker, Schnittke seemed to enjoy hiding behind his many masks. As the successor to Shostakovich, he left ...

The first time I heard Alfred Schnittke’s music was at children’s music school: it was his Suite in the Old Style, a fairly easy piece to play and understand, notably the Minuet. I remember that one ...

Alfred Schnittke's Penitential Psalms were written in 1988 for the 1,000th anniversary of the Christianisation of Russia. But the major reference point in these settings of anonymous 16th-century ...