The Schnittke Concerto for Piano and Strings was recorded in October 2020 at Cleveland's Severance Hall during the Covid-19 pandemic. It features pianist Yefim Bronfman with the Orchestra's strings, ...

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 ...

Up until the early 1970s, Alfred Schnittke, who after Shostakovich took the next step in Russian music, coped with his times by rebellion, compliance and by extolling the crazy world he lived in. He ...

VATICAN, APRIL 6, ARMENPRESS. Composer Alfred Schnittke's ConcertoforMixedChorus in classical Armenian version (Grabar) was performed for the first time in Vatican on April 5. He composed the Concerto ...

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 ...

The National Symphony Orchestra had to split time between soloists this weekend, with Alisa Weilerstein yielding to violist David Aaron Carpenter on Friday night so that he and the orchestra could ...

Although the main focus of this new album is the pair of Hindemith works, it is arguably the Schnittke Concerto that dominates attention. Written in 1979, it is a viscerally exciting, compellingly ...

For the late Russian-German composer Alfred Schnittke, musical history was no nightmare to awaken from but a lovely dream that kept receding from his grasp the more he tried to recapture it. Like much ...

Philip Glass: Violin Concerto; Alfred Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 5 for Violin, Invisible Piano and Orchestra. Gidon Kremer, violin; Vienna Philharmonic, Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor (DG). A ...

Composers over the centuries have utilized music written by their predecessors as building blocks in their own works, whether Brahms’s “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” Mozart’s “Variations on a Theme ...