Schnittke: Chamber Music

CDA66885

Recording details: February 1996
All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Arthur Johnson
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: October 1996
Total duration: 68 minutes 35 seconds

‘Admirable performances of classic Schnittke’ (Classic CD)

‘Capricorn’s blazing performance of the Serenade is what really makes this disc a standout among recent Schnittke releases’ (Fanfare)

'Un trabajo absolutamente recomendable. Obligatorio' (CD Compact, Spain)

Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)

Chamber Music

Capricorn

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	MP3	FLAC	ALAC
	£2.95	£2.95	£2.95	Piano Quintet [23'49]
1	£0.65	£0.65	£0.65	Moderato [5'09]
2	£0.60	£0.60	£0.60	In tempo di Valse [4'56]
3	£0.75	£0.75	£0.75	Andante [5'51]
4	£0.55	£0.55	£0.55	Lento [4'33]
5	£0.40	£0.40	£0.40	Moderato pastorale [3'20]
	£1.00	£1.00	£1.00	Three Madrigals [8'16] Sarah Leonard (soprano)
6	£0.40	£0.40	£0.40	Sur une étoile Nous nous sommes [3'12]
7	£0.30	£0.30	£0.30	Entfernung Zwei Menschen trafen [2'32]
8	£0.30	£0.30	£0.30	Reflection Love transfered to outer space [2'32]
	£1.25	£1.25	£1.25	Serenade [10'00]
9	£0.35	£0.35	£0.35	Senza tempo [2'46]
10	£0.40	£0.40	£0.40	Lento [3'14]
11	£0.50	£0.50	£0.50	Allegretto [4'00]
	£3.30	£3.30	£3.30	Trio [26'30]
12	£1.70	£1.70	£1.70	Moderato [13'37]
13	£1.60	£1.60	£1.60	Adagio [12'53]

The chamber works on this recording encompass a variety of instrumental groupings and a range of moods from the humour and lightness of the Serenade to the serious magnificence of the Piano Quintet, a five-movement ‘memorial’ developing the tradition of so great a work as Shostakovich’s single-movement work for this combination. The Three Madrigals set a three-language cycle of miniature poems by Francisco Tanzer, poems which themselves encapsulates much that is distinctively Schnittke through their epigrammatic atmosphere of cryptic completeness.

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