Schnittke - Gratulationsrondo

Over 20 years after his death, Schnittke’s musical games are as potent and jolting as they ever were, and Hope and Botvinov take up their challenges with wonderful verve and conviction. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mints and Katya Apekisheva are passionate and dedicated guides to Schnittke’s expressive landscapes as they evolve from late-Shostakovian grimaces to polystylistic melanges of neo-Baroque stylisation... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2016 More…

Schnittke's music for violin and piano spans most of his composing career, from the early 1960s, when Shostakovich's genius and Soviet ideology both loomed large, to the mid-1990s, a time of... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…