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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…

Release Date: 10th May 2004
Catalogue No: STR33675
Label: Stradivarius
Length: 75 minutes

Schnittke: Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano

Work length16:06

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Francesco D'Orazio (violin), Giampaolo Nuti (piano)
Recorded: 2003

Violin Sonata No. 1, I. Andante

Track length2:26

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Violin Sonata No. 1, II. Allegretto

Track length4:59

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Violin Sonata No. 1, III. Largo

Track length3:48

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Violin Sonata No. 1, IV. Allegretto

Track length4:53

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Excerpt, Schnittke: Sonata No. 2 (Quasi una Sonata) for violin and piano

Work length20:01

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Francesco D'Orazio (violin), Giampaolo Nuti (piano)
Recorded: 2003

Schnittke: Suite in the Old Style

Work length14:07

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Francesco D'Orazio (violin), Giampaolo Nuti (piano)
Recorded: 2003

Suite in the Old Style: I. Pastorale

Track length3:06

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Suite in the Old Style: II. Ballett

Track length2:10

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Suite in the Old Style: III. Menuett

Track length2:54

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Suite in the Old Style: IV. Fuge

Track length2:13

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Suite in the Old Style: V. Pantomime

Track length3:44

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Schnittke: Grantulationsrondo

Work length8:10

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Francesco D'Orazio (violin), Giampaolo Nuti (piano)
Recorded: 2003

Schnittke: Stille Nacht for Violin & Piano

Work length4:17

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Francesco D'Orazio (violin), Giampaolo Nuti (piano)
Recorded: 2003

Schnittke: Sonata No. 3 for violin & piano

Work length12:39

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Francesco D'Orazio (violin), Giampaolo Nuti (piano)
Recorded: 2003

Violin Sonata No. 3, I. Andante

Track length1:37

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Violin Sonata No. 3, II. Allegro molto

Track length4:08

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Violin Sonata No. 3, III. Adagio

Track length4:42

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Violin Sonata No. 3, IV. Senza tempo

Track length2:12

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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 freedom and desperate illness. The three sonatas and three other works chart Schnittke's sad but heroic decline, as he confronted head-on the special 20th-century challenge of composing from the heart as well as from a sense of history.
The First Sonata (1963) is probably the best of the six compositions. There's already plenty of that sardonic, to-hell-with-it manner he made his own, but his willingness to grapple with the possibilities of well-made instrumental design and to admit a sense of pathos that didn't exclude touches of understatement, make for a memorable 15 minutes. By comparison, the Second Sonata (1968) is more slapdash, not polystylistic enough to engineer the surreal confrontations of his most powerful exercises in bringing old and new into collision, its climactic bashings-out of a minor triad as dated as they are annoying. In the third sonata (1994) the earlier energy hasn't totally drained away, and the poignancy of a musical voice facing its own imminent extinction still gets through. Hearing this after the winsome pastiche of the Suite inOld Style, the po-faced Mozartisms of the Gratulationsrondo, and the crude but unfailingly shudder-making deconstruction of Stille Nacht is moving, with its hints of what might have been had Schnittke lived in more stable times.
Francesco d'Orazio, as recorded here, doesn't have the full-bodied tone and blazingly forthright rhetoric of a Russian violinist like Mark Lubotsky, for whom Schnittke composed. But he shapes the sonatas well, and has strong support from Giampaolo Nuti.

Alfred Schnittke - Complete Works for Violin & Piano

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