Schnittke: Works For Violin and Piano

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…

Release Date: 5th Feb 2021
Catalogue No: 4839234
Label: DG
Length: 59 minutes

Presto Editor's Choice

February 2021
International Classical Music Awards

2022

Nominated - Chamber Music

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Schnittke: Suite in the Old Style

Work length15:02

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Daniel Hope (violin), Alexey Botvinov (piano)
Recorded: 2019-11-01
Recording Venue: Beethovenhaus, Bonn

I. Pastorale

Track length2:59

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II. Ballet

Track length2:14

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III. Minuet

Track length3:06

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IV. Fugue

Track length2:39

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V. Pantomime

Track length4:04

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Schnittke: Polka

Work length1:46

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Daniel Hope (violin), Alexey Botvinov (piano)
Recorded: 2019-11-01
Recording Venue: Beethovenhaus, Bonn

Schnittke: Tango (Arr. by Andriy Rakhmanin for Violin and Piano)

Work length3:00

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Daniel Hope (violin), Alexey Botvinov (piano)
Recorded: 2019-11-01
Recording Venue: Beethovenhaus, Bonn

Schnittke: Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano

Work length17:52

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Daniel Hope (violin), Alexey Botvinov (piano)
Recorded: 2019-11-01
Recording Venue: Beethovenhaus, Bonn

I. Andante

Track length2:47

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II. Allegretto

Track length4:55

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III. Largo

Track length5:17

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IV. Allegretto scherzando

Track length4:53

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Schnittke: Madrigal in memoriam Oleg Kagan for violin solo

Work length9:13

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Daniel Hope (violin)
Recorded: 2019-11-01
Recording Venue: Beethovenhaus, Bonn

Schnittke: Gratulationsrondo

Work length7:24

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Daniel Hope (violin), Alexey Botvinov (piano)
Recorded: 2019-11-01
Recording Venue: Beethovenhaus, Bonn

Schnittke: Stille Nacht for Violin & Piano

Work length4:46

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Daniel Hope (violin), Alexey Botvinov (piano)
Recorded: 2019-11-01
Recording Venue: Beethovenhaus, Bonn

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“In the summer of 1989, when I was 15, my ‘love affair’ with Alfred Schnittke’s music began”, recalls Daniel Hope. Three years later the violinist became acquainted with the Russian composer, studying with and performing for Schnittke many of his works over the next years. “A little more than 20 years after his death, I decided it was time to revisit his music and to pay a recorded tribute to his extraordinary talent. In my mind there is no more striking a talent in contemporary music than that of Alfred Schnittke.”

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April 2021

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.

May/June 2021

Hope and Botvinov offer distinctive accounts and demonstrate that this is music that benefits from performers who can project a musical personality. They are most successful in the First Sonata, which is the meat of this program.

March 2021

[in the Sonata] Hope never loses sight of the melodic line or makes the line seem more gesture than melody, as Lubotsky occasionally does. It’s quite a distinctive and subtly detailed view of a score that can easily come across as overly blunt…There’s a wealth of detail in Hope and Botvinov’s performance of the Suite in the Old Style, too.

February 2021

Hope’s love and understanding of every facet of Schnittke’s musical personality shines through in every bar of this compelling recital: the Suite in the Old Style is despatched with an almost rustic astringency, whilst the Tango from Agony is deliciously louche and the ‘wrong-note’ Stille Nacht unsettlingly beautiful. Perhaps the stand-out track for me, though, is the unaccompanied Madrigal in memoriam Oleg Kagan, played with the same introspective intensity which made his elegies for former owners of the Violins of Hope so affecting.

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