Schnittke: Works for Violin and Piano

Schnittke: Works for Violin and Piano

00028948392346 (Deutsche Grammophon, CD)

NEW RELEASE (5 February 2021)
Tracks: 14
Booklet pages: 20
℗ 2021 Daniel Hope
© 2021 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Main country of recording: Germany
Reviewer: Geoff Pearce
Review of Schnittke: Works for Violin and Piano published on 20 March 2021

Daniel Hope, violin
Alexey Botvinov, piano

Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998):

1-5 Suite in the Old Style

6 Polka after 'The Overcoat' from Gogol Suite, arranged for violin and piano

7 Tango from the music to the film Agony by Elem Klimov, arranged for violin and piano by Andriy Rakhmanin

8-11 Sonata for Violin and Piano No 1

12 Madrigal in memoriam Oleg Kagan, for solo violin

13 Congratulatory Rondo

14 Silent Night, on motives of Franz Xaver Gruber's Christmas carol

Recorded in October and November 2019 at the Beethovenhaus, Bonn, Germany