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Schnittke - Chamber Music Vol.2 | Atma Classique ACD22669

Schnittke - Chamber Music Vol.2

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Label: Atma Classique

Cat No: ACD22669

Barcode: 0722056266925

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 11th March 2013

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Contents

Artists

Louise Bessette (piano)
Molinari Quartet

Works

Schnittke, Alfred

Piano Quartet
Piano Quintet, op.108
String Trio

Artists

Louise Bessette (piano)
Molinari Quartet

About

Alfred Schnittke’s chamber music comprises a dozen works which include four string quartets (released in 2011 by Atma with Molinari Quartet, Chamber Music vol.1 ACD22634), as well as the three works featured on this volume 2.

Schnittke was a great admirer of Mahler. In 1988, he based his own Piano Quartet on Mahler’s chamber music sketches. Schnittke dedicated the Quartet to the Ukrainian violinist Oleh (Oleg) Krysa, one of the musicians who had premiered his Trio.

Schnittke’s String Trio was commissioned by the Alban Berg Society of Vienna to commemorate the centenary of the Austrian composer’s birth in 1985. His Quintet can be thought of as a kind of heir to the one Shostakovich had composed in 1940. Its five movements create a sort of instrumental Requiem dominated by a cyclical theme of five notes and by the imitation of Russian church bells.

Internationally acclaimed by the public and the critics since its foundation in 1997, the Molinari Quartet has established a mandate to perform works from the 20th and 21st centuries, repertoire for string quartet, and to commission new works. Recipients of 14 Opus Prizes awarded by the Quebec Music Council, the Molinari Quartet is described by the critics as "Canada's answer to the Kronos or Arditti Quartet".

Molinari Quartet:
- Olga Ranzenhofer, first violin
- Frédéric Bednarz, second violin
- Frédéric Lambert, viola
- Pierre-Alain Bouvrette, cello

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