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Schnittke Edition - Symphony No. 0, Nagasaki | BIS BISCD1647

Schnittke Edition - Symphony No. 0, Nagasaki

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISCD1647

Barcode: 7318590016473

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 29th May 2006

Contents

Artists

Hanneli Rupert (mezzo-soprano)
Cape Town Opera Voice of the Nation
Cape Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Owain Arwel Hughes

Works

Schnittke, Alfred

Nagasaki
Symphony no.0

Artists

Hanneli Rupert (mezzo-soprano)
Cape Town Opera Voice of the Nation
Cape Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Owain Arwel Hughes

About

The BIS Schnittke Edition now numbers 24 titles and it is with particular pride that we with this instalment add to it the last – or rather the first – of this iconic composer’s 9 completed symphonies. He composed Symphony No. 0 while still a student at the Moscow Conservatory, and it was only performed once during his lifetime, by the conservatory orchestra and with Dmitri Shostakovich in the audience. The influence of Shostakovich – which Schnittke himself willingly acknowledged – is audible, but also that of Myaskovsky and the great Russian Romantics, as well as Paul Hindemith and Carl Orff. 
 
In the opinion of cellist and Schnittke expert Alexander Ivashkin, who has written the liner notes to this release, the oratorio Nagasaki (1958) remains “one of Schnittke’s most powerful compositions. In spite of many obvious elements taken from Orff’s style, Schnittke’s music speaks in its own language, which is a highly imaginative and original one.” Nagasaki calls for a very large orchestra as well as a choir and is in fact one of the largest orchestral settings in all of Schnittke’s music. On the recommendation of Shostakovich, the work was broadcast in 1959 on Moscow World Service Radio, but it never received a public performance until November 2006 at the first Cape Town International Summer Music Festival, performed by the interpreters on this disc. 
 
Owain Arwel Hughes will be known to BIS followers for his highly acclaimed recordings of the orchestral music of Rachmaninov and Holmboe, but the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra is making its début on BIS with this exciting release.
 
Both works are world premiere recordings.

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