Elgar & Schnittke
Viola Concertos
David Aaron Carpenter, viola · Philharmonia Orchestra · Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
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Alfred Schnittke
Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra
Violin Concerto No. 3 · Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano
Mark Lubotsky, violin
Irina Schnittke, piano
Virtuosi di Kuhmo
Ralf Gothóni, piano & conductor
Track listing
8 tracks · 59:49Alfred Schnittke
- 1 Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra 20:25
- Violin Concerto No. 3 25:32
- 2 I. Moderato 9:15
- 3 II. Agitato 5:49
- 4 III. Andante 10:28
- Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano 13:52
- 5 I. Andante 1:37
- 6 II. Allegro (molto) 3:56
- 7 III. Adagio 5:44
- 8 IV. Senza tempo 2:35
Features
Booklet with liner notes in English, German, French and Finnish
The artists
Mark Lubotsky
The violinist Mark Lubotsky was born in Leningrad (today: St. Petersburg) and studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Abraham Yampolsky and David Oistrakh. Lubotsky won prizes in several international competitions, including the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition, and appeared from an early age as a soloist with leading orchestras in the Soviet Union and Western Europe. He has performed at many notable international music festivals in Europe, the United States and Japan. Commanding an extensive classical-romantic repertoire, Lubotsky has also focused intensely on contemporary music, working closely with his personal friends Benjamin Britten, Alfred Schnittke and Arvo Pärt. Schnittke dedicated his three violin sonatas and the second violin concerto to Lubotsky, who is also an eloquent advocate of the recently rediscovered Russian avantgarde composer Nikolai Roslavets.
Irina Schnittke
Born in Leningrad, the pianist Irina Schnittke started her music studies at the age of six at the Leningrad Conservatory, and eventually graduated from the Gnesin Music Institute in Moscow. Her teachers were Anna Shklovskaya, Yakov Flier and Leonid Brumberg. Irina Schnittke's repertoire covers the major 20th-century Russian composers from Shostakovich and Prokofiev to Sviridov, Slonimski, Tischenko, Gavrilin, Chalayev, Gabelli and Alfred Schnittke, whom she married in 1961. Alfred Schnittke dedicated the Variationen über einen Akkord (1965) and the Piano Sonata No. 2 (1992) to his wife. Irina Schnittke has gained an international reputation for her interpretations of these and other works by her husband. Since 1984 she has formed a piano duo together with Viktoria Postnikova. Together with Mark Lubotsky, she premièred in 1994 the Violin Sonata No. 3 (dedicated to Lubotsky) in Moscow.
Virtuosi di Kuhmo
Virtuosi di Kuhmo was founded in 1992 to continue the traditions of the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival's orchestra. At present, Virtuosi di Kuhmo is an independent ensemble with its own organization and artistic planning. Orchestra members range from musicians in top-rated Finnish orchestras to artists pursuing international careers.
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