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agony / alfred schnittke. 1974/1981
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998): Suite da concerto dalle musiche per il film Agony di Elem Klimov (1974/1981) — Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin diretta da Frank Strobel —
I. Eileitung
II. Walzer
III. Tango
IV. Finale
conversazione tra enzo restagno e alfred schnittke
dal sito di Laureto Rodoni:
https://www.rodoni.ch/A24/schnittke-interviste.pdf
https://slowforward.net/2026/08/15/conversazione-tra-enzo-restagno-e-alfred-schnittke/
conversazione tra enzo restagno e alfred schnittke
dal sito di Laureto Rodoni:
https://www.rodoni.ch/A24/schnittke-interviste.pdf
story of an unknown actor, op. 125 / alfred schnittke. 1976
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http://slowforward.net/2026/08/10/story-of-an-unknown-actor-op-125-alfred-schnittke-1976-2/
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story of an unknown actor, op. 125 / alfred schnittke. 1976
I – 0:00
II – 2:24
III – 4:40
IV – 6:20
V – 9:33
VI – 11:15
VII – 13:08
VIII – 15:04
IX – 16:05
X – 17:46
XI – 19:11 (waltz)
XII – 20:23
XIII – 22:30
“[…] In Schnittke’s 1976 score for the film The Story of an Unknown Actor, he employs a single trite and sentimental melody for almost all the music’s 12 scenes. A kind of Berliozian idée fixé, it follows our angst-plagued protagonist, an aging thespian in a small Siberian troupe; in its constantly changing color and mood, the theme charts the actor’s increasing anxiety and disenchantment. In this sense, Schnittke’s score is classic film music, efficiently appending itself to a plot through single symbolic device, and ‘sticking with it’.
But at the same time, the seams in Schnittke’s score show; the melody’s stylized, fake-Tchaikovsky ‘Russian’ pathos in its opening incarnation may strike some as impossibly sincere, its saccharine swagger and soaring scope mismatched to the banal manner of its construction; likewise, its style cannot eclipse its own pastiche-like stylization — later on, when fake-Tchaikovsky becomes fake-Rachmaninov, the faking itself is brought to the foreground, to the surface.
In a sense, however, this quality in Schnittke’s music (also endemic to his concert works) functions astonishingly well with the film at hand. Directed by Russian great Alexander Zarkhy, the film is fundamentally about disillusionment, the process of cracking the world of appearances and revealing the tragic depths. <Our unknown actor is a romantic in the best sense of word>, Zarkhy admitted, but ‘romantic’ is by no means an unambivalent term; as Schnittke’s score demonstrates, romanticism is synonymous with an alienation between appearances and actualities, in which promising surfaces might at any time fall away to reveal terrible depths. The allegorical strength of such a vision couldn’t have been lost on the Soviet intelligentsia of 1970s Russia”.
(Seth Brodsky, https://www.allmusic.com/composition/the-story-of-an-unknown-actor-film-score-mc0002458493)
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#AlfredSchnittke (#АльфредШнитке) 1934 –1998
#CelloConcerto No. 1 (1986)
I. Pesante. Moderato
II. Largo
III. Allegro vivace
IV. Largo
#USSRMinistryOfCultureOrchestra
#GennadyRozhdestvensky
(1986)
#classicalmusic #modernclassical #musik #music #musique #musica #Schnittke #Шнитке
my past and thoughts / alfred schnittke. 1973
Suite da concerto dalle musiche per il film My Past and Thoughts, di Alexander Herzen (1973)
I. Petersburg
II. Madonnen
III. Schatten
IV. Menuett
V. Das Ende der Revolution
VI. Trauriges Thema
VII. Wind
VIII. Cancan
IX. Finale
the glass harmonica / alfred schnittke
00:00 – The Musician and the Carillon
01:48 – Procession
03:12 – Faces, Flights, Pyramids
16:39 – The Awakening
the gogol suite / alfred schnittke. 1976
The Gogol Suite, first commissioned in 1976 as incidental music to a play, is only a minor work by the Russian polystylist composer, yet it is highly imaginative and includes some interesting orchestration, among other aspects. In it, one can find the usual musical quotes (for example, Beethoven’s 5th symphony in the Overture) but also many original themes.
00:00 – I. Overture – Allegro.
01:20 – II. Chichikov’s Childhood – Andantino.
03:39 – III. The Portrait.
11:01 – IV. The Overcoat – Andante.
13:20 – V. Ferdinand VIII
14:16 – VI. The Civil Servants – Allegro.
17:01 – VII. The Ball – Tempo di Valse.
23:34 – VIII. The Testament – Pesante.
(25:50 – Ukrainian Folk Song.)
choir concerto: 1. o pavelitel’ sushcheva fsevo (o master of all living) / alfred schnittke
Choir Concerto: I. O pavelitel’ sushcheva fsevo (“O Master of all living”) · USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir
Schnittke: Choir Concerto & 2 Small Organ Pieces
℗ 2015 CDK Music Classical
Released on: 2015-12-01
Choir: USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir
Conductor: Valery Polyansky
Composer: Alfred Schnittke
rikki-tikki-tavi / alfred schnittke. 1976
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Suite from the music for the Children's film by Alexander Sguridi (1976, arr. Frank Strobel, 2003)
http://slowforward.net/2026/07/19/rikki-tikki-tavi-alfred-schnittke-1976/
rikki-tikki-tavi / alfred schnittke. 1976
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Suite from the music for the Children’s film by Alexander Sguridi (1976, arr. Frank Strobel, 2003).
I. Title Music
II. Menace and Rescue [03:32]
III. Night [10:31]
IV. Legend [15:01]
V. Flight [15:59]
VI. Epilogue [20:50]
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin diretta da Frank Strobel.
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six preludes for piano / alfred schnittke. 1953-1954
http://slowforward.net/2026/07/17/six-preludes-for-piano-alfred-schnittke-1953-1954/
six preludes for piano / alfred schnittke. 1953-1954
No.1-3
I. Moderato
II. Presto
III. Lento
Drosostalitsa Moraiti, pianoforte.
Cover image: painting by Ciurlionis.
No.4-6
IV: Andante
V. Maestoso
VI. Fugue
Drosostalitsa Moraiti, pianoforte.
Cover image: painting by Ciurlionis.
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sport, sport, sport / alfred schnittke. 1970
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998): Sport, sport, sport, Suite from Music for satirical documentary by Elem Klimov (arr. Frank Strobel) (1970).
I. Title music – Interview
II. Greece – The Bath (Adagio – Presto) [01:42]
III. Future (Menuett) [08:09]
IV. Merchant Kalaschnikov’s Song (Allegro) [09:50]
V. Away fans (Menuett – Fuga – Allegro) [15:08]
VI. Modern sports: training – winner – finale [19:57]
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin diretta da Frank Strobel.
Cover image: una scena del film.
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Villa Musica: Zeitreise in die Romantik – Ramstein-Miesenbach
Im Konzert von Pianistin Silke Arenhaus zusammen mit Stipendiaten von Villa Musica dr…
#Wiesbaden #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #AlfredSchnittke #AyakaTaniguchi #FranzLiszt #Germany #GustavMahler #Hessen #JohannesBrahms #Kaiserslautern #lokal #Ramstein #Ramstein-Miesenbach #RichardWagner #Romantik #SilkeArenhaus #SilkeAvenhaus #Zeitreise
https://www.europesays.com/de/875306/
https://www.europesays.com/de/875306/ Villa Musica: Zeitreise in die Romantik – Ramstein-Miesenbach #AlfredSchnittke #AyakaTaniguchi #DE #Deutschland #EU #Europa #Europe #FranzLiszt #Germany #GustavMahler #Headlines #Hessen #JohannesBrahms #Kaiserslautern #lokal #Nachrichten #News #Ramstein #RamsteinMiesenbach #RichardWagner #Romantik #Schlagzeilen #SilkeArenhaus #SilkeAvenhaus #Wiesbaden #Zeitreise
moz-art à la haydn / alfred schnittke
DELIRIUM MUSICUM plays Schnittke Moz-Art à la Haydn @ Wende Museum, Los Angeles, December 2018 – http://www.deliriummusicum.com
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#AlfredSchnittke (#АльфредШнитке) 1934 –1998
"Hymn II" for Cello and Double Bass (1974)
#AlexanderIvashkin #Cello
#ValeryBarcalkin #DoubleBass
#classicalmusic #modernclassical #musik #music #musique #musica #Schnittke #Шнитке
#AlfredSchnittke (#АльфредШнитке) 1934 –1998
#ViolaConcerto, Op. 189 (1985)
I. Largo∙
II. Allegro molto
III. Largo
#WarsawPhilharmonic ∙
#DmitriKitayenko ∙
#classicalmusic
#modernclassical
#musik #music #musique #musica #Schnittke #Шнитке
#AlfredSchnittke (#АльфредШнитке) 1934 –1998
'Musica Nostalgica' for Cello and Piano, Op. 228 (1992)
#ZoltanCsikos, #Cello
#AlinaSarkisyanBennett, #Piano
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#modernclassical
#musik #music #musique #musica #Schnittke #Шнитке
#AlfredSchnittke (#АльфредШнитке) 1934 –1998
#CelloConcerto n.1 (1986)
1 Pesante. Moderato
2 Largo
3 Allegro vivace
4. Largo
#USSRMinistryOfCultureOrchestra, #GennadyRozhdestvensky
rec 1986
#classicalmusic
#modernclassical
#musik #music #musique #musica #Schnittke #Шнитке
Give this album a listen: Paul Hindemith – Alfred Schnittke
https://open.spotify.com/album/0cUeJLWAnzUbKYCYm75sSA?si=YM0R9Z0DTVeg7DRrXzgf-A
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#AnnaGourari
#AlfredSchnittke
#PaulHindemith
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#Symphony No. 3 (1981)
1, Moderato
2, Allegro
3, Allegro pesante
4, Adagio
#StockholmPhilharmonicOrchestra
#EriKlas -
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#modernclassical
#musik #music #musique #musica #Schnittke #Шнитке
#music #SilentNight #AlfredSchnittke
Alfred Schnittke - Stille Nacht (Silent Night) for Violin and Piano (1978)
Schnittke's dissonant version of "Stille Nacht" by Franz Xaver Gruber, composed for violinist Gidon Kremer.
Scandalous!
#music #SilentNight #AlfredSchnittke
Alfred Schnittke - Stille Nacht (Silent Night) for Violin and Piano (1978)
Schnittke's dissonant version of "Stille Nacht" by Franz Xaver Gruber, composed for violinist Gidon Kremer.
Scandalous!
#music #SilentNight #AlfredSchnittke
Alfred Schnittke - Stille Nacht (Silent Night) for Violin and Piano (1978)
Schnittke's dissonant version of "Stille Nacht" by Franz Xaver Gruber, composed for violinist Gidon Kremer.
Scandalous!
Alfred Schnittke: Concerto grosso No. 2 (1982)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ME7I_VDw4rs&feature=share
@classicalmusic
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Ning Feng violin; Thomas Hoppe piano - Live at Wigmore Hall
https://youtube.com/live/kzT6N_sxLjA?feature=share
@classicalmusic
#ManuelDeFalla
#AlfredSchnittke
#SergeyProkofiev
#ErichWolfgangKorngold
#NingFeng
#ThomasHoppe
Alexander Mitta
"Клоуны и Дети" (1976)/
[Clowns and children]
/Score by
#AlfredSchnittke 1934 –1998
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#modernclassical
#musik #music #musique #musica #Schnittke #Шнитке
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Clowns and children (1976)
/Score to the Alexander Mitta film "Клоуны и Дети" (1976)/
#RundfunkSinfonieorchesterBerlin #FrankStrobel
#classicalmusic
#modernclassical
#musik #music #musique #musica #Schnittke #Шнитке
