'I have read all of Alfred's articles with enormous interest and enjoyment...[He] had such a profound insight into the music of other composers, and ...he found in it so many regular features that were hidden from others' - Mstislav Rostropovich, in the Preface. The compositions of Alfred Schnittke [...]
This biography of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke (born in 1934) presents a portrait of a man whose musical input has been inextricably linked to the strictures of life in the Soviet Union. His music, as a reflection of Russian cultural and social traditions, as well as mentality, enjoys treme[...]
Izdanie soderzhit tri pesy vydajuschegosja kompozitora KHKh veka, kotorye mozhno nazvat tvorcheskimi poslanijami avtora k svoim predshestvennikam - Paganini, Motsartu i Shostakovichu. V etikh sochinenijakh, nasyschennykh muzykalnoj ekspressiej, Shnitke masterski ispolzuet vsju palitru tekhnicheskikh[...]
K. Volkov. Canticle by Ivan the Terrible for Cello and Bayan*A. Zhurbin. Sonata No. 3 «Promenade in Moscow Neskuchny Garden» for Bayan A. Schnittke. Polka. Arranged for Bayan by F. LipsN. Paganini ? F. Liszt. La Campanella. Transcription by F. Lips (on F. Busoni's arrangement)*Ed. by Friedrich Lip[...]