AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
A Schnittke Reader. .(Book Review)
A Schnittke Reader. By Alfred Schnittke. Edited by Alexander Ivashkin. Translated by John Goodliffe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. [xxv, 258 p. 0-253-3318-2. $45]. Music examples, illustrations, chronology, index.
If A Schnittke Reader had been published in the Soviet Union it would probably have been called something like Alfred Schnitthe: Articles, Reminiscences, and Materials, a title that would have better reflected its contents. Like many similarly titled Soviet books, it is a generally celebratory miscellany of recollections and articles by and about its subject rather than an introductory volume of representative articles about the composer. ...
- Alfred Schnittke. (composer)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) August 15, 1998 700+ words
...need for better housing shaped Alfred Schnittke's marvellous music. He and his wife...television in the same room. The young Schnittke family just had to have a bigger flat...composers, but this avenue was closed to Mr Schnittke. A few years earlier he had vexed the...
- SCHNITTKE'S STYLE MARKED BY SHIFTS IN MOOD
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff March 21, 1988 700+ words
MUSIC OF ALFRED SCHNITTKE -- Presented by "Making Music Together...Saturday. In the Soviet Union, Alfred Schnittke is generally viewed as the most important...His colleague Sofia Gubaidulina says Schnittke's audience is at least as large as...
- SCHNITTKE SYMPHONY HAS US PREMIERE AT BSO
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff March 25, 1988 700+ words
...Together," the American premiere of Alfred Schnittke's hour-long First Symphony, a work...only about the iconoclastic elements of Schnittke's work is to misrepresent him -- it...music his ear heard and that he liked. Schnittke's purpose is a little different: He...
- Symphonies shine on works by Gorecki, Schnittke
- Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) Edward Reichel Deseret News August 30, 2009 700+ words
...CONDUCTOR, DRESDNER PHILHARMONIE; Schnittke, Symphony No. 9; Raskatov, "Nunc...20th century Russian composers, Alfred Schnittke is nevertheless barely known in the United States. Schnittke certainly deserves better exposure in...
- PROMS Bruckner; Schnittke Rozhdestvensky / BBC SO Royal Albert Hall, London
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Robert Cowan August 3, 1996 700+ words
...Second Symphony to the brazen horseplay of Schnittke's Dead Souls must have courage to spare...Rozhdestvensky's own arrangement of Schnittke's 1983 score for a TV film based on...their minds: no wonder they took to Schnittke's fun and games with such relish.
- AUSTRIA. Lockenhaus. 1988. Russian composer Alfred SCHNITTKE, left, at the...
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Erich Hartmann January 1, 1988 700+ words
...Lockenhaus. 1988. Russian composer Alfred SCHNITTKE, left, at the Lockenhaus Music Festival...Lockenhaus. 1988. Russian composer Alfred SCHNITTKE, left, at the Lockenhaus Music Festival...Lockenhaus. 1988. Russian composer Alfred SCHNITTKE, left, at the Lockenhaus Music Festival...
- Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony; Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings....
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John January 1, 2001 700+ words
Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony; Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings. Constantine Orbelian, pianist...or triumphant ending. Following the Chamber Symphony with Schnittke's Piano Concerto, performed by Orbelian himself, is the...
- Shostakovich Dmitri: Chamber Symphony; Alfred Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound August 1, 2001 700+ words
Shostakovich, Dmitri: Chamber Symphony; Alfred Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings. Moscow Chamber Orchestra...reverb, than straight DPL decoding. The piano in the Schnittke piece was placed slightly left of center with an decoding...
Source: HighBeam Research, A Schnittke Reader. .(Book Review)