Schnittke | Viola Concerto · Trio Sonata

Yuri Bashmet · Moscow Soloists · London Symphony Orchestra · Mstislav Rostropovich

The Soviet composer Alfred Schnittke wrote his Viola Concerto in 1985 for Yuri Bashmet, whose magnetic musical personality seems to inform much of the content. The letters of the violist`s surname in fact play a motivic role in the sometimes expressionist scenario, with its bleak and withdrawn murmurings giving way to violent, pastiche-like gestures (Mahler and Vivaldi are the composers most prominently evoked). Bashmet`s string-orchestra arrangement of Schnittke`s 1985 String Trio may be less persuasive, but the reading is also first-rate.

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