Schnittke: Symphony No. 6/ Concerto grosso No. 2 Orchestral & Concertos Russian Chandos

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With two fine soloists in the Concerto grosso, this is a must for collectors of Chandos Schnittke series, and a welcome reminder of one of the later 20th-centurys most distinctive and troubling musical voices.

Gramophone

Certainly these works are both vital pieces in the post-modern jigsaw of Schnittkes output, and these Chandos performances are at least as good as, if not better than, the rival versions on BIS. Tatiana Gridenko (one of the first Soviet advocates of Schnittkes music) and Alexander Ivashkin (his biographer) bring an air of authority and commitment to the Concerto grosso while Valeri Polyansky gives the internal tensions of the Symphony a razors edge.

BBC Music Magazine

'…it's just that the new recording, supervised by Polyansky himself, reproduces the orchestral detail in such superior sound that it's an automatic first choice. Add the fact that Gridenko and Ivashkin (a friend of Schnittke and his biographer) give superb accounts of their solo parts, with fine support from Polyansky's Russian musicians, and it's a clincher'

Fanfare (USA)

Throughout this disc, the echt-Russian timbres of Valeri Polyansky's band have a compulsion of their own, empowering what rhetoric there is with what seems like the appropriate clout.'

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