Alfred Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings, part 1

Alfred Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings, part 1

Omsk Organ Hall April 9, 2003, Russia

Svetlana Ponomarëva Piano

Yuri Nikolaevsky Conductor

Omsk Chamber Orchestra

"On April 9, 2003, Omsk newly renovated Organ Hall saw the last concert Yuri Nikolaevsky conducted. A personal friend of Alfred Schnittke, he had worked with Schnittke at Mosfilm for many years. There the composer was writing film music, testing his ideas for his most ambitious works. When the Director of the Omsk Chamber Orchestra arranged to have Nikolaevsky fly from Moscow to Omsk especially to conduct the Concerto for Piano & Strings with Svetlana Ponomarëva as the soloist, we felt honored and we knew the maestro was on a mission, to serve his friend's music wherever it would take him. (...)"

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• Schnittke
• Classical
• Piano
• Svetlana
• Nikolaevsky
• Omsk
• Orchestra

[wrexony]

a great performance of my favourite Schnittke piece. A pity the camera wondered off the pianists hands at the crucial chords.

[pianistvesta]

Thank you!

[ibanezmonsterg]

I love this concerto!

Too bad the sound isn't the best, though, because i'd love to hear it more clearly......

but thanks for posting this! :)

[1NVK1]

It is unbelievable, transcendent and so beautiful...

Svetlana, your playing is really amazing! I am your fan from now on...

[MusicaFerrum]

Mr. Anastassiou paid homage to Schnittke in his interemezzo for solo piano... (on 5:20 to the linked video).

[islespatrick]

If I met Schnittke.....I would literally die 3 times and then be brought back to life. Then make music reflecting that XD

[musicalidea]

This is 1 of the greatest works written in the last quarter of the 20th Century, in my opinion. Can anyone really explain Schnittke's genius for those unspeakably odd bass tones below the augmented wandering of the piano during the prolonged cadenza? Amazing = * when the orchestra finally enters with those plodding triads at 4:35 juxtaposed against the crashing tone clusters. * The rapid alteration of "clean" tonal triumphs in the strings @ 5:12 w those wrenching, angular semitones. * much more

[oscarpaiz79]

hermosa composicion.....

[1NVK1]

Very interesting. Thanks.

[TheGreatDissolve]

I do not wish to turn this into an astrology discussion, as dignified as it is, because I see that we've received to thumbs down by a person who is either against astrology or simply doesn't want to detract from the topic of music, and the lovely pianist. Nevertheless, the great Schnittke appears to have Capricorn Rising, with the Moon and Venus (planets having to do with rites of purification and the gathering of crowds) as masters of his nativity. Hellenistic.....

[1NVK1]

Well, I've tried but I don't know his time of birth :)

However, as I see it, astrology can hardly help here. We can reveal native talents of a man using astrology, we may even try to "prove" some features of music of a composer. But the mystery of music will remain untold. The effect it takes is absent in horoscope...

[TheGreatDissolve]

You just have to look at his astrology chart to understand.