Composer: Alfred Schnittke
Performer: Molinari Quartet
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: ATMA
Release: 2011
Size: 1.72 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Quatuor no. 3
01. Andante
02. Agitato
03. Pesante
Quatuor no. 1
04. Sonata
05. Canon
06. Cadenza
Quatuor no. 2
07. Moderato
08. Agitato
09. Mesto
10. Moderato
CD 02
Quatuor no. 4
11. Lento
12. Allegro
13. Lento
14. Vivace
15. Lento
Canon in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky
16. Lento
Recorded: Salle de concert du Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, (Québec), Canada, June 2010
Between 1966 and 1989, Alfred Schnittke composed four string quartets. In 1971 he added the Canon in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky to his works for string quartet, and in 1997, Variations. For almost half a century, Schnittke composed more than 250 works—from opera and chamber music to film music and concertos. While drawing inspiration from the past and exploring the many aesthetic characteristics of his day, he forged a personal musical language he called polystylistic. Internationally acclaimed by the public and the critics since its foundation in 1997, the Molinari Quartet has a mandate to perform works from the 20th and 21st centuries, to commission new works and to initiate conversations between musicians, artists and the public.