Capricorn - Schnittke: Chamber Music (1996)

Tracklist

01. Piano Quintet: I. Moderato
02. Piano Quintet: II. In tempo di Valse
03. Piano Quintet: III. Andante
04. Piano Quintet: IV. Lento
05. Piano Quintet: V. Moderato pastorale
06. 3 Madrigals: I. Sur une étoile
07. 3 Madrigals: II. Entfernung
08. 3 Madrigals: III. Reflection
09. Serenade: I. Senza tempo
10. Serenade: II. Lento
11. Serenade: III. Allegretto
12. String Trio: I. Moderato
13. String Trio: II. Adagio

The chamber works on this recording encompass a variety of instrumental groupings and a range of moods from the humour and lightness of the Serenade to the serious magnificence of the Piano Quintet, a five-movement ‘memorial’ developing the tradition of so great a work as Shostakovich’s single-movement work for this combination. The Three Madrigals set a three-language cycle of miniature poems by Francisco Tanzer, poems which themselves encapsulates much that is distinctively Schnittke through their epigrammatic atmosphere of cryptic completeness.

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