Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)

[Lethevich]

DO IT !!!

Edit: Oh gee, master out the out-of-context top-of-new-page posts strikes again.

[Mirror Image]

My excuse: I simply haven't listened to it yet.

Sarge

I think you'll dig it, Sarge. Do you own the recording of it?

[Sergeant Rock]

I think you'll dig it, Sarge. Do you own the recording of it?

I do. Klas. I think it was Lethe who suggested it. I've had it for months.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

DO IT !!!

Are you suggesting something naughty? 

Sarge

[Mirror Image]

I do. Klas. I think it was Lethe who suggested it. I've had it for months.

Sarge

GO LISTEN TO IT NOW!!!!

[Karl Henning]

 Quote from: Sergeant Rock on Today at 09:13:06 PM

I do. Klas. I think it was Lethe who suggested it. I've had it for months.

Sarge

 
(* raises hand, too *)

[Sergeant Rock]

GO LISTEN TO IT NOW!!!!

I wish I could. But it's late here and I've had one too many scotch and sodas. Time for bed. I'll give it a listen tomorrow...if I can find it. It's in one of my unlistened-to CD piles...somewhere    I am in the mood for more Schnittke. Mrs. Rock had the Faust Cantata on repeat all evening. Great piece.

Sarge

[Mirror Image]

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on Today at 09:13:06 PM

I do. Klas. I think it was Lethe who suggested it. I've had it for months.

Sarge

 
(* raises hand, too *)

Karl, do you use the "toggle view" button when you post?

[eyeresist]

A button I have never used...

[Mirror Image]

I wish I could. But it's late here and I've had one too many scotch and sodas. Time for bed. I'll give it a listen tomorrow...if I can find it. It's in one of my unlistened-to CD piles...somewhere    I am in the mood for more Schnittke. Mrs. Rock had the Faust Cantata on repeat all evening. Great piece.

Sarge

You make this ol' Southerner proud.

[not edward]

Yup. Peer Gynt is a monster for sure, the bastard stepson of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and Mahler's symphonies, with guest genes from the act 3 Tristan prelude and others. The first two acts are IMO eminently danceable music and then things go really weird ... just as they do in Ibsen's play.

Great piece and one of Schnittke's best; I only didn't mention it as it is technically a stage work. It's also--despite its sprawling nature--a very tightly constructed work with in fact very little thematic material. One of the reasons why the funeral scene in act 3 is so shocking is that (if I'm not very much mistaken, and when it comes to musical analysis I usually am!) it's the first new material brought into the work in over an hour.

Oh, and the liner notes in the BIS recording might just be the best and most informative ones I've ever seen.

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Oh, and the liner notes in the BIS recording might just be the best and most informative ones I've ever seen.

Yes, the booklet is informative and most definitely value added. Only enhances my appreciation for the work.

[Karl Henning]

 Quote from: Mirror Image on Today at 09:22:25 PM

Karl, do you use the "toggle view" button when you post?

 
Sometimes. (Not in these two cases, for instance.)

[Karl Henning]

Karl, do you use the "toggle view" button when you post?

And this is straight "Quick Reply."

[Karl Henning]

Go figure.

[Mirror Image]

Go figure.

Yes, Karl. Very strange.

[Karl Henning]

And yet … they all look the same in Tapatalk

[snyprrr]

No love for the 3rd symphony?

I think it's his most integrated and serious Symphony. Very gloomy. Me likey!!

[Karl Henning]

Extra gloom for the gentleman at table 4, Gaston!

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Extra gloom for the gentleman at table 4, Gaston!