Schnittke: Concerto Grosso I/Pärt: Tabula Rasa/Görecki: Concerto

On this CD:

1. Concerto Grosso No.1, for 2 violins, harpsichord, prepared piano & 21 strings
Composed by Alfred Schnittke
Performed by I Musici de Montreal , Eleonora Turovsky, Natalya Turovsky

2. Tabula rasa, concerto for 2 violins (or violin & viola), prepared piano & string orchestra
Composed by Arvo Part
Performed by I Musici de Montreal , Eleonora Turovsky, Natalya Turovsky

3. Concerto for harpsichord (or piano) & orchestra, Op. 40 Harpsichord Version
Composed by Henryk Gorecki
Performed by I Musici de Montreal , Catherine Perrin, Eleonora Turovsky, Natalya Turovsky

Schnittke: Concerto Grosso I/Pärt: Tabula Rasa/Görecki: Concerto, Music, Henryk Gorecki, Arvo Part, Alfred Schnittke, I Musici de Montréal, Catherine Perrin, Eleonora Turovsky, Natalya Turovsky, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Concerto, Concerto Grosso, Concerto for Two String Instruments, Harpsichord Concerto
Schnittke: Concerto Grosso I/Pärt: Tabula Rasa/Görecki: Concerto
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Interesting Program, Fine Recording
  • The Schnittke's a modern classic; the others are OK
 Schnittke: Concerto Grosso I/Pärt: Tabula Rasa/Görecki: Concerto

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000B22
Release Date: 1998-01-20

Tracks:

  1. Concerto Grosso No. 1: I. Preludio: Andante
  2. Concerto Grosso No. 1: II. Toccata: Allegro
  3. Concerto Grosso No. 1: III. Recitativo: Lento
  4. Concerto Grosso No. 1: IV. Cadenza
  5. Concerto Grosso No. 1: V. Rondo: Agitato
  6. Concerto Grosso No. 1: VI. Postludio: Andante
  7. TABULA RASA: I. Ludus: Con moto
  8. TABULA RASA: II. Silentium: Senza moto
  9. Concerto For Harpsichord And Strings: I. Allegro molto
  10. Concerto For Harpsichord And Strings: II. Vivace marcatissimo

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Interesting Program, Fine Recording.......2003-11-04

This disc of Schnittke, Part, and Gorecki is surprisingly good. I got it mainly to have 'Tabula Rasa' in a congenial setting, and that is just what I received. The most challenging and ambitious work on the disc is Schnittke's 'Concerto Grosso #1'. It summarizes western music in an intriguing and entertaining way. As it finishes, 'Tabula Rasa' almost seems to be another part of that work. Only gradually do you notice that the atmosphere has grown serene. After the Part piece fades into silence, Gorecki puts the cap on the program with his curious little 'Concerto For Harpsichord and Strings'. At 8 min. it is the shortest work (each of the others is nearly 1/2 hr.). Each of its 2 movements, which are essentially fast and faster, is 4 min. In the first, the harpsichord plays a fast, gradually mutating toccata, while the strings play a slower, minor-key, gradually mutating melody line over it. The movement suddenly ends with a major chord. The next movement is in a relentless marcatissimo rhythm, which at first seems like an accompaniment to a silent comedy, then like a Bernard Hermann/Hitchcock score, then like a Shostakovich race to the finish, closed off with a baroque flourish. Turovsky's group does a fine job all around, and the recording is very good. What's not to like?

3 out of 5 stars The Schnittke's a modern classic; the others are OK.......1999-12-08

It's pretty funny that the writer of the liner notes for this disc works so hard to equate the projects of Gorecki, Part, and Schnittke. Schnittke's Concerto Grosso No.1 was a major event in modern music, a breakthrough from a great composer. Schnittke's post-modernism, or polystylism, is not just a gimmick. He puts the music of the past and present to use for conveying a profound, if anguished, vision of life. The Gorecki Harpsichord Concerto is a nothing, practically--short and uninteresting. The Part, well--it's slow, tonal, mystical. Really not very compelling as music, but for some perhaps an aid to meditation. Gorecki and Part are both worlds apart from Schnittke, though. Not that I wouldn't recommend this disc--you get a major work combined with two works that at least have a historical value (as examples of the strange popularity of minimalism).

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