Rodion Konstantinowitsch Schtschedrin

Strongly influenced by Russian Impressionism this concerto can also be performed with a small string ensemble. A recent recording by the young Russian virtuoso Maxim Vengerow with conductor Mstislav R...

Zum 300. Geburtstag von Johann Sebastian Bach. Für Violine solo

Entrambi i movimenti esplorano le sonorità specifiche del flauto dolce. Il primo movimento è prevalentemente lirico, mentre il secondo è molto ritmico e dominato da effetti percussivi.

Ursprünglich für den International Cello Congress 2005, 1000 Cellists Concert, komponiert, kann das einsätzige Stück auch von Amateuren gespielt werden. Diesem Anspruch der leichteren Spielbarkeit und...

The first movement 'Breakfast al fresco' is dominated by impressionistic colour, delicate tremoli sul ponticello and flageolet sounds in the two strings are juxtaposed with precise runs in the piano....

Für Flöte, Oboe und Klarinette

Deep Slavic emotions and gripping virtuosity - that's what characterizes many compositions by Rodion Shchedrin. Even if he has been a cosmopolitan for a long time, the Moscow-born composer nevertheles...

Un quadro d'atmosfera neo-impressionista e virtuoso-cantabile.

Sir Yehudi Menuhin, who died in March 1999, was both the founder and for 40 years the guiding spirit of the summer music festival that is named after him in the Swiss town of Gstaad. The Gstaad festiv...

You can even play a duet on a solo instrument! In his piece! In notes spread across two systems the violin displays its characteristic contrasting qualities. The instrument contradicts itself: staccat...

Deep Slavic emotion and riveting virtuosity - this is what characterises many compositions by Rodion Shchedrin. Even though he has been a cosmopolitan for a long time, the Moscow-born Shchedrin has re...

Thema der hintersinnig-virtuosen Variationen ist das Andante aus Leopold Mozarts Sinfonie D-Dur (Eisen D 26).

This monodrama sums up the essential moments of the second scene from Act V of Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra in the Russian translation of Boris Pasternak. The conflict between life and d...

With his opera 'The Dead Souls' (based on Gogol) and the ballets 'Anna Karenina' (based on Tolstoy), 'The Seagull' and 'Woman with a Little Dog' (both based on Chekov), Shchedrin has brought classic w...

Profound Slavonic emotion and thrilling virtuosity distinguish many of Rodion Shchedrin's compositions. Even though he has long since become a citizen of the world, the composer born in Moscow has hel...