Rodion Konstantinowitsch Schtschedrin

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...

This short 'Pizzicato Etude' is a sparkling mood piece and brilliantly effective as an encore piece.

This short 'Pizzicato Etude' is a sparkling mood piece and brilliantly effective as an encore piece.

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

This ten-minute aria fragment comes from Rodion Shchedrin's oratorio 'The Enchanted Wanderer'.The piece is divided into two sections: It begins with an arioso vocal part above the pianistically demand...

This ten-minute aria fragment comes from Rodion Shchedrin's oratorio 'The Enchanted Wanderer'.The piece is divided into two sections: It begins with an arioso vocal part above the pianistically demand...

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...

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...

The Left-Hander - a popular Russian grotesque about Russian and Englishmen, new technologies, old traditions and hard liquor - in the form of a two-act opera.

Shchedrin's concert opera 'The Enchanted Wanderer' has quickly taken a permanent place in the musical canon. Now the piano score of the successful and impressive work is being published. Deep Slavonic...

Shchedrin's concert opera 'The Enchanted Wanderer' has quickly taken a permanent place in the musical canon. Now the piano score of the successful and impressive work is being published. Deep Slavonic...

This dramatic episode is taken from Pushkin's novella about the execution of a Russian social revolutionary in 1775 and presented by the composer as an acoustic scene. Here is something really special...

Double concerto for piano, violoncello and orchestra bears the subtitle 'Romantic Offering' by which the composer describes the idea and intellectual form of the musical material. At the same time, he...