Rodion Konstantinowitsch Schtschedrin: spartiti difficile

Shchedrin, son of a composer and music teacher, underwent a thorough musical training in Moscow. His versatility and dazzling competence across a wide variety of musical genres are surely a result of...

With his five piano concertos, sonatas and 24 preludes and fugues Rodion Shchedrin is one of the most prominent composers for piano of our time. A gifted pianist, he has given the first performances o...

Shchedrin's (oEuvre spans nearly every musical genre, and it is hardly surprising that an output of such versatility contains some rather remarkable instrumental combinations, for example 'Music from...

This short study explores the entire dynamic range of the instrument. It is based on a Russian fairy-tale which can be recited (ad lib.) towards the end of the piece.

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...

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....

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...

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...

With his five piano concertos, sonatas and 24 preludes and fugues, Rodion Shchedrin is one of the most outstanding piano music composers of our time. As he is an excellent pianist himself, he was able...