Browse: Schnittke - Madrigal in memoriam Oleg Kagan for violin solo

Over 20 years after his death, Schnittke’s musical games are as potent and jolting as they ever were, and Hope and Botvinov take up their challenges with wonderful verve and conviction. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[In the Cello Sonata] Elschenbroich and Limonov plot a daringly extreme course, their first movement more tautly conceived, the central scherzo a positive whirlwind. The finale goes to the other... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2017 More…

In many respects Alfred Schnittke seems to take Shostakovich's unique brand of introverted lyricism and his penchant for grotesque imagery to new levels of intensity. This link is palpably drawn... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…