Browse: Schnittke - Sonata No. 2 (Quasi una Sonata) for violin and piano

Vukotic’s excellent sense of togetherness with Firsova shines in many of the responses in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella-derived Suite Italienne and the neat end of Schnittke’s Musica nostalgica. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Cuckson and her stage-fellow Blair McMillen sound almost as though they had this music in their blood…they manage to sound assertive but not unkempt, ponderous but not lugubrious, bringing plenty... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2016 More…

Schnittke's music for violin and piano spans most of his composing career, from the early 1960s, when Shostakovich's genius and Soviet ideology both loomed large, to the mid-1990s, a time of... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Mints and Katya Apekisheva are passionate and dedicated guides to Schnittke’s expressive landscapes as they evolve from late-Shostakovian grimaces to polystylistic melanges of neo-Baroque stylisation... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2016 More…