Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pardon my language but where the heck was everyone? It’s very possible that a potent double-shot of often gloomy Russian composers ...

Up until the early 1970s, Alfred Schnittke, who after Shostakovich took the next step in Russian music, coped with his times by rebellion, compliance and by extolling the crazy world he lived in. He ...

On a visit to Moscow to see his grandparents in 1941, 6-year-old Alfred Schnittke registered at a music school but never did receive an education there. War broke out in June of that year, when ...

Sunday, Composer Focus Concerts, a monthly series at the Lilypad in Cambridge, turns its attention to music by Russian composer Alfred Schnittke (1934-98), including Schnittke’s 1978 violin-and-piano ...

Some composers get a word or phrase attached to them and it sticks like mud. For the German-Russian Alfred Schnittke (died 1998) it’s “polystylism”, descriptive of a magpie approach that borrows from ...

Ever since Beethoven ended his symphonic career with the Choral Symphony, the ninth symphony for any composer has been a watershed event, with composers such as Mahler and Bruckner either unable to ...

It takes a special kind of performer to play the music of Alfred Schnittke persuasively — to give his style the acerbic stringency it is due while still bringing out the mournful expressivity that ...

With Jurowski’s unique match of lyric flexibility and a rhythmic discipline manifest in the visual style of his conducting, the RCM Symphony and Chamber Orchestras could face comparison with the very ...