tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649153160602115554.post3409714377791690850..comments2024-03-11T04:42:15.531-07:00Comments on Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review: Alfred Schnittke, Symphony No. 1, USSR Ministry of Culture State Symphony Orchestra, Gennady RozhdestvenskyGrego Applegate Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06188040049179872295noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649153160602115554.post-1510258815014993682015-09-04T09:07:45.474-07:002015-09-04T09:07:45.474-07:00Hi Chris,
Yes--noticed it on Amazon. Will have to ...Hi Chris,<br />Yes--noticed it on Amazon. Will have to listen! Very bold beginning to his symphonic output, yes, for sure! Thanks for your input as always!<br />Best,<br />GGrego Applegate Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06188040049179872295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649153160602115554.post-67785449370422285692015-09-03T22:07:45.486-07:002015-09-03T22:07:45.486-07:00Grego, the newer recording is of the Royal Stockho...Grego, the newer recording is of the Royal Stockholm Phil under Segerstam. It's on YouTube if you'd like to compare the two, although MP3 sound quality will obviously give you an incomplete impression. As you might expect given who's conducting, chaos is very much to the fore in the Segerstam!<br /><br />Anyway, this is surely one of <i>the</i> great 20th-century "anti-symphonies". I find it fascinating that Schnittke <i>began</i> his symphonic output (not counting the Bruckner-esque "no.0", actually not a bad work despite its obvious debt to Schnittke's teacher, Shostakovich) with this work, almost as though he had to put what the symphony had been up until that point to bed before attempting to rebuild it over the course of the seven (or eight, if you count the unfinished 9th) symphonies that followed.Chris Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00966794639194712056noreply@blogger.com