Schnittke - Sketches (Esquisses)
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 9215
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Ballet
Release Date: 18th April 2011
Contents
Artists
Bolshoi Theatre OrchestraConductor
Andrey ChistiakovAbout
In 1985 the music was choreographed, and the ballet, called Esquisses was performed at the Bolshoi. Schnittke composed a number of new pieces for this production. The characters in the action are all from Gogol, but in addition to The Dead Souls, we meet Tchitchikov, Major Kovalyov’s Nose, and Ferdinand VIII from Notes of a Madman. A passage from the book is recited in his piece, and is read by the conductor on this CD.
The music is a poly-stylistic, with a huge orchestra (2 electric guitars, flexatone, prepared piano with coins inserted between the strings), quotations from Beethoven, Haydn and Tchaikovsky - all with a sense of devilish mischief which suites ideally the grotesque nature of many of Gogol’s characters.
Recording made in 1996.
‘The result is one of his most entertaining pieces, playful, memorable, laconic, packed with sly grotesqueries: ideal for the theatre, in other words. The performance and recording do it full justice’ - Gramophone, June 1998
Track Listing:
1. March: The Swan, the Pike and the Crayfish
2. Overture
3. The Childhood of Chichikov
4. The Portrait
5. Major Kovalyov
6. Morning. The Disappearance of the Nose
7. In Search of the Nose
8. Despair
9. The Nose is Found
10. The Overcoat
11. Ferdinand VIII
12. The Civil Servants
13. The Barrel-Organ
14. The Unknown Woman
15. Pas de deux
16. The Debauch
17. The Sabbath
18. The Barrel-Organ
19. Spanish Royal March
20. The Ball
21. The Testament
22. March: The Swan, the Pike and the Crayfish
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