Thème Russe
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SCHNITTKE / TCHAIKOVSKY / STRAVINSKY
Thème Russe
Kuss Quartet
[ Onyx / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 1 April 2012
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An enchanting programme of Russian music for string quartet from the acclaimed Kuss Quartet. The multiple-composer 'Variations on a Russian folk song' has composers such as Scriabin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov and Lyadov rub shoulders with lesser-known names such as Vitols, Blumenfeld, Ewald, Winkler, Sokolov and Artsybuschev - each composer contributing a variation.
Selections from Tchaikovsky's 'Album for the Young' frame two 20th-century works: Stravinsky's effervescent 'Concertino', and Schnittke's spare and sombre 'Canon in memoriam Igor Stravinsky'. • Tchaikovsky's ever-popular First String Quartet concludes an ingeniously constructed programme.
Tracks:
Variations On A Russian Folk Song
(Scriabin, Glazunov, Vitols, Rimsky-Korsakov, Lyadov, Blumenfeld et al)
Schnittke:
Canon in memoriam Igor Stravinsky for string quartet
Stravinsky:
Concertino for String Quartet
Tchaikovsky:
String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
Album for the Young, Op. 39 (extracts)
