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Daniel Hope, Alexey Botvinov

Schnittke - Works for Violin and Piano

Deutsche Grammophon
Release Date: February 5, 2021

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'Tango in a mad house' at Odessa Classics 2020
1 Schnittke: Suite in the Old Style / I. Pastorale  
2 II. Ballet  
3 III. Minuet  
4 IV. Fugue  
5 V. Pantomime  
6 Schnittke: Polka  
7 Schnittke: Tango From "Agony"  
8 Schnittke: Sonata No. 1 / I. Andante  
9 II.Allegretto  
10 III. Largo  
11 IV. Allegretto scherzando  
12 Schnittke: Madrigal in Memoriam Oleg Kagan  
13 Schnittke: Gratulationsrondo  
14 Schnittke: Stille Nacht  
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Daniel Hope was fifteen when he first encountered the music of Alfred Schnittke in 1989. The experience launched a love affair with the Russian composer's work that has continued to deepen ever since. The violinist's latest album for Deutsche Grammophon pays homage to this maverick genius, whose elegant explorations of past styles and free-thinking experiments in "polystylism" were both original and iconoclastic, at times bringing him into conflict with the Soviet authorities. 

Schnittke – Works for Violin and Piano, set for international release on 5 February 2021, was recorded with Ukrainian pianist Alexey Botvinov, an acclaimed interpreter of the composer's works. The programme embraces everything from the immediately accessible Polka and Tango to the multi-layered Violin Sonata No.1, the work that first ignited Hope's passion for Schnittke's music.

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