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Background: As the leading Soviet composers of the mid- and late twentieth century, Dmitry Shostakovich and Alfred Schnittke shared certain characteristics: musically, a frequent recourse to symphonic writing; socially, having to endure constant pressure from the authorities.

While Schnittke never studied with the older composer, his assuming of Shostakovich’s mantle was something he himself was aware of, and nowhere is the connection between the two more apparent than in the piano quintets, written at relative turning-points in their careers. For Shostakovich, this meant the consolidation of a more classical approach to large-scale form in the wake of his Fifth Symphony, for Schnittke, the arrival at a pluralist approach to composition, with the old and the new held in free and often provocative association.

CATALOGUE NR: 8554830
RECORD LABEL: Naxos
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 4.77 including VAT, or £ 4.15 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 02-Sep-2002

COMPOSER: Dmitri Shostakovich  (other composers in brackets after works)
TRACKS: Quintet for Piano and Strings op.57 (Shostakovich). Quintet for Piano and String Quartet (Schnittke).
ARTISTS: Boris Berman   Vermeer Qt    

- Dec-2002 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide 3 star 'this is a dedicated performance, recorded for Canadian Radio, which with fearlessly extreme dynamic contrasts brings out the full greatness of the piece'

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