Alfred Schnittke - Gogol Suite; Labyrinths (Lev Markiz)

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Composer: Alfred Schnittke

• (01-08) Gogol Suite (compiled by Gennady Rozhdestvensky)
• (09-13) Labyrinth

Anton Kontra, violin
Malmö Symphony Orchestra
Lev Markiz, conductor

Date: 1991
Label: BIS
http://bis.se/composer/schnittke-alfred/schnittke-gogol-suite-labyrinths

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Alfred Schnittke (November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Soviet and German composer. Schnittke completed his graduate work in composition at the Moscow Conservatory in 1961 and taught there from 1962 to 1972 Schnittke's early music shows the strong influence of Dmitri Shostakovich. Later, he created a new style which has been called "polystylism", where he juxtaposed and combined music of various styles past and present. As his health deteriorated, Schnittke's music started to abandon much of the extroversion of his polystylism and retreated into a more withdrawn, bleak style.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Schnittke

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Lev Markiz is a conductor who was born in Moscow and emigrated to the Netherlands in 1981. He studied chamber music with Maria Yudina and violin with Yuri Yankelevich at the Moscow Conservatory. Markiz later studied conducting with Kirill Kondrashin. Markiz began his career as a violinist, but gradually turned toward conducting. He was a friend of both Shostakovich and Schnittke, two composers with whose music he is closely identified. Markiz has made nearly 100 recordings on the Russian label Melodiya, and since 1981 on BIS, Globe, Brilliant Classics, and others.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lev-markiz-mn0001641861

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