Rodion Konstantinowitsch Schtschedrin

Trumpet & Piano

Trumpet & Piano

Sir Yehudi Menuhin, who died in March 1999, was both the founder and for 40 years the guiding spirit of the summer music festival that is named after him in the Swiss town of Gstaad. The Gstaad festiv...

You can even play a duet on a solo instrument! In his piece! In notes spread across two systems the violin displays its characteristic contrasting qualities. The instrument contradicts itself: staccat...

This short 'Pizzicato Etude' is a sparkling mood piece and brilliantly effective as an encore piece.

This short 'Pizzicato Etude' is a sparkling mood piece and brilliantly effective as an encore piece.

Thema der hintersinnig-virtuosen Variationen ist das Andante aus Leopold Mozarts Sinfonie D-Dur (Eisen D 26).

This ten-minute aria fragment comes from Rodion Shchedrin's oratorio 'The Enchanted Wanderer'.The piece is divided into two sections: It begins with an arioso vocal part above the pianistically demand...

This monodrama sums up the essential moments of the second scene from Act V of Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra in the Russian translation of Boris Pasternak. The conflict between life and d...

Profound Slavonic emotion and thrilling virtuosity distinguish many of Rodion Shchedrin's compositions. Even though he has long since become a citizen of the world, the composer born in Moscow has hel...

The Left-Hander - a popular Russian grotesque about Russian and Englishmen, new technologies, old traditions and hard liquor - in the form of a two-act opera.