Alfred Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings, part 3
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Alfred Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings, part 3
Omsk Organ Hall April 9, 2003, Russia
Svetlana Ponomarëva Piano
Yuri Nikolaevsky Conductor
Omsk Chamber Orchestra
"On April 9, 2003, Omsk newly renovated Organ Hall saw the last concert Yuri Nikolaevsky conducted. A personal friend of Alfred Schnittke, he had worked with Schnittke at Mosfilm for many years. There the composer was writing film music, testing his ideas for his most ambitious works. When the Director of the Omsk Chamber Orchestra arranged to have Nikolaevsky fly from Moscow to Omsk especially to conduct the Concerto for Piano & Strings with Svetlana Ponomarëva as the soloist, we felt honored and we knew the maestro was on a mission, to serve his friend's music wherever it would take him. (...)"
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