Schnittke Alfred Film Music Edition

Clowns and Kinder

Märchen der Wanderungen (The Fairy-tale of Wanderings)

Der Aufstieg

Der Waltzer

Die Abenteuer eines Zahnarztes (The adventures of a dentist)

Die Geschichte Eines Unbekannten

The Story of an Unknown Actor

Die Glasharmonika

The Commissar

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Sport, Sport, Sport

Alfred Schnittke as a composer of film music - that is a fact well known to anyone who has ever been concerned with Alfred Schnittke. However, only very few people are familiar with his actual work in the film music genre. This is all the more surprising since on the one hand, Alfred Schnittke wrote more than 60 film scores between 1961 and 1984, and on the other hand, his poly-stylistic techniques found a nearly perfect equivalent in film.
Since Alfred Schnittke, like many contemporary composers in the USSR, suffered from artistic regimentation, his works could often only be performed under difficult circumstances, and his work for film therefore contributed significantly to his livelihood.

“what we have here are scores painstakingly gathered together and recorded in excellent audio rather than original soundtracks...With an inevitable smoothing out of those rough edges that can charm and shock in those original film recordings, this is a collection very much worth acquiring.” MusicWeb International