Alfred Schnittke: Sinfonia n.8 (1994) 

This is my favorite symphony of all time.

Чудесное восприятие музыки величайшего композитора Шнитке.

one of the super stars of post modern music

I. Moderato. II. Allegro moderato. 08:37 III. Lento. 12:56 IV. Allegro moderato. 28:55 V. Lento. 34:00

Şu ana kadar duyduğum en karanlık senfoni, müthiş.

Schnittke's soul laid bare: iridescent and ashen, gasping for airing, and bleeding indefatigable love from every vein. Who could not be overwhelmed with compassion at this music? And yet so many have only "Shostakovich" on their lips. How they have missed the point!

Шнитке космически велик и могуч, феерически прекрасен.Как он это делает, фантастика!И при том, что он современен, он до конца не открыт и не понят, но с другой стороны, - " вершины таланта художника всегда скрыты облаками неопределенности и сомнения".

Perhaps I struggle differently than most - not better, worse, more, less - just different. I find this symphony spiritually uplifting and far more mundane in its powerful expressions of the here and now. The ending is a positive ray of ordinary hope.

Как хорошо вы написали!!! Полность с вами!!

This is fast becoming my favourite symphony. Here we hear what it's like to know that we will soon be dead.

Wonderful. This evening will be dedicated to Schnittke, one of the greates composers of last century. I do listen to him over and over again to detect always new,finely hidden hints to "classical" music. To me he is the "modern renaissance composer".

That last movement... the most beautiful and dissonant apotheosis of C Major I've ever heard. Wonderful.

This symphony is the first work of Schnittke I ever heard. The repetition of the initial motive is haunting. IIt has nothing to do with similar scores as Bolero of Ravel or 7th symphony of Shostakovitch. Here, the distended malody repeats without any accompaniment - or so few. It is a feeling of loneliness and distress which emegres from this beginning. This ostinato is by far the most dramatic, since we feel that the drama is in the heart of the composer.

Like the requiem mass by Artyomov this wonderful symphony seems to resonate with the landscape and spirit of Russia itself. Like Artyomov's piece it is both eerie and beautiful at the same time. It is drenched in old age and mysticism but seems also to offer hope. Its great beauty does not dazzle you straight away but rather builds up inside you slowly but undeniably.

Grande musica meravigliosa come pure il suo compositore.

Музыка горизонтов, которые надо открыть. Музыка новых планет.

Schnittke , the Great !

This was written only two years after my birth. I didn't know up until recently that symphonies and other classical forms were still alive in our days. Exciting.

An outstanding composer ! A lot of thanks

Wonderful music...

И сердцу и уму

Formidable. Cette journée dans mon antre, sera consacrée à Schnittke, à mon avis l'un des grands compositeurs du siècle passé. Je l'écoute encore et encore pour détecter toujours de nouvelles astuces, finement cachés de la "musique classique". Pour moi, il est l'un des architecte sonore majeur de la Renaissance musicale moderne.

Fantastic piece!

All You need is ears . Open .

La música es un ruido sin sentido hasta que encuentra una mente receptora. Me ha gustado bastante la obra, sobre todo el final del primer movimiento (a partir del minuto 05:30) y el segundo movimiento. El final de la obra es interesantísimo.

I loved it

Well bless his little heart.

Para que no se te olvide que nuestro más profundo interior existe...

off to good start...

tThe first movement is rahter impressive. It is an ostinao on a chromatic theme. But it hzs nothing to do with such pieces as Bolero or Chostakovitch's 7° symphony. Here, the mood is much more desolate and lonely. This feeling of loneliness in a barren landscape is the overarching mood of the whole symphony.

Genio della musica contemporanea del novecento. Trentadue Domenico on RU-vid. Ascoltatemi: Ciao! I love this music always change difficult expressive.

And I thought Shosty was sad.........Great ending!

The opening is some sort of grotesque and beautiful homage to mahler and shostakovich followed by brahms a few minutes in. Back to shosta with the horns, then mahler, then shosta, then mahler. The underlying agony is a perversion of Mahlers 3rd where the earth is groaning it's way awake. The composer has turned it into a dionysian waking as opposed to apollonian. The start of the second movement is ordinary human drama until the mahlerian gods appear in mixed guise, a nietschean blend of apollo and dionysus. The human accepts the challenge and starts out his day. The third movement is ... oh this is a symphony by alfred schnittke. Never mind.

There are three works in which the ostinao is widely used: the Bolero of Ravl for chorgraphic reasons, the 7y=th symphony of Chostakovitch for collective dramatic reasons, and this symphony of Schnittke for personal dramatic reasons.

Советский Маугли любил созерцать под такую музыку.)))

BRAVO !!!

quite good...

great

Still the ghost of Shostakovich in the opening minutes.

if it makes any sense i kinda hear schnittke doing with Shostakovitch and Mahler what Schoenberg does with Brahms, though here I will state my opinion (and others may violently disagree) that what Schoenberg does with Brahms is an order of genius unsurpassed by any other composer? i am reserving the right to qualify, modify or plain reject this comment at any time!

i can hear again

Bach would like it

Если он действительно ТАК воспринимал мир, остаётся ему только посочувствовать...

i don't find the opening as desultory as some of you, i even find it a touch playful, even wistful. And quite frankly the first movement evokes more Bruckner-Mahler-Brahms than early 20th Century bathos ala Shostakovitch or the ephemeral qualities of Ravel-Debussy. I hear lots of, lots of Mahler's 3rd in mood and instrumentation ... The transition to the harp or concertina or whatever those instruments are is both idiotic and genius at the same time!

Does this work remind anyone of Sibelius's 4th Symphony?

Schnittke is incredible and this symphony in particular is one of the most complex and dark works i have ever heard.Although i can't seem to find other symphonies of him other than this one,the 3rd and the 4th.Will you bee uploading the others like the 7th,the 6th,5th?

Veryery complex language of MUSIC.

Another sample of a music technology by Schittke, not more than that.

I'll bet he was the life of the party...

Anybody know the artist of the picture?

Враг не дремлет,- бодритесь!

Полчаса потраченного времени. Ни душе, ни сердцу, ни уму.

30:55

I undersand as we alldo that since when Victoria's death in 1901 , no ! Victor Hugo before Rimbaud and Verlaine changing Frenh poetry . No. The decimation of the 30 years war in the old states of the Holy Roman Empire before Germany was a nation . Just when did artists, painters (Goya 's Napoleonic horros were the first I'm aware of ) start to focus on he unseemly truths of the human condition ? So people don't laught , smile , drink, cavort anymore in Tel Aviv or Kashtent or Barcelona . Bolcolm and John Adams still trace riotous , extremely funny and fun in their mu This is why Scarlatti is so remembered he does it all . Think about it all the great writers and thinkers on style and aesthetics count this LONE Spanish genius out of all the thousands who've written music in Spain between 1600 and 1900 there are only about 5 anyone pays attention make it 6 if you add that guitar composerTartega ?I dont emember his name ... my point is .I write tons of dark , hopeless music . The truly difficult thing is to write sunny music like Handel and Mozart or Andriessen or Ned Rorem or even Tchaikovsky (he is really great no matter what althe haters say . Yuck - I cant believe I used that term - as bad as geek ! No , true intellectual says geek . wrong ! Let's make wrog a word . Just saying . Oops thre i go again with another neologism . ! Ilove Schnittke ! I can't beliee there are 8 or more ? Sinfonias ! The 6th minute made me stop I had to go try to copy that sound of high strings in minor 2nds with horn ! Some Schnittke is hard to keep an interest in like Wuorinen but this is a winner .

Sorry, the emperor is not wearing any clothes.