Alfred Schnittke's Concerto Grosso no. 1

Concerto Grosso no. 1 is one of Alfred Schnittke''s best-known and most compelling works, sounding the surface of late Soviet life while resonating with contemporary compositional currents around the world such as postmodernism. It marked a decisive point in Schnittke''s development of the approach he called polystylism, which aimed to contain in a single composition the wide range of contemporary...