Any Schittke fans out there?


I picked a Naxos piano quintet and string trio. Wow!!
Unbelievable music! I next picked up the chandos recording
of the 8th symphony. Even more WOW! I then tried the four
violin concertos with Kremer playing violin on an absolutely superb telarc recording. Some of the most exalted music I have ever heard! Exhausting to listen. So any other great stuff out there?? Hyperion has some recordings, are they worthy the effort?
shubertmaniac

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So you like Alf! That was his nickname among the fellow composers and musicians...
He's the pioneer of neo-classical avant-garde and damn, he's great!
I have him on Phillips digital vinyl piano with Quartet #4 and have numerous opuses on Nonesuch CD by Kronos Quartet.
I would recommend listening to him abbout one record per session. Otherwise he's very exhausting to listen and even if you listen longer you might not understand what's going on. A truly unique music and every time you listen to the same thing you can accept it differently due to the large scale of abstractions of a real life in his music.
Yeah, as I said before dig onto the Kronos Quartet works. There is a CD where they play music of Elliot Sharp, David Torn, John Zorn...