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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=361txKposfY
Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998) - Dialog For Violoncello And Seven Instruments (flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, horn, percussion and piano) (1965/1967)
"Dialogue was originally planned as a concerto for cello and orchestra. Schnittke even completed the piano score in 1965, intending to orchestrate it later. But in 1967 he changed his mind and decided to score the work for a solo cello and instruments which would offer contrasting timbres: flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, trumpet, piano and percussion – hence the title. He described Dialogue as ‘a piece with well developed solo line and pointillistic, sketch-like parts of the other instruments. The work is built on a three-note element (C–D–D♭) and its endless variations. [...] The form of the piece is a sonata with a long solo cello introductory cadenza’. It is an early example of his use of dialogue which was to become the main idea in his later, so-called ‘polystylistic’ compositions, with their contrasts and clashes of various ‘musics’."
Alexander Ivashkin
Natalia Gutman, cello
Yuri Nikolayevsky, conductor
Gnessin Chamber Orchestra