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Originally Posted by Glice
Schnittke doesn't get enough of a mention, methinks. I've got three CDs of his stuff, and they're all glorious. I got a Xenakis percussion CD recently, he's really rather good at composing for percussion.
Today I got Heifetz's rendition of Bach's sonatas & partitas for solo violin... it's making me quite woozy. Utterly magnificent.
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Yeah, I think I'm going to look into Schnittke - I'd like to analyze some of his stuff. Sometimes, I think he's better than Shostakovich, to whom he's often compared, right?