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Alfred Schnittke - Symphonies Nos. 6 and 7 - BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)

Publisher: BIS - records

Life and work come together in a particularly disturbing way in Alfred Schnittke's Sixth Symphony. Schnittke wrote the work in 1992, after sustained his second major stroke; he suffered his first in 1985, would suffer another in 1994, and, eventually, a fourth in 1998 would take the composer's life.

In works such as the Sixth Symphony, one hears the staggered notation of confessions and confrontations, a relentless "season in hell" unrelieved by even briefest repose. The formal has almost entirely disappeared, the structure feels splintered and shambled, every idea chokes itself into silence. Especially in the Sixth, Schnittke lives without the lyric line, that cumulative, tidal development which had been for centuries the life-support of the symphony; instead, every event begins anew at ground zero. The Sixth Symphony is the sound of Schnittke working in the dark, dammed and damned but equally unwavering.

Schnittke's Seventh Symphony is the "bright spot" of his last three completed symphonies. Not that it's a happy work, nor an easy listen, but the Seventh is somewhat relieved by Schnittke's uncanny humor and weirdness. While the Sixth sorrows and the Eighth searches, the Seventh sets its specters free to graffiti the work with the unpredictable, the ungainly, and occasionally even the visionary.

The work is in three movements, though the middle movement is more an inexplicable intermezzo than an independent symphonic structure. The entire work opens with a 42-bar violin solo, both intensely lyrical and ungraceful. And while it leaves little room for the performer's suavity, its initial gesture-a pious ascending arpeggio which eventually sinks back to slumber-carries the rest of the Symphony on its back, providing the skeleton for even the most disparate motives of the next three movements.

Tracklist

01. Symphony No. 6 - I Allegro moderato (13:55)

02. Symphony No. 6 - II Presto (4:15)

03. Symphony No. 6 - III Adagio (10:09)

04. Symphony No. 6 - IV Allegro vivace (5:24)

05. Symphony No. 7 - I Andante (5:02)

06. Symphony No. 7 - II Largo (2:33)

07. Symphony No. 7 - III Allegro (14:33)

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