Alfred Schnittke: A Portrait

December 17, 2000

glenn gould studio, toronto

Alfred Schnittke: A Portrait was the first in a series of three portrait concerts that comprised the 2000/01 season - the others were Arnold Schoenberg and Erwin Schulhoff - all great chameleons. Each program explored the multiplicity of styles they respectively experimented with.

🔈 Introduction
Andrew Burashko

🔈 Stille Nacht
Mark Fewer violin, Andrew Burashko piano

String Trio
🔈 i. Moderato
🔈 ii. Adagio
Mark Fewer violin, Rennie Regehr viola, Thomas Wiebe cello

🔈 Gratulations Rondo
Mark Fewer violin, Andrew Burashko piano

INTERMISSION

Five Aphorisms
(with poetry by Joseph Brodsky)
🔈 i. Moderato assai
🔈 Nativity
🔈 ii. Allegretto
🔈 Master/Slave
🔈 iii Lento
🔈 May 24, 1980
🔈 iv. Senza tempo
🔈Lullaby
🔈 v. Grave
Ted Dykstra reader, Andrew Burashko piano

🔈 Piano Quintet
i. Moderato
ii. i Tempo di valse
iii. Andante
iv. Lento
v. Moderato pastorale

Stephen Sitarski violin, Mark Fewer violin, Rennie Regehr viola, Thomas Wiebe, cello, Andrew Burashko piano

Vienna

april 16, 2000

glenn gould studio, toronto

A program of music by Viennese composers, feauturing the music of Mozart, Mahler, Brahms and Alfred Schnittke. Although Schnittke was Russian, he spent some formative years in Vienna as a child. His music on this program is the completion of Mahler’s sketch for the unwritten second movement of his Piano Quartet.

Piano Quartet, Gustav Mahler & Alfred Schnittke
🔈 i. Moderato
🔈 ii. Scherzo-Allegro
Annalee Patipatanakoon violin, Steven Dann viola, Eugene Osadchy cello, Andrew Burashko piano

Sonata in B Flat Major, K V 378, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
🔈 i. Allegro moderato
🔈 ii. Andantino sostenuto e cantabile
🔈 iii. Rondeau - Allegro
Annalee Patipatanakoon violin, Andrew Burashko piano

INTERMISSION

Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op. 25, Johannes Brahms
🔈 i. Allegro
🔈 ii. Intermezzo - Allegro (ma non troppo)
🔈 iii. Andante con moto
🔈 iv. Rondo alla zingarese - Presto
Annalee Patipatanakoon violin, Steven Dann viola, Eugene Osadchy cello, Andrew Burashko piano

Vienna (1997) - Winnipeg, MB

All That Jazz?????

january 9, 2000

glenn gould studio, Toronto

Jazz influenced music by 20th century composers including Kurt Weill, Mauricio Kagel, George Gershwin, Bohuslav Martinu, Phil Dwyer and others. This was the first Art of Time program to involve a non-classical (jazz) musician - Phil Dwyer. The goal was to explore this jazz influenced repertoire, usually performed by classical musicians, with a purely jazz sensibility.

Hot Sonata, Erwin Schulhoff
🔈 i. quarter note = 66
🔈 ii. half note = 112
🔈 iii. quarter note = 80
🔈 iv. half note = 132
Andrew Burashko piano, Phil Dwyer alto saxophone

Three Preludes, George Gershwin
🔈 Prelude I
🔈 Prelude II
🔈 Prelude III
Andrew Burashko piano

Violin Sonata No. 1 H. 182 (1929) (Jazz Sonata), Bohuslav Martinu
🔈 i. Allegro
🔈 ii. Andante
🔈 iii. Allegretto
Andrew Burashko piano, Mark Fewer violin

INTERMISSION

Rrrrrrrrrrr 5 Jazz Pieces, Maurizio Kagel
🔈 i. Racket
🔈 ii. Rrrrr-Bop
🔈 iii. Reeds
🔈 iv. Rrrrr..... Old/New
🔈 v. Riff
Andrew Burashko piano, Phil Dwyer saxophone/clarinet, Mark Fewer violin

Seven pieces from The Threepenny Opera, Kurt Weill
arranged by Stefan Frenkel
i. Ballad of Mack the Knife
ii. Call From the Grave
iii. Ballad of the Easy Life
iv. Polly’s Song
v. Pimp’s Ballad
vi. Pirate Jenny
vii. Cannon Song
Andrew Burashko piano, Mark Fewer violin

🔈Jazz Interlude
Phil Dwyer piano

🔈Tango a la Burashko, Phil Dwyer
Andrew Burashko piano, Phil Dwyer saxophone, Mark Fewer violin

Photos by John Lauener

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