(2002) Shchedrin: Carmen Suite - Russian Photographs - Glorification Kurt Weill colors and orchestration

colors and orchestration

American conductor Lawrence Foster (born in 1941) began his career with the San Francisco Ballet

finding a position as musician and composer to the Danish court

Taeko Kuwata

proved to be the revelation at the last festival Sommets Musicaux in Gstaad

(2002) Shchedrin: Carmen Suite - Russian Photographs - Glorification Kurt Weill colors and orchestrationRodion Shchedrin is one of the most important Russian composers to follow Chostakovitch; he earned initial international fame for his Carmen Suite (see below). Claves Records is pleased to celebrate his 70th birthday with a recording featuring this beautiful suite as well as two world premiere recordings. Shchedrin wrote the Carmen Suite in 1967 as the music for a one act ballet at the Bolshoi. It is an amazing document of the composers phenomenal