Alfred Schnittke: Ritual, (K)ein Sommernachtstraum, Passacaglia, Faust Cantata - Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam, James DePreistThis CD contains some of the scariest music you may ever hear. The Faust Cantata later became the third act of the opera Historia Von D. Johann Fausten, which Schnittke was not able to complete fully before his death. A recording of a truncated version of the opera was released by RCA (Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerd Albrecht) but is not available at the moment. It is a disgrace no record company has taken it upon itself yet to record a satisfactory version, comprising all the material that Schnittke left us.
BIS-CD-437
