Rodion Shchedrin
• Rodion Shchedrin was a full-blooded musician, composer and a highly gifted pianist
• sweetly beautiful, almost cinematographically illustrative music is juxtaposed with polyphonic and complexly constructed compositions
• multifaceted stylistics and virtuosic orchestral treatment
• extended colourful tonal language that is immediately captivating
• tendency towards experimentation as well as attachment to folklore, but also to archaic early forms of music, which he occasionally combines with avant-garde means including serial and aleatoric techniques
• Shchedrin achieved world fame through his brilliant adaptation of motifs from Georges Bizet's opera 'Carmen' entitled 'Carmen Suite' for string orchestra and percussion
Works by Rodion Shchedrin include:
24 Preludes and Fugues for Piano (1964-70)
Carmen Suite for string orchestra and percussion (1967)
Concerto for Orchestra No.1 'Naughty Limericks' for orchestra (1963)
Anna Karenina Ballet in 3 acts (1972)
Works by Rodion Shchedrin are published by Boosey & Hawkes / Sikorski
