Ray Charles News: Music Review: Schnittke/Raskatov - Symphony No. 9/Nunc Dimittis

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The story of Alfred Schnittke's final composition �" presented here as the premiere recording of his Ninth Symphony �" is not without its classical intrigue. The image of a dying composer, battling poor health to allow his shaky hand to scribble out his final musical breath, immediately brings to mind the image from Amadeus of the great master struggling to finish his own Requiem before his flame was...