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Tango from "Life with an Idiot"

Schnittke Alfred | Rostropóvich Mstislav

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Duration:
2m 33s
Title on Youtube:
Rostropovich plays piano in Schnittke's Tango from "Life with an Idiot"
Description on Youtube:
Intermezzo (Tango) from the opera "Life with an Idiot" Renowned cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich switches instruments in this performance, joining members of the Rotterdam Philharmonic as a pianist. The music is the intermezzo between the first and second scenes of Act I from the 1992 opera "Life with an Idiot" by Russian composer Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998).