Alfred Schnittke: Tango from Life with an Idiot

Alfred Schnittke: Tango from Life with an Idiot Violin - Agnieszka Świgut Cello - Marcel Markowski Piano - Aleksandra Świgut Recorded: at Fryderyk Chopin’s University Concerthall, Warsaw, Poland, January 2022, The chamber music concert called: “The Winter Journey“ This concert was recorded in January 2022, only a month before the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, that was the time when Russian soldiers started performing military capability close to the Ukrainian border. The entire world was watching this, but no-one believed that after tragic consequences of the Second World War, 30 years after the collapse of Berlin Wall, at the time of full prosperity of the western culture there is still a real threat of another political conflict. Our concert called “The Winter Journey“ was based mostly on Russian music which since the outbreak of the war has been shut down and forbidden to perform in Poland (whereas in western countries the approach to