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1(=picc).1.1.1(=dbn)-1.1.1.0-perc(2):timp/tom-t/SD/BD/cyms/bells/vib-pft-str(1.1.1.1.1)
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Sikorski
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Composer's Notes
‘‘Polyphonic Tango’ was composed in 1979 for Gennady Rozhdestvensky and the orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre and was an attempt to find the middle ground between humour and seriousness. Both in the title and in the performance, which oscillates between tonality and atonality, between the banal-conservative and the banal-dissonant, between the pub and the concert hall (but in both cases in tails!).’ (Alfred Schnittke)
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