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CRM has collaborated with following research and educational institutions:

  • Centre for Contemporary Music, Moscow, Russia;
  • Russian Music Academy, Moscow, Russia;
  • Alfred Schnittke Academy, Hamburg, Germany;
  • the Alfred Schnittke Institute, Moscow, Russia;
  • The State Institute of Arts Studies, Moscow;
  • The State Schnittke Institute, Moscow;
  • The Rakhmaninov Institute, Tambov,Russia;
  • The Rutgers University, USA;
  • The Ohio State University, USA;
  • The Yale University, USA;
  • The University of California, USA;
  • the University d’Evry, France;
  • Shostakovich Centre, Paris, France;
  • The D.D.Shostakovich Archive, Moscow, Russia;
  • The Rostropovich Archive, St Petersburg, Russia;
  • The Saratov State Conservatoire: The Schnittke Centre, Saratov, Russia;
  • Russian State Archive for Literature and Arts (RGALI);
  • The Russian Composers Union Library and Archive;
  • The Glinka Museum Archive;
  • the University of Canterbury, New Zealand;
  • The University of Manchester;
  • The University of Edinburgh;
  • SSEES, University of London;
  • The British Film Institute;
  • The Royal Musical Association.


The Centre’s members include major international experts on Russian culture as well as CRM own PhD students ( past and present). The CRM director , Alexander Ivashkin, has
extensive connections in his native Russia, which facilitates regular and active collaboration with various Russian institutions. CRM interdisciplinary and international activities 1997- 2011 helped to built a better understanding of Russian culture and to contextualize the research, educational and creative activities in and about Russia after many years of stagnation.

CRM focuses on international activities/ research and cultural exchange, as well as on a delivery benefits to the society, culture, music industry, educational institutions and on the effective dissemination/ application of its unique research activities and facilities.

The Centre collections attracts researchers and students from different countries and makes its unique materials available to any interested scholar.

CRM Recent Publications/Symposia/Festivals:

Books:

  • Ivashkin, Alexander (Ed.) A Schnittke Reader. Bloomington /Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. Supported by The Leverhulme Trust Research Grant.
  • Ivashkin, Alexander. Besedy s Alfredom Schnittke [Alfred Schnittke: conversations]. Second, Revised Russian Edition: Moscow: ‘Klassika-XXI”, 2003. Japanese Edition. Tokyo: Shunjusha Publishing Company, 2003.
  • Ivashkin, Alexander ( Ed.). Schnittke- stat’y o myzyke [Schnittke: writings on music]. Moscow, Kompozitor, 2004. 
  • Shevtsova, Maria (CRM member). Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre: Process to Performance ( London: Routledge, 2004); translated into Romanian andKorean, 2008 and 2010, respectively.
  • Ivashkin, Alexander. Rostropovich. Tokyo: Shunjusha Publishing Company, 2007.
  • Berman, Boris (Associate CRM member). Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer . New Haven-London: YUP, 2008
  • Fanning, David (Associate CRM member). Mieczyslaw Weinberg. In Search of Freedom. (Hofheim: Wolke, 2010)
  • Leikin, Anatole (Associate CRM member). The Performing Style of Alexander Scriabin ( Farnham: Adshgate, 2010)
  • McMillin, Arnold ( CRM member). Writing in a Cold Climate: Belarusian Literature from the 1970s to the Present Day (London, 2010).
  • Alexander Ivashkin and Andrew Kirkman (Eds.). Contemplating Shostakovich: Life, Music and Film. Farnham: Ashgate , 2012. Includes Ivashkin’s article ‘Shostakovich, Old Believers and New Minimalists’. Supported by BA Research Grant.
  • Ivashkin, Alexander. (M) Other Russia: After Shostakovich. Bloomington-Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (in progress). Supported by AHRC Research Grant
  • Gavin Dixon and Alexander Ivashkin (Eds.). Schnittke Studies. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (to be published by 2013).


Books based on the international researchers’ work at CRM:

  • Tiba, Dziun. Simfonicheskoye Tvorchestvo Alfreda Schnittke [Symphonic works by Alfred Schnittke]. (Moscow: Compozitor, 2004).
  • Scarpinella Bueno, Магсо Aurelio. Schnittke - musica раrа todos os tempos (Rio de Janeiro: Algor, 2007). 
  • Adamenko, Victoria. Neo-Mythologism in Music: From Scriabin and Schoenberg to Schnittke and Сrиmb. (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2007).
  • Eustachi, Paolo. In Volo fra suoni е immagini (Milano: Edizioni della Meridiana, 2008).
  • Schmelz, Peter. ‘Such freedom, if only musical: Unofficial Soviet music  during the Thaw (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). Review: Tempo, Vol. 64/253 (July 2010), 62-63


Articles ( selected):

  • Ivashkin, Alexander . 'Cooling the volcano: Prokofiev’s Cello Concerto Op. 58 and ‘Symphony-Concerto’ Op. 125.'. Three Oranges, Journal of the Serge Prokofiev Foundation, No. 18 (November 2009), 7-14
  • Ivashkin, Alexander. ' Symbols, Metaphors and Irrationalities in Twentieth-Century Russian Music' in  Mimesi, Verità e Fiction. Roma: Edusc, 2009, 69 – 87
  • Pyke, Cameron ( former CRM PhD student). 'Shostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony - a response to Britten's War Requiem?' In Benjamin Britten: New Perspectives on His Life and Work, edited by Lucy Walker. Boydell and Brewer, 2009
  • Dixon, Gavin (former CRM PhD student). 'Schnittke’s Polystylistic Techniques in his Third Symphony. In Alfred Schnittke. Analyse - Interpretation - Rezeption [Alfred Schnittke. Analysis - Interpretation - Reception], Ed. Christian Storch and Amrei Flechsig (= Schnittke-Studien 1), (Hildesheim, Zurich and New York: Olms, 2010)
  • Hibberd, Kristian (CRM PhD student). 'Shostakovich and ‘polyphonic’ creativity: the Fourteenth Symphony revisited’, in Shostakovich Studies 2, ed. Pauline Fairclough (Cambridge: CUP, 2010).
  • Ivashkin, Alexander. 'Russian Rules' , ABC Limelight, 2007/1, Sydney, Australian Broadcasting Corporation: 32-35
  • McMillin, Arnold. 'Russian Music in and around Chekhov', Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, 18, 1-2, 2004 (2005), 1-16
  • Dixon, Gavin. 'Distance Processes and the Nature of Quotation in the Mahler/Schnittke Piano Quartet' in Al'fredu Shnitke posviashchaetsia [Dedicated to Alfred Schnittke] vol. 3, (MGIM im. A.G. Shnitke [Alfred Schnittke Conservatory] Moscow 2003) pp. 187-195
  • Dixon, Gavin. 'Interacting Structural Concepts in Schnittke's Fourth Symphony' in Al'fredu Shnitke posviashchaetsia [Journal Dedicated to Alfred Schnittke] vol. 3, (MGIM im. A.G. Shnitke [Alfred Schnittke Conservatory] Moscow 2003) pp. 196-226
  • Jeremiah-Foulds, Rachel ( CRM PhD student). 'Galina Ustvolskaya and the Shostakovich Years' in  Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung, 2010, 20-25
  • Jeremiah-Foulds, Rachel. 'The Masculine Versus the Feminine in the Work of Soviet Composer Galina Ustvolskaya.'  Esharp Journal, Issue 9, Gender, Power and Authority, www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_41213_en.pdf. (This is an electronic journal).
  • Wilson, Tara (CRM PhD student).‘Au-delà du son et du silence : le post-minimalisme russe comme idéologieet pratique...’ : Revue No. In Musiques Nouvelles; October 2006: 53-57
  • Ivashkin, Alexander. 'Kod Schnittke' ['The Schnittke Code']. In  Al'fredu Schnittke posviashchaetsia [Dedicated to Alfred Schnittke: Schnittke Yearbook, 8]. Moscow: Kompozitor, 2011: 13-24
  • Medic, Ivana. 'Introduction to the Catalogue of Alfred Schnittke's Manuscripts from the Juilliard Manuscript Collection.' In Al'fredu Schnittke posviashchaetsia [Dedicated to Alfred Schnittke: Schnittke Yearbook, 8]. Moscow: Kompozitor, 2011: 109 - 157

Editions and Reconstructions:

  • Ivashkin, Alexander (Ed.). Schnittke. Nagasaki. Schnittke Symphony No. 0. Reconstruction of the manuscripts, and the first recording. BIS 1647, Stockholm, 2008.
  • Ivashkin, Alexander and Moraiti, Drosostalitsa (CRM PhD student). Schnittke’s Piano Preludes. Reconstruction of the manuscript and world premiere recording. Schnittke. Discoveries. Toccata Classics, TOCC 0091, London, 2009: http://www.alexanderivashkin.com/10press_article.php?issue=bbc_schnittke_cd
  • Alexander Ivashkin. Prokofiev. Songs of our Days. Cantata ( 1937). Reconstruction and 1st UK performance. London, 2009.
  • Berman, Boris (Ed.). Sergei Prokofiev. Piano Sonatas. Performance edition (Shanghai: SMPH, 2011).
  • Ivashkin, Alexander (Ed.) Schnittke Collected Works, Critical Edition (volumes I/5, II/7, II/9, II/10, II/13, III/1, III/8, III/15, III/19, IV/4, VI/1-2, VI/5, VII/2-3). St Petersburg: Compozitor, 2009 – 2012. Supported by The Leverhulme Research Grant and the Russian Government Grant.
  • Ivashkin, Alexander (Ed.) Shostakovich. Cello Concertos. Full score and Piano score. Four volumes of Shostakovich New Collected Works Edition. Moscow: DSCH, 2012. Supported by the Shostakovich Foundation.

Festivals and Symposia:

  • '(M)other Russia: 20 Years after Communism', jointly with BBC SO, Barbican Centre and the Institute of Musical Research, 2012;
  • The European Commission Music Festival 'Europe as seen by Russians, Russia as seen by Europeans', Moscow, 2011 (included a world premiere of Roger Redgate's new Cello Concerto, lectures by Michael Young, Roger Redgate, a performance of Dmitri Smirnov's work and Alexander Ivashkin's masterclass);
  • The International Qara Qaraev Festival, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2011;
  • Moscow Autumn, Moscow Russia (2010);
  • 'Between Two Worlds', jointly with RMA and London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Festival Hall/Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 2009;
  • A Study Day: Researching and Performing Russian Music (guest visitor composer Vladimir Martynov), February 2009;
  • 'Rostropovich Remembered' (incorporating The VTB International Competition), London, Wigmore Hall, 2009;
  • Sofia Gubaidulina Festival, Florence, Italy, 2009;
  • 'A Journey of the Soul', jointly with BBC, Barbican Centre, London, 2007; Shostakovich-100, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 2006;
  • World Congress/Festival of Choral Music, Kyoto, Japan, 2006;
  • 'Gubaidulina and Goebels' , Groningen, The Netherlands, 2006;
  • Shostakovich-100, Rutgers University (USA), 2006
  • A Schnittke Day, London , 2006;
  • Prokofiev Study Day, London , 2006;
  • Cheltenham International Music Festival, UK, 2005;
  • Summer School 'Russian Performance Traditions', London, 2005 ;
  • 'The Prokofievs: three generations', London, 2003;
  • 'Russia between East and West', Alcala de Henares , Madrid, Spain, 2003;
  • 'Music of Russian Underground', Lincoln Centre, New York, 2003;
  • 'Italians in Russia', Florence, 2003 ;
  • New Russian Music - between elite and pop' , Nizhni Novgorod, Russia ( 2003);
  • '50 years after Stalin' ( Southbank Centre, London, 2003);
  • 'A Day of Sofia Gubaidulina'( London, South Bank , 2002);
  • 'Rodion Shchedrin at 70', Wigmore Hall, London, 2002;
  • International Music Festival 'Ilholm' (Tashkent , Uzbekistan, 2002;
  • 'Seeking the Soul' ( BBC, Barbican London, 2001);
  • 'Russian Avant-garde: past, present and future' ( London, South Bank, 2001);
  • 'Russian Easter Weekend' ( London, Southbank Centre), 2000;
  • 'Shostakovich: 25 years on'( Glasgow, Concert Hall 2000).

CDs:

  • Sergei Rakhmaninov. The Complete Cello Works. Includes the premiere recording of the reconstructed Melody on a theme and the original unpublished version of the Vocalise . London: Chandos CHAN 10095, 2004. Review: http://www.alexanderivashkin.com/img/cds/24_rakhmaninov_review01.jpg
  • Alexander Ivashkin Plays Prokofiev: Prokofiev’s Complete Cello Concerto and Sonatas. Includes the unpublished Solo Cello Sonata and the Reconstruction/re-orchestration of the unfinished Concertino, op. 132 . Double CD with the detailed booklet. (London: Chandos CHAN, 2008). Review: http://www.alexanderivashkin.com/10press_article.php?issue=cd_unknown_prokofiev
  • Russian Cello Concertos 1960–2000. Alexander Ivashkin, cello/programme notes. With various orchestras. Alma Classics, MANU 5029, 2010. Denisov, Schnittke, Vustin, Shchedrin, including first recordings. Review: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10669511
  • Edison Denisov. The Blue Notebook. Alexander Ivashkin, cello.Tigran Alikhanov, piano, The Soloists Ensemble of the Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow: Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, 2010). SMC CD 0106. First Recording.
  • Alfred Schnittke: Discoveries. Yellow Sound, Dialogue for cello and instrumental ensemble, Variations for String Quartet ( reconstructed by Alexander Ivashkin from the archival materials at the Schnittke Archive, Goldsmiths), Piano Preludes. Alexander Ivashkin, cello/voice/ programme notes; Drosostalitsa Moraiti, piano ( CRM PhD student). London: Toccata Classics, 2010. TOCC 0091. Reviews: http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2010/Sept10/Schnittke_Discoveries_TOCC0091.htm http://www.alexanderivashkin.com/10press_article.php?issue=bbc_schnittke_cd
  • Sergei Vasilenko: Complete Music for Viola and Piano, 1st recording , based on CRM research. Elena Artamonova (CRM PhD student), viola, programme notes . With Nicholas Walker, piano. London: Toccata Classics TOCC 0127, 2011.
  • Nikolai Korndorf: Complete cello music. 1st recordings, based on CRM research. Alexander Ivashkin, cello, programme notes. London: Toccata Classics, TOCC 0128, 2012.

Selected World and UK Premieres (based on CRM Research):

  • Prokofiev . Songs of our Days. Goldsmiths Sinfonia. Alexander Ivashkin, conductor, 2007. http://www.alexanderivashkin.com/10press_article.php?issue=200711-12prok
  • Prokofiev. Seven, they are Seven. Goldsmiths Sinfonia. Alexander Ivashkin, conductor, QEH, 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o058hp294_c
  • Shostakovich War Songs; Serenada ( a fragment of his opera Black Monk), QEH, 2006. Schnittke – Violin Sonata No 0 , Southbank Centre, 2003
  • Schnittke – Yellow Sound, Piano Preludes, Concerto for Electric Instruments. Southbank Centre, 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99T1bc9FU4I
  • Schnittke. Cantus Perpetuus, for orchestra (1980). Reconstruction and World premiere. Saratov (Russia), 13.11.2011.  The State Russian SO conducted by Alexander Ivashkin