Schnittke: String Trio

1. how you come across to it:
Actually this is the original version of what Bashmet later arranged as Trio Sonata for strings.

2. why this piece?
Strangely, what I have been listening since 2009 are all in minor keys. Just acquired an out-of-print recording played by Kremer-Bashmet-Rostropovich trio which I longed for. Immensely intense playing. No matter in the original chamber form or version for strings, both are highly recommended. Schnittke makes all densely dissonant chords sound like a sharp knife piercing on salted skin. Tonal passages no longer bring resolution, but just prelude to another storm of dissonances. The ending is no ending.

3. (and...)
Once again, DO NOT listen to this when one is extremely pressed, or depressed.