Alfred Schnittke - Faust Cantata - video 1989

Schnittke’s bizarre and overwhelming 1983 Faust Cantata, ’Seid nüchtern und wachet...’. This amazing composer deserves a special place in history for his range of music. The video comes from a 1989 film, Two Stories of Alfred Schnittke, which separates performances of the cantata and symphony no. 4 with interviews of Schnittke describing their creation. Valery Polyansky conducts. The other names are in the introduction. Альфред Шнитке - История доктора Иоганна Фауста - Валерий Полянский - Две истории Альфреда Шнитке - The Story of Doctor Johann Faust - Doctor Faustus