Composer Re-envisions Little Known Concerto

Composer/conductor Eckart Schloifer discusses the up-coming premiere of his own version of a work by Gliere.

Eckart Schloifer Courtesy of Eckart Schloifer

Although a virtuoso and even spared the brutal days of the October revolution in Russia, Ukrainian composer Gliere remains unknown and almost unexplored today. The German composer Eckart Schloifer wants to change this fact—he will premiere his own version of Gliere’s Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Orchestra at the Clandeboye Festival in Ireland on Aug. 21. 

In an online interview for The Epoch Times, Mr. Schloifer shared both his feelings about and vision of this forgotten piece by Gliere.

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