Alfred Schnittke has been played on NTS in shows including Post-Geography, featured first on 15 August 2017. Songs played include Concerto For Choir, Variations On One Chord Op. 39 and Voices Of Nature For Ten Women´s Voices And Vibraphone.

Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (Russian: Альфред Гарриевич Шнитке; born November 24, 1934 in Engels, USSR; died August 3, 1998 in Hamburg) was a soviet composer, pianist, theoretician of music and educator. His music is derived from various traditions: Russian (Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky), Germanic (Gustav Mahler, Alban Berg), and American (Charles Ives).

On his mother’s side he was of Volga German and Roman Catholic extraction, on his…