Galina Ustvolskaya: Chamber Music
Mikhail Waiman (violin), Oleg Malov (piano), Maria Karandashova (piano), Oleg Stolpner (cello)
Here is an excellent introduction to Galina Ustvolskaya, whose direct and uncompromising style amazingly reached maturity under Stalin…Only the earliest recording really shows its age with a...
Galina Ustvolskaya: Chamber Music
Mikhail Waiman (violin), Oleg Malov (piano), Maria Karandashova (piano), Oleg Stolpner (cello)
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Here is an excellent introduction to Galina Ustvolskaya, whose direct and uncompromising style amazingly reached maturity under Stalin…Only the earliest recording really shows its age with a...
About
Shostakovich highly appreciated her music, and predicted her worldwide recognition. In his String Quartet No. 5 and in Suite on Words by Michelangelo (No. 9) he used the second theme from the finale of Trio for clarinet, violin, and piano by Ustvolskaya. He wrote in a letter to her, “it’s not you that are under my influence, but I’m under yours.”
Contents and tracklist
- Oleg Malov (piano)
- Alexander Kosoyan (oboe), Khanyafi Chinakaev (oboe), Alexander Stang (violin), Arkady Liskovich (violin), Abram Dukor (violin), Feodor Saakov (violin), Valery Znamensky (percussion)
- Mikhail Waiman (violin), Maria Karandashova (piano)
- Oleg Stolpner (cello), Oleg Malov (piano)
Awards and reviews
Christmas 2017
Here is an excellent introduction to Galina Ustvolskaya, whose direct and uncompromising style amazingly reached maturity under Stalin…Only the earliest recording really shows its age with a rather dry and muffled acoustic: but the actual performance of the Violin Sonata by Mikhail Waiman and Maria Karandashova is excellent. So too are the other performances.
December 2017
The Violin Sonata (1952) emerges as Ustvolskaya’s most taciturn and equivocal statement; the Grand Duet (1959) as arguably her most encompassing – its interplay of cello and piano exuding an abrasiveness but equally a fervency in the introspective closing section…Those yet to take the plunge into Ustvolskaya should dive head-first into this welcome issue.
