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Chamber, Duos, Violin & Piano Duos, Ustvolskaya (composer)
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Galina Ustvolskaya: Trio, Sonata, Duet
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Markus Hinterhäuser (piano), Reto Bieri (clarinet)
Ustvolskaya's choice of dissonance and evocative chords have a precision of aural imagination which seem to bloom in ECM's empty hall acoustic. —
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Schleiermacher aptly describes the most percussive sections of the compellingly performed Fifth Sonata as ‘a bloodbath on the keys’. There are also some moments of repose, but in Schleiermacher’s... —
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Ustvolskaya: Trio For Violin, Clarinet And Piano
Reinbert De Leeuw (piano), Vera Beths (violin) & Harmen De Boer (clarinet)
De Leeuw and his fellow musicians give forceful and precise performances in this first recording of this deeply courageous and unrelentingly sombre music to be made outside Russia. —
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Soviet Chamber Music
David Geringas (cello), Tatjana Schatz, Edgar Krapp, Markus Stekeler, William Zien, Bernd Osten, Werner Hagen, Walter Hilgers
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New. Introduction to Female Composers
Michel Sénéchal (tenor), Rosario Marciano (piano), Mary Louise Boehm (piano), Elizabeth French (soprano), Emily Dickens (soprano), Tempe Nell (soprano), Monika Schwamberger, Willy Freivogel (flute), Otfried Miller (harpsichord, piano), Roswitha Sperber (mezzo-soprano), The Macalester Trio, Paul Freed...
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Private Collection, Vol. 2: Chamber Music
Alexei Lubimov (soloist), Oleg Kagan (soloist), Natalia Gutman (soloist), Mikhail Tolpygo (soloist), Lev Mikhailov (soloist), Tatiana Grindenko (soloist), Chamber Ensemble Studio for New Music, Igor Dronov
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Misterioso: Part, Silvestrov & Ustvolskaya
Alexei Lubimov (piano), Alexander Trostiansky (violin) & Kirill Rybakov (clarinet)
These are all magnificent performances, as one might expect from these three musicians, who regularly perform together as a trio, and their sound is superbly and rawly caught by ECM's recording. —
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Galina Ustvolskaya: Complete Works for Violin and Piano
Sonata (1952) & I Duet (1964)
Evgeny Sorkin (violin), Natalia Andreeva (piano)
The passion for this music is evident in the performances of the sonata and duet, the former seemingly a fist raised in defiance of the state, the latter seemingly reeling. —
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The CDs, DVDs and book are housed in a large, beautifully produced deluxe presentation box: 32x32cm. It is laudable that Varsi’s legacy has now been made available, in this age where reissues... —
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35 CDs + 5 DVD Videos
$90.25
