Ustvolskaya, Silvestrov, Kancheli: Works for Piano & Orchestra

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Blumina and conductor Thomas Sanderling deliver a convincing account of a somewhat loosely structured work. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 9th Sep 2016
Catalogue No: GP678
Label: Grand Piano
Length: 57 minutes

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Ustvolskaya: Concerto for Piano, Strings & Timpani

Work length18:45

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Elisaveta Blumina, Jürgen Spitschka
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Thomas Sanderling

Sylvestrov: 4 Postludes for Piano & String Orchestra

Work length16:43

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Elisaveta Blumina
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Thomas Sanderling

No. 1, Larghetto - Andante

Track length5:36

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No. 2, Moderato, con moto poco rubato

Track length3:38

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No. 3, Larghetto, con moto poco rubato

Track length2:50

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No. 4, Larghetto, con moto poco rubato

Track length4:39

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Kancheli: Sio for Strings, Piano & Percussion

Work length16:22

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Elisaveta Blumina, Jürgen Spitschka
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Thomas Sanderling

Sylvestrov: Hymn

Work length6:05

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$1.75

Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Thomas Sanderling

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With two world première recordings, this programme highlights the Romantic and spiritual side of contemporary music from Russia and Eastern Europe. Galina Ustvolskaya’s early Concerto expresses a vision of beauty and suffering in a tonal language quite unlike her later works. Giya Kancheli’s Sio or ‘breeze’ is notable for its striking use of silence, as well as modal tunes, bass drones and wide dynamic extremes derived from Georgian folk music. Silvestrov’s devotional Hymn reflects his approach to music as ‘a song the world sings about itself’. Elisaveta Blumina’s acclaimed recording of Silvestrov’s solo piano works can be heard on GP639.

Prize Winner of the Award Echo Classic, Elisaveta Blumina is much in demand in the most prestigious concert halls of Europe. A child prodigy, she made her concert début as a soloist at the age of sixteen with the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra directed by Alexander Polyanichko with Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.1. She continued her studies at the University of Music and Theatre in Hamburg and later at the Conservatoire in Berne, with teachers including András Schiff, Evgeni Koroliov, Radu Lupu and Bruno Canino. She won the the International Brahms Piano Competition which culminated in her acclaimed recording of Brahms’s Piano Sonata No.2 and Klavierstücke, Op.76. She is recognised as one of the most important interpreters of modern Russian repertoire, and her Mieczysław Weinberg recordings have won wide acclaim. Her career has taken her to venues such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Laeisz-Halle in Hamburg and Carnegie Hall in New York.

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December 2016

Blumina and conductor Thomas Sanderling deliver a convincing account of a somewhat loosely structured work.

November 2016

The performances seem expert nonetheless, the piano tone not inappropriately hardening in Ustvlskaya’s more insistent writing. Recommended, should this mixed bag appeal

October 2016

Russia's 'new spiritualism' in a unique coupling.

Music Week October 2016

Unleavened Ustvolskaya, but the Kancheli and Silvestrov are yeasty enough; solid playing and direction.

Ustvolskaya, Silvestrov, Kancheli: Works for Piano & Orchestra

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