Ustvolskaya
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Galina Ustvolskaya: Symphonies Nos 1-5
Oliver Barlow, Arlo Murray, Joonas Ahonen, Sergej Merkusjev (narrator), Barbara Kozelj, Paul Beniston, Andrew Barclay, Pieter Schoeman, Alice Munday, Lee Tsarmaklis, David Whitehouse, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Karlsen
let me emphasise how much the mesmeric beauty of Ustvolskaya's pithy motifs manages to get under your skin, particularly when the performances from the soloists, LPO and Christian Karlsen are... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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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... —
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New. Ustvolskaya: Symphony No. 5 – Poulenc: La voix humaine
Frank Rosenwein, Liyuan Xie, Marc Damoulakis, Michael Sachs, Richard Stout, Tony F. Sias, Yasuhito Sugiyama, Sarah Aristidou, Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst
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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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Ustvolskaya, Silvestrov, Kancheli: Works for Piano & Orchestra
Elisaveta Blumina (piano)
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Sanderling
Blumina and conductor Thomas Sanderling deliver a convincing account of a somewhat loosely structured work. —
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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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Special offer. 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. —
