Galina Ustvolskaya 1

1. Trio: Espressivo/Dolce/Energico

2. Sonata No. 5 in Ten Movements

3. Duet

Galina Ustvolskaya 1,Reinbert de Leeuw (Piano),Vera Beths (Violin),Harmen de Boer (Clarinet),hatHUT,20th/21st Century Sonata/Sonatina for Keyboard,Chamber,Chamber Music,Keyboard,Modern Composition

Average customer rating: Great collection of 19th/20th Century music It's about Time!

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Tracks:

1. Concertino For Harp (Allegretto)
2. Three Pieces For Cello And Piano (Vite et nerveusement rythme)
3. Sonnets Fro The Portuguese (How Do I Love Thee?)
4. Das Jahr (Mai)
5. Du'un Matin de Priintemps
6. Ballad In Db
7. Symphony No. 3 (Largo)
8. Missa Gaia (Introit)
9. Sonata (Impetuoso)
10. Sonata (Adagio
11. Ten Preludes For Cello (Preludes 1 - 4): Staccato - Legato
12. Ten Preludes For Cello (Preludes 1 - 4): Legato - Staccato
13. Ten Preludes For Cello (Preludes 1 - 4): Con Sordino - Senza Sordino
14. Ten Preludes For Cello (Preludes 1 - 4): Ricochet
15. Travel Song
16. Three Fantasy Movements (Slow)
17. Orfeo II (Orpheo Laments)
18. Sonata No. 6

Customer Reviews:

Great collection of 19th/20th Century music.......2003-08-12

This is a great collection of works from 19th and 20th century women composers. Keep in mind, it is only a small sample of what's available, but an excellent place to start. It is also a good choice if you are a teacher wanting to introduce women composers to your class and do not want to invest in dozens of CDs. There are no large-scale works on this CD, so it is ideal as a sampler (or for use with kids in a classroom setting). I highly recommend this CD.

It's about Time!.......2001-12-07

A top-notch sampling of mainly 20th-century music by women composers, including Lili Boulanger and Pulitzer Prize-winners Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and Shulamit Ran, this cd proves that the music has been excellent all along. What we have needed are good recordings of superior performances. The samples often are brief--e.g., a single movement from Clarke's cello sonata--yet do provide jumping off points for more concentrated pursuit of favorite composers. Those uninitiated in women's works will become familiar here with some of the best of the last 150 years: Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Thea Musgrave, and on and on. I hope every author of a text on music since 1840 will come to know and adore this cd, then include the music in their discussions of music history. It's about time!

Average customer rating: Music From Behind the Iron Curtain very nice

Górecki: Solo Piano Works Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Górecki, Henryk Mikolaj | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Part | Part, Arvo | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Górecki: Miserere Henryk Górecki: Already It Is Dusk (String Quartet No. 1, Op. 62) (1988) / Quasi una Fantasia (String Quartet No. 2, Op. 64) (1990-91) - Kronos Quartet Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs" Alina - Arvo Part Henryk Mikolaj Górecki: Kleines Requiem für Eine Polka (Little Requiem for a Polka), Op. 66 (1993) / Concerto for Harpsichord & String Orchestra, Op. 40 (1980) / Good Night, Op. 63 (1990) - London Sinfonietta ASIN: B000001SIC Release Date: 1995-05-23

Tracks:

1. Fur alina
2. Variationen zur gesundung von arinushka: Moderato
3. Variationen zur gesundung von arinushka: II
4. Variationen zur gesundung von arinushka: III
5. Variationen zur gesundung von arinushka: Piu mosso
6. Variationen zur gesundung von arinushka: V
7. Variationen zur gesundung von arinushka: VI
8. Sonata No. 1: Allegro molto, con fuoco
9. Sonata No. 1: Grave pesante e corale
10. Sonata No. 1: Allegro vivace, ma non troppo
11. Four Preludes: Molto agitato
12. Four Preludes: Lento-recitativo
13. Four Preludes: Allegro scherzando
14. Four Preludes: Molto allegro quasi presto
15. Twelve Preludes: I
16. Twelve Preludes: II
17. Twelve Preludes: III
18. Twelve Preludes: IV
19. Twelve Preludes: V
20. Twelve Preludes: VI
21. Twelve Preludes: VII
22. Twelve Preludes: VIII
23. Twelve Preludes: IX
24. Twelve Preludes: X
25. Twelve Preludes: XI
26. Twelve Preludes: XII
27. Sonata No. 6: Espressivissimo

Customer Reviews:

Music From Behind the Iron Curtain.......2001-11-20

There is some titular confusion about this CD. And the CD isn't much better at describing its own contents. The cover lists only Gorecki's 1st Piano Sonata and his Four Preludes,and Arvo Pärt's For Alina and Variations for the Convalescence of Arinuschka. Galina Ustvolskaya's Twelve Preludes and Sonata No. 6 only receive mention on the back. That Ustvolskaya gets no cover credit is a real shame, and yet another triumph of marketers over artists; her two works far outshine the Pärt in every respect except simplicity, and take up almost half of the CD.

The Pärt compositions are so slight as to be almost non-existent. Those who know his style will be familiar with his aesthetic, but even they may not be prepared for the extremes to which Pärt pares away everything except the barest sound in For Alina. A simple modal melody is fragmented into tiny groups of notes--two or three at a time. Harmony consists only of the simplest of bass lines, playing tonic or dominant only and in the same rhythm of the melody; all is as soft as possible. The result is quite beautiful, and somewhat reminiscent of a Picasso sketch which elucidates the response, "A child could have done that!" Ah, yes, but they didn't.

The relentless pounding of clusters in Ustvolskaya's Sixth Sonata might well evoke a similar response, although at the opposite extreme, "A child could have done that, but if he did, he'd be punished!" Pärt and Ustvolskaya are worlds away in their artistic result, but an abstract consideration of their technique reveals a predilection for simple rhythms and textures and a concern for sound rather than harmonic progression. Germanic development is seldom an issue for either composer--even in Pärt's Variations he seems to approach the idea with reticence. It is as though the variation allows him repetition, rather than the repetition which allows him variation.

More traditionally based are the remaining compositions: Ustvolskaya's Twelve Preludes, and Gorecki's Sonata No. 1 and Four Preludes. These pieces are all firmly based in the Prokofiev/Shostakovich school--music with its foundation in tonal harmony, but with the techniques of Primitivism and folk music having a profound influence. Gorecki's works will come as a surprise to those who know him only from the Third Symphony, the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. These are aggressive, violent pieces at the opposite extreme of that work; rather as if Prokofiev had re-worked Bartok's Allegro Barbaro because it was too gentle. [The CD notes, by Mark Swed, claim that "Gorecki ends his sonata with a pounding resonance that overwhelms any pianistic thunder in Prokofiev..." As much as I like the Gorecki and react to it viscerally, I must strongly disagree. Prokofiev's Seventh Sonata, for example, is a truly astonishing work by a fully mature and magnificent composer; Gorecki's is an enthusiastic work by a young and inexperienced composer (although he revised it twice, most recently in 1990) and any resemblance is a credit to Gorecki but not at Prokofiev's expense.]

The performance, by the truly remarkable pianist David Arden, is superb. I must admit to slightly preferring the recording of Ustvolskaya's Sonatas by Markus Hinterhauser on the col legno label (WWE 1CD 20001), which is both more brutal and more reserved at times.

very nice.......2000-05-06

begins with the lovely spaciousness of Part(the only true 'tame' pieces on the cd) and ends with the huge, frantic clusters of Ustvolskaya. and just about everything else in between. the most amazing of all of these pieces is Gorecki's Sonata #1. a thrilling ride, definitely NOT something you could go to sleep to. i know of no other recordings of this sonata, but seeing that Arden gave the US premiere after studying with the guy, i trust his interpretation. i don't recommend this recording to just anyone as some of the music is difficult to swallow, but recommend it highly to people like minimalism with a loud and exciting bite(the two piano sonatas especially). in my mind, a winner

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Galina Ustvolskaya: Piano Concerto / Symphony No.1 Manufacturer: Megadisc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008LLHU Release Date: 2005-09-20

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#1 Manufacturer: Hat Hut ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008F7EI Release Date: 1995-10-19

Tracks:

1. Trio: Espressivo/Dolce/Energico
2. Sonata No. 5 in Ten Movements
3. Duet

Average customer rating: Excellent composer, good performances

Galina Ustvolskaya 2 - Twelve Preludes for Piano (1953) / Grand Duet for Cello & Piano (1959) / Composition No. 1"Dona Nobis Pacem" (1970/71) Galina Ustvolskaya (Composer) , Marianne Schroeder (Piano) , Rohan de Saram (Cello) , Felix Renggli (Piccolo) , and David Le Clair (Tuba) Manufacturer: Hat Hut ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001YTA Release Date: 1993-11-27

Tracks:

1. Twelve Prlds: I
2. Twelve Prlds: II
3. Twelve Prlds: III
4. Twelve Prlds: IV
5. Twelve Prlds: V
6. Twelve Prlds: VI
7. Twelve Prlds: VII
8. Twelve Prlds: VIII
9. Twelve Prlds: IX
10. Twelve Prlds: X
11. Twelve Prlds: XI
12. Twelve Prlds: XII
13. Grand Duet: I - Rohan De Saram/Marianne Schroeder
14. Grand Duet: II - Rohan De Saram/Marianne Schroeder
15. Grand Duet: III - Rohan De Saram/Marianne Schroeder
16. Grand Duet: IV - Rohan De Saram/Marianne Schroeder
17. Grand Duet: V - Rohan De Saram/Marianne Schroeder
18. Composition No.1-Dona Nobis Pacem: I - Marianne Schroeder/Rohan De Saram/Felix Renggli/David Le Clair
19. Composition No.1-Dona Nobis Pacem: II - Marianne Schroeder/Rohan De Saram/Felix Renggli/David Le Clair
20. Composition No.1-Dona Nobis Pacem: III - Marianne Schroeder/Rohan De Saram/Felix Renggli/David Le Clair

Customer Reviews:

Excellent composer, good performances.......2000-08-16

First of all, it's not Galina Ustvolskaya herself who plays here (as anounced by Amazon), but a fine group of performers: Marianne Schroeder (piano), Rohan de Saram (violoncello, known as a member of the Arditti Quartet), Felix Renggli (piccolo) and David Le Clair (tuba). Ustvolskaya (1919- ) is one of the best Soviet/Russian composers of the 20th century. She has a unique and very strong personality, with an always incredibly original language. The most interesting piece here is the more recent one, "Composition No 1 / Dona Nobis Pacem" (1970/1971). The other two, her Twelve Preludes for piano (1953) and the "Grand Duet" (1959), are important productions of her youth. The Preludes, particularly, are a very useful example of how, during the Stalin era, a really good composer could create really good music in spite of all.

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Petersburg Chamber Music Secrets Manufacturer: Beaux Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Shostakovich | Shostakovich, Dmitri | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000056OEW Release Date: 2001-02-27

Tracks:

1. Trio, Op.8 - St. Peters Trio
2. Con: I. Allegro Con Moto
3. Con: II. Allegro Molto
4. Con: III. Allegro Non Troppo
5. Trio: I. Espressivo
6. Trio: II. Dolce
7. Trio: III. Energico

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Galina Ustvolskaya 1 Reinbert de Leeuw (Piano) , Vera Beths (Violin) , and Harmen de Boer (Clarinet) Manufacturer: Hat Hut ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001YSX Release Date: 1992-01-01

Tracks:

1. Trio: Espressivo/Dolce/Energico
2. Sonata No. 5 in Ten Movements
3. Duet

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Galina Ustvolskaya: The Complete Piano Sonatas Manufacturer: Conifer ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000024E9 Release Date: 1996-02-27

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Piano Sonatas Manufacturer: Col Legno ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000245Y2 Release Date: 1998-01-01

Tracks:

1. Sonato No. 1 [1947]
2. Sonata No. 2 [1949]
3. Sonata No. 3 [1-800 Dis N Dub Mix]
4. Sonata No. 4 [1957]
5. Sonata No. 5 [1-9]
6. Sonata No. 6 [1-2]

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Galina Ustvolskaya: Pianoconcerto; Symphony Nr 1 Manufacturer: Megadisc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00005O7YJ Release Date: 2001-07-31

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