Ustvolskaya: Trio For Violin, Clarinet And Piano

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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. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 20th Oct 2017
Catalogue No: HATNOWART194
Label: hat
Series: hat[now]ART
Length: 58 minutes

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Ustvolskaya: Trio for Violin, Clarinet & Piano

Work length16:50

$3.50

$4.90

Harmen de Boer, Vera Beths, Reinbert de Leeuw

I. Espressiv

Track length8:30

$1.50

$2.10

II. Dolce

Track length3:33

$1.00

$1.40

III. Energico

Track length4:47

$1.00

$1.40

Ustvolskaya: Piano Sonata No. 5

Work length17:52

Album only

Reinbert de Leeuw

Ustvolskaya: Duet for violin and piano

Work length23:59

Album only

Vera Beths, Reinbert de Leeuw

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Ustvolskaya’s music is dark, somber, even remote when a solitary voice holds sway. Her rejection of easily recognizable form suggests that, metaphorically, time is not a factor; as temporal references are acutely literai, the means to escape an oppressive time and place are found in spiritual, not social, values. Similarly, the chilling sparseness of textures becomes an emotional landscape, scarred, sometimes painfully severe, where inner strength is necessary for survival. But there is, too, especially in the Duet For Violin And Piano, a sanctity of mood (shared with the later Shostakovich, when he was obsessed with death, and where, in his final works such as the Viola Sonata and Sonata For Violin And Piano, the influence of Ustvolskaya may be felt). ln moments like this, rare is the music where the human will is so immediate, so enduring. Art Lange

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March 2018

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.

Ustvolskaya: Trio For Violin, Clarinet And Piano

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