Ustvolskaya, Silvestrov & Kancheli: Works for Piano & Orchestra

Featuring

Thomas Sanderling
Elisaveta Blumina
Jürgen Spitschka
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
Galina Ustvolskaya
Valentin Silvestrov

Giya Kancheli

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Galina Ustvolskaya, the composer of the Piano Concerto, maintained that her works are not religious in a literary sense, but are filled with a religious spirit.

Performer Biography

Elisaveta Blumina is recognized as a significant interpreter of modern Russian repertoire, with her Mieczysław Weinberg recordings receiving wide acclaim.

Recording & Production

This recording of Galina Ustvolskaya's Concerto for Piano, String Orchestra and Timpani is of the original version, made before revisions to the published score were made in July 2015 at the behest of the composer's husband.

Performer Biography

Thomas Sanderling, the conductor, developed a friendship with Dmitri Shostakovich in the 1970s and led the German premieres of Shostakovich's Thirteenth and Fourteenth symphonies.

Performer Biography

Elisaveta Blumina, the pianist on this album, began her studies in St Petersburg and made her concert debut at age sixteen with the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra.

Compositional Technique

Giya Kancheli, the composer of Sio, is fascinated by "the mysterious silence that precedes the emergence of a tone" and uses silence to heighten the listener's impressions.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Valentin Silvestrov, the composer of Four Postludes and Hymn, believes that music is "above all, a chant, a song the world sings about itself - it is the musical testimony to life."