Galina Ustvolskaya – Past Concerts

Program includes works by Nicholas Mendonsa, Morton Feldman, Arshia Ashari, Galina Ustvolskaya, Katherine Balch, John Cage, Melissa Wang, Taylor James Bellamy, and Earle Brown.

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh — Selected works
Galina Ustvolskaya — Selected works
Sofia Gubaidulina — Selected works
Galina Grigorjeva — Selected works

Galina Ustvolskaya — Selected works
Galina Grigorjeva — Selected works

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel — Das Jahr ("The Year"), H. 385 ("I. January," "II. February," & "III. March")
Galina Ustvolskaya — Piano Sonata No. 4
Franz Liszt — Harmonies poétiques et religieuses S. 173 ("VIII. Miserere, d’après Palestrina")
Philip Glass — Wichita Vortex Sutra
Thomas Nickell — Piano Sonata (world premiere)
Franz Liszt — Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178

Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-flat major, Op. 22
Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata"
Galina Ustvolskaya — Piano Sonata No. 4
Frédéric Chopin — Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58

Three composers of the Soviet era chart opposing paths during and after the Cold War. A classic score by Rabinovitch-Barakovsky embraces mystical minimalism, while the octet of Galina Ustvolskaya is alternately fascinating and alarming.