Ustvolskaya, Galina (1919-2006)

[antongould]

One of the hardest ever Alphabet Associations tests ....... Violin Sonata played as an interval piece on In Concert on 05/02/2020 ... like all of her music I have managed to hear I really enjoyed it. Anyone have any other recommendations ... ???

[HighlandDougie]

I like her Octet (it's in the big Schönberg Ensemble/de Leeuw box) and another take on it is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElpBUGPWNvw

[Serial_Apologist]

I love her name - U S T V O L S K A Y A just trips off the tongue .

[Pulcinella]

Never heard of her.


But her piano sonatas seem popular, to judge by the number of recordings:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/composers/2892--ustvolskaya

(Host: for consistency, could you add a comma after the surname?)

[Bryn]

Never heard of her.


But her piano sonatas seem popular, to judge by the number of recordings:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/composers/2892--ustvolskaya

(Host: for consistency, could you add a comma after the surname?)

She and Shostakovich were very close, musically. He put great trust in her opinions regarding his music.

[antongould]

I like her Octet (it's in the big Schönberg Ensemble/de Leeuw box) and another take on it is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElpBUGPWNvw

Thanks very much HD .... again enjoyed that ......

[antongould]

Never heard of her.


But her piano sonatas seem popular, to judge by the number of recordings:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/composers/2892--ustvolskaya

(Host: for consistency, could you add a comma after the surname?)

Many apologies Pulcers and Hosts for omitting the Composers Comma ..... so next time it’s Simon, Paul ......

[gurnemanz]

Elizabeth Wilson tells us in her book, Shostakovich A Life Remembered, that he proposed to her ... twice. His daughter, Galina, wrote that after the death of his first wife, Nina, he consulted her and her brother about the possibility. He proposed to her again after divorcing his second wife. His personal relationship with Ustvolskaya remains something of an enigma. She was reluctant to talk about it and destroyed all his letters to her.

[Pulcinella]

Many apologies Pulcers and Hosts for omitting the Composers Comma ..... so next time it’s Simon, Paul ......

No problem.
The name just confused me more than a little until I remembered the 'format'!

[kea]

She disavowed virtually all association with Shostakovich after his death, later also dismissing him as a Soviet apparatchik during a time when she knew this would harm his reputation, etc. So whatever happened with their relationship, it doesn't seem to have ended well.

It's difficult to see many musical similarities either, at least in the later works. I'm a big fan of virtually all the mature music, especially the 5th and 6th piano sonatas, the Grand Duet for cello and piano, Compositions 1, 2 & 3, and Symphonies 2-5.

[Bryn]

She disavowed virtually all association with Shostakovich after his death, later also dismissing him as a Soviet apparatchik during a time when she knew this would harm his reputation, etc. So whatever happened with their relationship, it doesn't seem to have ended well.

It's difficult to see many musical similarities either, at least in the later works. I'm a big fan of virtually all the mature music, especially the 5th and 6th piano sonatas, the Grand Duet for cello and piano, Compositions 1, 2 & 3, and Symphonies 2-5.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5a0e/b1a0da1b1e77a710462405100533e218f0a7.pdf?_ga=2.226898333.1014490041.1582116449-178955010.1582116449

See, especially, page 185 et seq.

Hell hath no fury . . . ? Shostakovich married Irina Antonovna Supinskaya just one year after Ustvolskaya's 1961 rejection of his further proposal of marriage to Galina.

[Serial_Apologist]

Did anyone hear her Piano Concerto on today's Afternoon Concert? An early work showing its influences but very powerful, and definitely the programme's high spot.

[antongould]

Did anyone hear her Piano Concerto on today's Afternoon Concert? An early work showing its influences but very powerful, and definitely the programme's high spot.

I didn’t S_A but thankfully we have Sounds .....

[antongould]

I didn’t S_A but thankfully we have Sounds .....

Have now listened S_A and, again, I was impressed ..... thanks again .....

[Serial_Apologist]

Have now listened S_A and, again, I was impressed ..... thanks again .....