Ustvolskaya, Galina (1919-2006)

[antongould]

Played the second movement of her Trio for clarinet, violin and piano on Night Tracks …..again impressed ……..

[antongould]

There is a chapter on the good lady in Kate Molleson’s new book …. I found it very interesting ….. quite a life

[Mandryka]

Listening to Composition No. 2 "Dies irae" - 8 double basses, piano, percussion (1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnZ0UBC07Ow&ab_channel=Vaterperzhekosmo

I nearly fell off my chair about 9 minutes in.

You might like it, be moved my it, awed by it, annoyed by it. It doesn't matter. It "exists" in the way the thoughts of a great philosopher exist, whether one agrees with them or not, whether one likes them or not.