Galina Ustvolskaya

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RTÉ Contempo Quartet
Feast of Russian miniatures: This week’s classical music highlights

SUNDAY 17th, SEPTEMBER CLASSICAL Elisaveta Blumina (piano)  Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, noon, Adm free, hughlane.ie Dublin-based, St Peters(...)

Ustvolskaya, Silvestrov, Kancheli - Works for Piano and Orchestra album review: Scorched sounds in an echo chamber

This new collection by Elisaveta Blumina, the resourceful Dublin-based Russian pianist, begins with Galina Ustvolskaya’s 1946 Concerto, a work of scor(...)

In ‘Müntzers Stern’ by German composer Jakob Ullmann (above), the words of the text can be heard, but at a volume so low they cannot be readily deciphered
Is silence golden? Welcome to ‘the last frontier of music’

Ten years ago I interviewed the Paris-based American composer Tom Johnson before a concert he gave in one of Siobhán Cleary’s Ireland Promoting New M(...)