Program 802: Galina Ustvolskaya and the Piano Mavericks
KALW Broadcast Date: October 20, 2024 | Host: Joseph Bohigian
This program features the music of the Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006), including two of her piano sonatas, the Sonata for Violin and Piano, and her Concerto for Piano, String Orchestra and Timpani. Also included are works by like-minded maverick piano composers, Leo Ornstein and George Antheil. The program concludes with an interview with American composer Brian Baumbusch about his recent release with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players on Other Minds Records, Polytempo Music.
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Title: Piano Sonata No. 2 (1949)
Composer: Galina Ustvolskaya
Performer: Natalia Andreeva, piano
Recording Title: Russian Piano Music, Vol. 11
Record Label: Divine Art
Catalog Number: dda 25130
Title: Piano Sonata No. 6 (1988)
Composer: Galina Ustvolskaya
Performer: Natalia Andreeva, piano
Recording Title: Russian Piano Music, Vol. 11
Record Label: Divine Art
Catalog Number: dda 25130
Title: Sonata for Violin and Piano (1952)
Composer: Galina Ustvolskaya
Performers: Louise Chisson, violin and Tamara Atschba, piano
Recording Title: 20th Century Feminine
Record Label: Hänssler Classic
Catalog Number: HC20044
Title: Concerto for Piano, String Orchestra and Timpani (1946)
Composer: Galina Ustvolskaya
Performers: Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra; Elisaveta Blumina, piano; Thomas Sanderling, conductor
Recording Title: Ustvolskaya, Silvestrov, Kancheli
Record Label: Grand Piano
Catalog Number: GP678
Title: Suicide in an Airplane
Composer: Leo Ornstein
Performer: Daniele Lombardi, piano
Recording Title: Futurpiano
Record Label: LTM
Catalog Number: LTMCD 2541
Title: Violin Sonata No. 1
Composer: George Antheil
Performers: Marc Sabat, violin and Stephen Clarke, piano
Recording Title: Sabat/Clarke Duo
Title: Polytempo Music, Movement 5. Hex Tree
Composer: Brian Baumbusch
Performer: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Recording Title: Polytempo Music
Record Label: Other Minds Records
Catalog Number: OM 1047-2
Title: Polytempo Music, Movement 10. Heliks 45
Composer: Brian Baumbusch
Performer: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Recording Title: Polytempo Music
Record Label: Other Minds Records
Catalog Number: OM 1047-2
Title: Polytempo Music, Movement 4. Trifluence
Composer: Brian Baumbusch
Performer: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Recording Title: Polytempo Music
Record Label: Other Minds Records
Catalog Number: OM 1047-2
Title: Polytempo Music, Movement 3. Murmuration of Twelve
Composer: Brian Baumbusch
Performer: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Recording Title: Polytempo Music
Record Label: Other Minds Records
Catalog Number: OM 1047-2
Title: Polytempo Music, Movement 6. Canon of Twelve
Composer: Brian Baumbusch
Performer: San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
Recording Title: Polytempo Music
Record Label: Other Minds Records
Catalog Number: OM 1047-2
