Artist: Ingrid Jacoby, Sir Charles Mackerras
Title: Shostakovich and Ustvolskaya
Year Of Release: 2003
Label: Dutton Labs
Genre: Classical
Quality: SACD (DSD64 2.0, 5.0; Image.iso) + scans
Time: 00:56:52 min
Total Size: 2,58 Gb (+1%rec.)
Ustvolskaya’s Piano Concerto (1946) was written around the time of her post-graduate studies with Shostakovich. The influence of the teacher, as one might imagine, is virtually unavoidable. Immediately apparent are the similarities in scoring & textural treatment to Shostakovich’s 1st Piano Concerto. To some, the work’s principal motif, a heavily accented, 2 note figure, may recall the jagged notes that open Shostakovich’s 5th & 8th Symphonies. Despite these parallels, Ustvolskaya’s 1 movement concerto still manages to hold its own ground. It is a serious bravura work that shuns the playful shenanigans of its purported model. Alternating dramatic gestures & reflective passages, its seriousness of purpose reaches beyond its 15mins length. After a pensive central section, the return of the 2 note figure in the final section provides an overall sense of symmetry. In the finale, the obsessive repetition of the figure with hammering rhythms looks ahead to the severe aesthetic that Ustvolskaya would eventually adopt in her maturity.
On this debut SACD from Dutton Laboratories, Sir Charles Mackerras and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra accompany Ingrid Jacoby in piano concertos by Shostakovich and Galina Ustvolskaya. Ingrid Jacoby has performed throughout the USA and Europe, playing with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors. Her recordings include a highly-acclaimed Beethoven CD, voted Classic CD Top release for 1995, a 1998 Korngold World premiere solo piano album and a disc of Russian Piano Music which received the Gramophone Magazine’s “Critics’ Choice” in 2001 and three stars (an outstanding performance and recording in every way) in the 2002/3 Penguin Guide.
Tracklist
Shostakovich / Дмитрий Шостакович:
Concerto No.1 in C minor, Op.35 for Piano, Trumpet and Strings
01] I: Allegro moderato
02] II: Lento
03] III: Moderato
04] IV: Allegro brio
Ustvolskaya / Галина Уствольская :
Concerto No.2 in А major, Op.102 for Piano
05] I: Allegro
06] II: Andante
07] III: Allegro
08] Concerto for Piano, Timpani and Strings
Lento assai Allegro moderato Andante (cantabile)
Pesante Cadenza Largo Grave (Tempo I) Pesante
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