3: Piano Sonatas 1-6

by Galina Ustvolskaya / Marianne Schroeder

3: Piano Sonatas 1-6 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: hat ART
  • Country: Russia
  • Length: 1:09:36
  • Community rating: 3.97/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Swiss avant-garde pianist Marianne Schroeder fearlessly tackles the notoriously demanding, brutally percussive piano sonatas of Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya. The collection highlights her extreme use of terrifying dynamic contrasts and relentless, tone-cluster-heavy dissonance, cementing her fearsome reputation as 'the lady with the hammer'. It serves as an absolutely essential, unflinching document of severe Soviet-era modernism.

Genres

Descriptors: Modern, acoustic, unaccompanied-solo, dissonant, atonal, instrumental, piano, avant-garde, minimal

Tracklist

  1. Sonata No 1 (9:50)
  2. Sonata No 2 (8:57)
  3. Sonata No 3 (17:21)
  4. Sonata No 4 (10:24)
  5. Sonata No 5 (16:49)
  6. Sonata No 6 (6:15)

Credits

  • Galina Ustvolskaya - primary artist, composed by
  • Marianne Schroeder - primary artist, piano
  • Kazimir Malevi膷 - painting [inside cover painting]

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