The music is wonderfully brooding and persistent in what sounds like an almost funereal vengeance. It's like a primeval elegy that tells someone off and promises retaliation. Love the music, the instrumentation and the performance.
Uncompromising music that epitomizes the rough life she had under Stalin. Stalin did not approve so she always lived in obscurity and poverty, but outlived them all. There is no composer living or dead to compare with her, and she must be the best woman composer of modern times.
Могу ошибаться, но по замыслу самого композитора, контрабасы должны располагаться не дугой, а по прямой один за другим, создавая как бы слоистость звука. Судя по всему на этой сцене они просто бы не смогли расположиться таким образом, а жаль. И куб уже не тот, что придумала и практически сама сделала Уствольская. У этого огромного ящика звук другой. И идея куба упразднена, не просто так куб был выбран как геометрическая форма очевидно. I can be mistaken, but according to the composer's idea, the double basses should not be located in an arc, but in a straight line one by one, creating a kind of layered sound. Apparently on this scene they simply could not have settled this way, but it's a pity. And the cube is not the one that invented it and practically did Ustvolskaya itself. This huge box has a different sound. And the idea of the cube is abolished, not just because the cube was chosen as a geometric form obviously.
я был на этом самом концерте, который здесь на записи насчет контрабасов не знаю, но насчет куба читал или слышал (возможно от Дмитрия Лагачёва), что он подвергался модификациям в 2000х годах, когда Уствольская была в Амстердаме, под ее надзором (тогда сняли док фильм Возглас во Вселенную), но я могу ошибаться и путать, 10 лет прошло все таки
Gran compositora soviética. Evidentemente que no está a la altura de su maestro Shostakovich, pero debería tener más repercusión, en mi humilde opinión.
The only thing that I don't like about this recording is that the balance between the double basses and the piano are not the same. Otherwise, the music is beyond amazing!
I just found out about her and her work. I always reapect peoples work especially classical composers. This is profoundly awful. Its a musical piece that souds like is been made by inmates of a psychiatric institution. It brings pain in my ears. One of the worst things ive encountered in classical music.
I don't think anything in the classical cannon prepares you for this but for those of us who are into tribal music or certain more avant-garde strains of rock, this makes total musical sense.
+margatroid derek well I happen to find her music (esp the octet & the piece recorded by Rostropovich) much more enjoyable than anything I've heard by Merzbow but to each her or his own I guess. I'm sure you know Beethoven's late quartets were too dismissed as cacophonous nonsense at the time, as were works by Prokofiev and Stravinsky
+margatroid derek oh well, Shostakovich, Rostropovich and Vedernikov deemed her a great composer but I guess they weren't as attuned to what constitutes musicality as you obviously are
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this is the first time I'm experiencing a work by this composer and it's feeling like it's being tattooed in me forever right now. I'm in awe.
Rest in peace, Reinbert de Leeuw. Thanks for all your devotion.
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The music is wonderfully brooding and persistent in what sounds like an almost funereal vengeance. It's like a primeval elegy that tells someone off and promises retaliation. Love the music, the instrumentation and the performance.
One of the really great composers of our time! Also Reinbert de Leeuw is an important performer!
R.I.P. Reinbert de Leeuw.
What a brilliant and unique musician he was. R. I. P.
What a unique musician.
The percussion player is a real master!
Ustvolskaya's DIES IRAE composition:
Movement markers:
00:00 ~ I (quarter note = 69);
01:29 ~ II (quarter note = 58);
04:28 ~ III (quarter note = 72);
07:44 ~ IV (quarter note = 72);
08:41 ~ V (quarter note = 76);
10:53 ~ VI (quarter note = 69);
11:40 ~ VII (quarter note = 60);
14:05 ~ VIII (quarter note = 80);
15:07 ~ IX (quarter note = 69);
16:51 ~ X (quarter note = 69).
Thank you very much for sharing!
We cant click to timestamps so I wrote them down here:
00:00
01:29
04:28
07:44
08:41
10:53
11:40
14:05
15:07
16:51
Great upload and great channel. I love Ustvolskaya's music so much! Thanks!!
Great work. So powerful.
Didn't know Albert Einstein could play the piano so well though.
Here you have my like that other snobs and curmudgeons don't grant you.
Uncompromising music that epitomizes the rough life she had under Stalin. Stalin did not approve so she always lived in obscurity and poverty, but outlived them all. There is no composer living or dead to compare with her, and she must be the best woman composer of modern times.
agree with you. She and Gubaidullina. Galina was teacher of great composer Boris Tistchenko.
Stalin was dead in 1954. All soviet functioners was and are still guilty for the collapse of Russian culture.
I think thats not very accurate. She was a well respected composer and lived many years after Stalin's death.
USSR had an incredible production of art and it was easier to produce art there than in US. Shostakovich was a revolutionary...
Гениально.
Геноально... Спасибо за Г. И. У..
Percussionist is trying to wake the dead
This was the original theme to Sesame Street.
Fact.
amazing
Могу ошибаться, но по замыслу самого композитора, контрабасы должны располагаться не дугой, а по прямой один за другим, создавая как бы слоистость звука. Судя по всему на этой сцене они просто бы не смогли расположиться таким образом, а жаль. И куб уже не тот, что придумала и практически сама сделала Уствольская. У этого огромного ящика звук другой. И идея куба упразднена, не просто так куб был выбран как геометрическая форма очевидно.
I can be mistaken, but according to the composer's idea, the double basses should not be located in an arc, but in a straight line one by one, creating a kind of layered sound. Apparently on this scene they simply could not have settled this way, but it's a pity. And the cube is not the one that invented it and practically did Ustvolskaya itself. This huge box has a different sound. And the idea of the cube is abolished, not just because the cube was chosen as a geometric form obviously.
Interesting, thanks.
Что композитор хотела выразить этим произведением?
Why didn't de Leeuw use the cube?
я был на этом самом концерте, который здесь на записи
насчет контрабасов не знаю, но насчет куба читал или слышал (возможно от Дмитрия Лагачёва), что он подвергался модификациям в 2000х годах, когда Уствольская была в Амстердаме, под ее надзором (тогда сняли док фильм Возглас во Вселенную), но я могу ошибаться и путать, 10 лет прошло все таки
That second bass from the left has a great moustache.
ВХОЖДЕНИЕ!!!!
why are they not using the Cube? I thought de Leeuw would know about that
The percussionist has a facial expression of "what the hell am I doing with my life?" XD
Are you sure, that you dont talk of your own face?
Gran compositora soviética. Evidentemente que no está a la altura de su maestro Shostakovich, pero debería tener más repercusión, en mi humilde opinión.
The only thing that I don't like about this recording is that the balance between the double basses and the piano are not the same. Otherwise, the music is beyond amazing!
luisteren met je ogen, of?..
Pretentious rubbish. I love it.
stfu yellow teeth, this is music of solitude and supplication, you can't understand
Ah ah! I love it too, and I love your comment.
that poor piano...
I just found out about her and her work. I always reapect peoples work especially classical composers. This is profoundly awful.
Its a musical piece that souds like is been made by inmates of a psychiatric institution. It brings pain in my ears. One of the worst things ive encountered in classical music.
why wouldn't she write music instead of this atrocity
I don't think anything in the classical cannon prepares you for this but for those of us who are into tribal music or certain more avant-garde strains of rock, this makes total musical sense.
Merzbow's music makes no musical sense at all but at least can be enjoyable.
+margatroid derek well I happen to find her music (esp the octet & the piece recorded by Rostropovich) much more enjoyable than anything I've heard by Merzbow but to each her or his own I guess. I'm sure you know Beethoven's late quartets were too dismissed as cacophonous nonsense at the time, as were works by Prokofiev and Stravinsky
alright, the octet is not that bad. still not very musical. at least the composers you mentioned knew how to use dissonance.
+margatroid derek oh well, Shostakovich, Rostropovich and Vedernikov deemed her a great composer but I guess they weren't as attuned to what constitutes musicality as you obviously are
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