[Galina Ustvolskaya] Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano (Score-Video)

Описание: This composition has 3 movements:
00:05 - I. Espressivo
07:36 - II. Dolce
10:38 - III. Energico

Performers:
Harmen de Boer (Clarinet)
Vera Beths (Violin)
Reinbert de Leeuw (Piano)

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Ustvolskaya’s music uses tonality as an expressive maneuver, but goes far beyond that, incorporating harsh timbres and aggressive attacks that add incidental overtones and elusive echoes, ghost tones. Her individual approach to melody is introduced in the 1949 Trio (where Shostakovich’s influence may be most evident), equal parts tenderness and courage; though there are times here and in the later works where lyricism is not allowed to blossom; rather, the line, all muscle and sinew, is stretched taut, or is shaped by the splintered notes of shattered chords. We can trace the repetitive, even hammered, rhythms back to Le Sacre du Printemps, that most Russian of Stravinsky’s works, and perhaps the lingering remnants of those Futurist scores from pre-Soviet days, but here, too, Ustvolskaya balances the tremendous rhythmic tension with contemplation – silence, framed by urgent intensities.

Ustvolskaya’s music is dark, somber, even remote when a solitary voice holds sway. Her rejection of recognizable form suggests that, metaphorically, Time is not a factor; as temporal references are acutely literal, the means to escape an oppressive Time and Place are found in spiritual, not social, values. Similarly, the chilling sparseness of textures becomes an emotional landscape, scarred, sometimes painfully severe, where inner strength is necessary for survival.

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(Source from CD Booklet, Written by Art Lange, January 1993)

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