Galina Ustvolskaya все тексты (слова) песен, переводы, видео, клипы

Tobias Moster, cello
Ingrid Karlen, piano
Radio Zürich 1990s

Ustvolskaya especially liked Tobias Moster's play here.

Though Galina Ustvolskaya's music has only recently become known and celebrated in the west, it has already gathered its share of truisms -- metaphor-stamps which now seem inseparable from the music itself. One of the more useful is the stone-simile: Ustvolskaya's music is "hewn from granite," hard and unforgiving as rock; it's got the craggy stiffness of flint and it's as heavy as a marble slab. And, appropriately, those who love her music have already grown skeptical of such metaphors.