Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Markus Hinterhäuser & Reto Bieri
Release Date: 22 September 2014
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948108831
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Description
Chamber music by Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya is featured on the second ECM disc by Patricia Kopatchinskaja, recently described by Strings magazine as "the most exciting violinist in the world" and winner of the 2014 Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist of the Year Award.
The unique expressiveness of the work of Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006) speaks to the listener with directness and nuanced layers of sound, the powerful, rhythmic stringency of the music testifying to the relentlessness of her vision. Fiercely independent, Ustvolskaya maintained that her music sounded like the work of no other composer, living or dead, and put herself outside all stylistic "schools". Her work, said Viktor Suslin, has the "narrowness of a laser beam capable of piercing metal". Its sense of concentration is sometimes ferocious. Entering this sound-world calls for a special kind of commitment and intensity.
Kopatchinskaja and Markus Hinterhäuser play the Sonata (1952) and the Duet (1964) for violin and piano, and together with Reto Bieri, the Trio (1949) for clarinet, violin and piano, all recorded in the acoustically superb studio in Lugano which has become one of ECM's primary locations.
Kopatchinskaja's first ECM recording, of concertos by Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian, was described by BBC Music Magazine as "intensely beautiful" while The Strad noted that on this "remarkable, profoundly moving disc" the Moldovan violinist "plays with an intensity that's sometimes frighteningly raw, as if every note comes from deep within her".
Personnel: Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), Markus Hinterhäuser (piano), Reto Bieri (clarinet)
Tracklisting
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Vida Mikneviciute
Arvo Part
Thomas Larcher
John Holloway Ensemble
Heinz Holliger & Anton Kernjak
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Tonu Kaljuste
Karlheinz Stockhausen Michaels Reise
Andras Schiff
Narratio Quartet
Beau Soir Trio
Martin Rummel, Stefan Stroissnig
Hanspeter Oggier; Marina Vasilyeva
Antje Weithaas, Denes Varjon
Piano Duo Scholtes & Janssens
Matteo Cicchitti, Musica Elegentia
Ensemble Agamemnon, Francois Cardey
