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Piano Concerto

Composer: Galina Ustvolskaya
Performers: 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Marianna Shirinyan (Piano)
Conductor: Eva Ollikainen
Date of broadcast: 04 March 2020

"I am convinced that the music of Ustvolskaya will achieve world fame, and be valued by all who hold truth to be the essential element of music", so said her composition teacher, Shostakovich. Also a brilliant pianist she was known as 'the lady with the hammer' given the power and aggression of her music. This concerto displays all her compositional talents in this grim essay on anxiety following the end of WW2.

Composer: Galina Ustvolskaya
Performers: 麻豆官网首页入口 Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Marianna Shirinyan (Piano)
Conductor: Eva Ollikainen
Recording date: 04 February 2020
Date of broadcast: 04 March 2020

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