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Programme notes the short and utterly unforgettable piece that opens the program is the most emblematic. Galina Ustvolskaya, an avant-garde Soviet composer, was a student of Shostakovich. But in this strange relationship, it was actually Shostakovich who saw himself as the student. He predicted that her work “will be valued by all who hold truth to be the essential element of music”. Nicknamed “the lady with a hammer”, she was a bizarre, uncomfortably uncompromising character, who sacrificed her professional life and ambitions to dedicate herself fully to her artistic principles. She was aware that her music would be disapproved of by the Soviet regime, and kept her artistic work largely private for decades. It is hard to say whether her oeuvre of 21 pieces is so sparse due to this or because she would destroy, or in her own words, “exterminate” any work that she ultimately didn’t find perfect. ‘There is no link whatsoever between my music and that of any other composer, living or dead’, claims Ustvolskaya in her typical austere manner. She also discouraged any analysis of her music. Indeed, it is pointless to try to explain the impact of her final Piano Sonata. Simply one of the most singular, astonishing works of art of any time, this is the music that seems to transcend its own medium. 6
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