Monday Evening Concerts: For Galina Ustvolskaya April 13, 2009

GALINA USTVOLSKAYA: Symphony No. 5 (L.A. premiere)
KLAUS LANG: New Work (World premiere)
GALINA USTVOLSKAYA: Piano Sonata No. 4
GALINA USTVOLSKAYA: Piano Sonata No. 6
PIERLUIGI BILLONE: Mani. MATTA (World premiere)
GALINA USTVOLSKAYA: Composition No. 2 "Dies Irae" (L.A. premiere)

Marino Formenti, piano and conductor
Christian Dierstein, percussion
Paul Aksman, double bass
Theodore Chan, double bass
Gabriel Golden, double bass
Thomas Harte, double bass
Owen Levine, double bass
Stephanie Payne, double bass
Daisuke Takahashi, double bass
Dennis Trembly, double bass
Ariana Ghez, oboe
Movses Pogossian, violin
James Wilt, trumpet
Doug Tornquist, tuba

In 2006, the music world lost one of its most distinctive voices, the Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya. This tribute to her obsessive and haunting vision, conceived by pianist and conductor Marino Formenti, includes the harrowing Composition No. 2 for piano, eight double basses and wooden box, and Symphony No. 5, a dramatic setting of The Lord’s Prayer. World premieres by two of Europe’s most important younger composers who share her spiritual concerns are also heard in this season finale.

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