April 30th, 2020
Boulez Ensemble
GALINA USTVOLSKAYA Chamber Music Project
Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano
Dona nobis pacem for Piccolo, Tuba, and Piano
Sonata for Violin and Piano GALINA
Grand Duet for Violoncello and Piano
Duet for Violin and Piano
Brahms: Fantasies No. 1 in D minor
“In Beethoven anniversary year, there will probably be many more “Moonlight”s, meaning the Sonata, than the real thing (though we’ve been lucky to see the crescent in close conjunction with Venus these past two nights). Not many pianists would dare to place it at the beginning of a programme. Denis Kozhukhin’s paradoxically no-nonsense poetry meant that a constant sense of motion culminated in the whirlwind of the finale, a steady move towards implosion mirrored in the piano transcription of Ravel’s La Valse at the end of the programme. In between came perfection in the form of pure song from Schubert and Grieg.”
