MUSIC

Ustovolskaya: Piano Sonata No. 4

MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2022
8:00 PM

Carnegie Hall
881 Seventh Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan

$16.50-$110
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Galina Ustvolskaya used to be one of the most puzzlingly overlooked composers of the 20th Century, but she’s finally coming into her own (not that she’s around to enjoy it — if in fact she’d care). Her work has immense pounding granitic power, but with a deep core of underlying spirituality. It is like nothing else. And Yefim Bronfman is just the Major Piano Star to play it. Which means he might not be the guy to play Chopin, also on the program (although this is BIG Chopin). As for the Beethoven, this will be one way to play him. But go for the Ustvolskaya.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: If Ustvolskaya were alive and attending this recital (and if I were her, I’d sure want to hear Yefim Bronfman play my work in Carnegie Hall), I have no doubt she’d go to famous dissident hangout Russian Samovar afterwards.