Švankmajer + Ustvolskaya

Part one of a project for intermedia composition class - an excerpt from Czech animator Jan Švankmajer's "Dimensions of Dialogue" accompanied by the ninth movement from a composition of Гали́на Ива́новна Уство́льская (Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya) - her 1973 "Composition II 'Dies iræ' for eight double basses, wooden cube (43cm*43cm) & piano."

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• svankmajer
• ustvolskaya
• music
• video
• double
• bass
• intermedia
• animation
• scary
• russian
• czech
• claymation
• wooden
• cube

[lovesGenet]

Shostakovich was never this explicit. U can see her music!!!

[BOARBIG]

To tell the truth,her music has nothing in common with the politics and Stalin.

[luvgod]

this was sort of heartbreaking

[caligirl747]

I suppose this piece conveys the terrors of Stalin's regime....and her strange romance with Shostakovich...

[nirvanacin]

6 stars!

[SlikkTim]

Impressive, fits very well galina ustvolskaya's music.

[tsarina999]

It's Galina Ustvolskaya's '2nd Composition (Dies Irae) for piano, wooden box and eight double basses. It is the middle of three ambiguously titled 'Compositions' which were written between 1971-75.

[tsarina999]

There are recordings out there! Oleg Malov has recorded every work with piano and there are recordings on megadisc and melodiya (try amazon). There is a concert in Zurich on 9/12. Some works she left out of her catalogue in 1998, but its still about. I saw her CDs in shops in london. Her work was played at Royal festival hall in london last year as part of shostakovich centenary. I think interest in her is hotting up after her death. Can you tell i am fan?!

[elobos1]

damn!

nothing like lots of basses and a wooden box!