... in a frenzy of emotions   Markus Hinterhäuser

Galina Ustvolskaya, one of the most important and outstanding composers of the 20th century, wrote her six piano sonatas over a period of more than 40 years. The withdrawn Russian hardly ever spoke about her deeply emotional music with its pronounced extremes. I don’t like analysing music. For me, other things are more important: nature, stillness, peace. But not people. I like to sit under a birch tree – just like it used to be when I was writing my Second Symphony. That’s all I need. Solitude is best. It is there that I find myself, and that is really what gives me life.

Markus Hinterhäuser offers an intense experience of the rift between furious indictment and plaintive despair – driven by religious hope – in Ustvolskaya’s piano sonatas.

Markus Hinterhäuser – Piano