The New Yorker
By Alex Ross
Ustvolskaya in Ojai, June 8th
The year’s most staggering feat of musical endurance belonged to the Austrian pianist Markus Hinterhäuser, who, in a non-relaxing but perhaps cathartic break from his duties as the director of the Salzburg Festival, played the six brutally difficult piano sonatas of Galina Ustvolskaya under a fierce sun at the Ojai Music Festival. Read more.