Ray Bayles:

>For someone new to Ustvolskaya, somebody please recommend a few CD's
>currently available at Tower or Amazon that would be a good introduction
>to this composer who has generated so much talk.

The most eaily availble I would guess is the Philips release of her
'Compositions' series, stemming from the early 1970'tes, played by the
Dutch Schonberg Ensemble [442 532-2] conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw

The most complete survey of her music is out on the Begian label MegaDisc,
I dont know if any of Rays favoured companies carry this label, I suggest
to check their homepage: http://gallery.uunet.be/megadisc/index.html (You
can buy directly from the label)

As for suggestions, I would not start with the piano sonata CD - otherwise
the one with GU's symphonies is a good starting point.

I suggest that You avoid the Barton Workshop on Etcetera, due to lack of
insight and power in this music.

Reinbert De Leeuw was also involved with two releases on the Swiss label
HatHut, which are mostly fine but not as intense as the MegaDisc releases.

peter lundin, gothenburg.se -  Counting the days: DDS 100 (1906-2006)