大象传媒

During the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra's Gubaidulina Weekend in January 2007, the Royal String Quartet performed all four of Gubaidulina's unique quartets at St Giles, Cripplegate, in London's Barbican Centre. Now aged 76, Sofia Gubaidulina lived through the Soviet era, maintaining her artistic integrity in astonishingly powerful music inspired by her profound Russian Orthodox faith.

2/4. Quartet No 1, written in 1971, is a drama in which the four players take on disparate lives, rather than interacting together, eventually moving away from each other to the four corners of the concert platform.