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.

3/4. In her Quartet No 4, written in 1993, Gubaidulina creates a mysterious soundworld through the use of a pre-recorded soundtrack of the players bouncing a rubber ball on their strings to create a quiet pitched tremolo.