Collaboration
Sofia Gubaidulina has formed many long and successful musical partnerships. Donald Macleod and Gerard McBurney explore the creative ideas these relationships have generated.
Sofia Gubaidulina has formed many long and successful musical partnerships. Today, Donald Macleod and Gerard McBurney explore some of the creative ideas these relationships have generated.
To mark Sofia Gubaidulina鈥檚 ninetieth birthday, Donald Macleod and Gerard McBurney explore five different aspects of her progressive and distinctive music. Gubaidulina has been living in Germany since 1992 and is still busy composing today. When she was born in 1931 in Tatarstan, the Soviet Union was under Stalinist rule. Up until her emigration, she worked as a composer under the strictly regulated conditions determined by Soviet cultural policies. Across the week we get an insight into the life of a composer behind the Iron Curtain, as Gubaidulina developed her own creative path, un-swayed by any hint of ideological pressure.
One of Gubaidulina's earliest collaborators was the virtuoso percussionist Mark Pekarsky, and among the other eminent musicians she's written for are the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.
Glorious Percussion (excerpt)
Lucerne Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Nott, conductor
Hour of the Soul (1976/1988) for solo percussionist, mezzo-soprano and large orchestra (excerpt)
Mark Pekarsky, percussion
Lina Mkrchan, mezzo-soprano
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Timur Mybaev, conductor
Canticle of the Sun (excerpt)
The Maker of the Four Elements - Air, Water, Fire and Earth
[fig.34]... Laudato si, mi Signore, per sora Luna e le stele...
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Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
London Voices,
London Symphony Orchestra
Ryusuke Numajiri, conductor
In Tempus Praesens for violin and orchestra (excerpt)
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, conductor
Quasi hoquetus
Alexander Bakhchiyev, piano
Natalia Gigashvili, viola
Valeri Popov, bassoon
Producer: Johannah Smith
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Sofia Gubaidulina
Glorious Percussion (excerpt)
Conductor: Jonathan Nott.- BIS CD 1752.
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Sofia Gubaidulina
Hour of the Soul
Performer: Mark Ilyich Pekarsky. Singer: Lina Mkrtchyan. Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Timur Mynbaev. -
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Sofia Gubaidulina
The Canticle of the Sun (excerpt)
Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich. Choir: London Voices. Conductor: Ry奴suke Numajiri.- DG 00028947778622.
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Sofia Gubaidulina
In Tempus Praesens
Performer: Anne鈥怱ophie Mutter. Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.- DG 00028947778622.
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Sofia Gubaidulina
Quasi Hoquetus
Performer: Alexander Bakhchiev. Performer: Natalia Gigashvili. Performer: Valerij Popov.- CHANDOS : 9717.
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