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Russian composer and professor of composition
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Faces of classical music
2018-07-27 14:51:00
Sofia Gubaidulina – All the posts
Sofia Gubaidulina was born in Chistopol in the Tatar Republic of the Soviet Union in 1931. After instruction in piano and composition at the Kazan Conservatory, she studied composition with Nikolai Peiko at the Moscow Conservatory, pursuing graduate studies there under Vissarion Shebalin. Until 1992, she lived in Moscow. Since then, she has made her primary residence in Germany, outside Hamburg.Gubaidulina's compositional interests have been stimulated by the tactile exploration and improvisation with rare Russian, Caucasian, and Asian folk and ritual instruments collected by the "Astreia" ensemble, of which she was a co-founder, by the rapid absorption and personalization of contemporary Western musical techniques (a characteristic, too, of other Soviet composers of the post-Stalin generation including Edison Denisov and Alfred Schnittke), and by a deep-rooted belief in the mystical properties of music.Her uncompromising dedication to a singular vision did not endear her to the Soviet musical establishment, but her music […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-07-25 11:04:00
Sofia Gubaidulina: Offertorium – Vadim Repin, State Academic Symphony Orchestra "Evgeny Svetlanov", Vladimir Jurowski
Violinist Vadim Repin performs Sofia Gubaidulina's Offertorium concerto for violin and orchestra, with the State Academic Symphony Orchestra "Evgeny Svetlanov" under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski. The concert took place at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow on May 30, 2016.✻Until the early 1980s, Gubaydulina's works were little known in the USSR because of the authorities' disapproval of her compositional style, and her music was also virtually unknown in the west. Performances of this violin concerto changed those circumstances in Europe and later in the United States, as Gidon Kremer, the Latvian violinist for whom it was written and then dedicated, took the work to European centers. Its popularity established Gubaydulina's reputation. Like many of the composer's works, the piece uses musical structures to symbolize and express spiritual ideas, while simultaneously suggesting those concerns to the listener through the use of a musical language of brilliant instrumental colors and meditative […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-07-23 11:35:00
Sofia Gubaidulina: Sonata for double bass and piano – Daniele Roccato, Fabrizio Ottaviucci (HD 1080p)
The distinguished Italian musicians Daniele Roccato (double bass) and Fabrizio Ottaviucci (piano) perform Sofia Gubaidulina's Sonata for double bass and piano. The concert was recorded at Minoritenkirche in Krems, Austria, on April 6, 2012.✻The double bass is in the focus of the four compositions by Sofia Gubaidulina: Sonata for double bass and piano (1975), Pantomime for double bass and piano (1966), In Croce for double bass and bayan (2009), and Preludes for solo double bass (2009). The compositions which were written and reviewed over a time span of over forty years "are among the highlights in double bass literature: four gems of outstanding value every double bass player should learn to perform" (Daniele Roccato).In Sonata for double bass and piano, the double bass part is largely written in a traditional way. However, the performer can opt for various choices of fingering, positions and resonating chords according to personal preferences. Moreover, […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-07-18 10:56:00
Sofia Gubaidulina: Et Exspecto – José Valente (HD 1080p)
The Portuguese accordionist José Valente plays Sofia Gubaidulina's Et exspecto. The recital took place at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Concert Hall, in Copenhagen on April 25, 2018.✻Born in 1931, Gubaidulina stubbornly continued composing in her own way, often expressing Christian ideas, against the often active pressure of the Soviet Communist Party. Since the 1980s she has emerged as one of the leading composers in Russia. Work in the 1970s with an ensemble of traditional instruments (for which the composers associated with it wrote non-traditional classical music), interested her in the bayan, a Russian folk accordion, and from that grew her interest in the accordion. Of all the leading composers in the world she has probably written more great new music for that often maligned instrument, often working with the great player Friedrich Lips, who has reformed the playing technique of the accordion.The title "Et expecto" implies the Latin version of […]
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