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Composer of the Week Sofia Gubaidulina (b 1931)
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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’s 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...
[fig.66]
[fig.87]
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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Fri 5 Nov 2021 12:00
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Music Played

  • Sofia Gubaidulina

    Glorious Percussion (excerpt)

    Conductor: Jonathan Nott.
    • BIS CD 1752.
    • BIS.
    • 1.

  • Sofia Gubaidulina

    Hour of the Soul

    Performer: Mark Ilyich Pekarsky. Singer: Lina Mkrtchyan. Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Timur Mynbaev.

  • Sofia Gubaidulina

    The Canticle of the Sun (excerpt)

    Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich. Choir: London Voices. Conductor: RyΕ«suke Numajiri.
    • DG 00028947778622.
    • DG.
    • 4.

  • Sofia Gubaidulina

    In Tempus Praesens

    Performer: Anne‐Sophie Mutter. Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
    • DG 00028947778622.
    • DG.
    • 1.

  • Sofia Gubaidulina

    Quasi Hoquetus

    Performer: Alexander Bakhchiev. Performer: Natalia Gigashvili. Performer: Valerij Popov.
    • CHANDOS : 9717.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 2.

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  • Fri 5 Nov 2021 12:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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