Sofia Gubaidulina – Repentance

Composers	Gubaidulina, Sofia
Genres	Chamber Music Instrumental
Performers	Brar, Lucas Halász, Débora Halász, Franz Kellermann, Jacob Schlichtig, Hariolf Stubenrauch, Philipp Yang, Wen-Sinn [Read more]
Instruments	Cello Double bass Guitar Piano Viola
Periods	Contemporary Modern
Label	BIS
Catalogue number	BIS-2056 SACD
Release date	2014-08-01
Discs	1
Orig. sample rate	48000Hz
Total time	70:07

“The performers here expose Gubaidulina’s music for what it is. It’s neither pastiche nor approximation. The result is a sense of great respect on the listener's … Read morepart. … this is a haunting CD that will satisfy as much as it will enthral.” MusicWeb-International.com

Within the output of Sofia Gubaidulina, solo and chamber music occupies a position of prominence; she has written more than eighty such works. One of the earliest is the brief – and not really typical – Serenade for solo guitar from 1960, composed as a commission from a Moscow publishing house for inclusion in a collection of guitar compositions. The composer was asked to write a piece not overly difficult or progressive, and has later described the result as ‘music for pleasure’. Demonstrating a particular closeness to the guitar, Gubaidulina’s later writing for it has exploited its sound spectrum in previously unimagined ways. Two further works involving the guitar are included here, with Repentance from 2008 being a reworking of an earlier work, just as its title is a translation of the original’s Italian one, Ravvedimento. Her latest work involving the guitar, and also the latest on this disc (and a world première recording) is Sotto voce for viola, double bass and two guitars. About this unusual combination, Gubaidulina has remarked: ‘It fascinated me on account of its dark colour and its potential for contrast between a muted, almost whispered sotto voce sound and that particular sort of expressivity that low-pitched instruments possess’. Each with a duration of more than 20 minutes, these two works frame the equally substantial but much earlier Piano Sonata. Looking back at her youth, the composer has described the piano in her family home as ‘the only light’ in ‘a fairly grey and uninteresting existence’. Striking features of the sonata include borrowings from jazz and the twelve-tone row which underpins all its three movements – a nod towards the dodecaphony through which Gubaidulina asserted her place in the Russian musical avant-garde at an early stage. This varied and fascinating journey into the world of Sofia Gubaidulina’s chamber music is given us by a Munich-based group of eminent musicians. Hide

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Composer: Gubaidulina, Sofia
01	Repentance (2008) for cello, three guitars and double bass	21:50	$ 4.59	USD

02	Serenade (1960) for solo guitar	02:32	$ 0.53	USD

Piano Sonata (1965)		21:09
03	I. Allegro	11:15	$ 2.36	USD
04	II. Adagio	07:02	$ 1.48	USD
05	III. Allegretto	02:52	$ 0.60	USD

06	Sotto voce (2010/13) for viola, double bass and two guitars	23:13	$ 4.88	USD

Album total		70:07

Composer	Gubaidulina, Sofia
Cello	Yang, Wen-Sinn
Guitar	Brar, Lucas Halász, Franz Kellermann, Jacob
Double bass	Stubenrauch, Philipp
Piano	Halász, Débora
Viola	Schlichtig, Hariolf

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