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Sofia Gubaidulina: String Quartets Nos. 1-3/Trio

Danish Qt , Sofia Gubaidulina Audio CD
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  • Composer: Sofia Gubaidulina
  • Audio CD (27 Jun 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Cpo
  • ASIN: B000001RST
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 129,739 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Str Qt No.1
2. Str Qt No.2
3. Str Qt No.3
4. Trio: I.
5. Trio: II.
6. Trio: III

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good string playing, 28 July 2007
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Ivar de Vries (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sofia Gubaidulina: String Quartets Nos. 1-3/Trio (Audio CD)
This release is a relative oddity among the many others featuring her music as it simply consists of pure music without any obvious spiritual associations. Nevertheless it all sounds like vintage Gubaidulina, a whole disc devoted to abstract string quartet music may sound a bit one-sided, but there's so much expression and life on offer here that it can make for wholly satisfying listening experience.
The first and longest quartet was written way before the others and has one of those wacky avant-garde ideas where the performers initially sitting together are supposed to gradually move away from each other so at the end they're not playing in the same meter anymore. It has a rather austere atmosphere with lots of pizzicato playing and angular phrases played in unison. The next two quartets were both written in 1987. The second's basic idea is that one or two players hold a note which moves from the initial G to some two octaves higher around which the other players navigate. The third starts off with a lengthy intricate pizzicato section before the bows are taken up to bring matters to an inspired end. The equally inspired Trio has sort of the same idea as the first quartet of initial cooperation between the three voices followed by conflicting impulses.
To me a great disc played expertly by the Danish Quartet. Gubaidulina has since written a fourth quartet which is a bit lost among pieces by other composers on a Kronos Quartet compilation.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A solid performance of three difficult works, 18 July 2005
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This CPO disc contains four pieces by Sofia Gubaidulina, a Russian-Tartar composer of singularly original and individualistic music. These are her three string quartets written up to 1993, and her "String Trio". Performances are given by The Danish Quartet, the ensemble of Tim Frederiksen (violin I), Arne Balk-Moeller (violin II), Claus Myrup (viola), and Henrik Brendstrup (cello).

Sofia Gubaidulina's works for string quartet and string trio have always seemed to me to lie at the outskirts of her oeuvre, even though they contain the elements common to all her work that we have come to love. This is perhaps because of their intensity, a single-minded dedication to certain mystical principles without the variety of longer or larger works. The result is music that one doesn't come back to as often as her colourful masterpiece JOHANNES-PASSION or her CANTICLE TO THE SUN, but nonetheless of great power and profundity.

Gubaidulina's "String Quartet No 1" was written in 1971, what many would consider prior to her maturity as a composer. In a work primarily about isolation, the score contains prescribed pauses during which the musicians, who had begun the work sitting together in the centre of the stage, slowly move towards the four corners of the stage. The result is that each instrumentalist plays the last six pages of the score as if a solo musician. Unfortunately, a stereo cannot fully communicate this concept, and we miss out, just as a home listener cannot see the light show accompanying some other Gubaidulina pieces.

The "String Quartet No 2" was commissioned in 1987 by the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival for the Sibelius Quartet. Sixteen years had passed since her first quartet and in that time her compositional technique had changed entirely. During the 1970s her work began to be deeply inspired by her Eastern Orthodox faith, and in the 1980s this religious inspiration was accompanied by a profound interest in "zahlenmystik", or the use of mystical mathematical formula such as the Fibonacci Sequence and Golden Ratio. This piece is related to her symphony "Stimmen ...Verstummen" of the previous year in its exhibition of musical forms which seem to be ultimately derived out of and subsequently returning into a divine silence, but whereas the symphony is centred around a D-major triad, the quartet takes as its basis a sustained G on which variations subsequently arise.

In contrast to the great gap between the first and second quartets, The "String Quartet No 3" followed closely after the previous. It finds inspiration in lines from T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", and is a single movement work divided evenly into an opening section of plucking techniques and a latter half where the bow is introduced and the sound is drastically transformed even though the same ideas are explored. I find this the least successful of Gubaidulina's quartets, but I admit I may be misunderstanding it entirely.

The "String Trio" for violin, viola, and cello (1988) was written right after the third string quartet and is tremendously exciting. The first movement begins with scratchy austerity and eventually breaks into every interplay of the strings that one can imagine. The second movement has a clockwork rhythm reminiscent of Ligeti's second string quartet, while the third, final movement summarises what came before and breaks it down into a meditative lull. I used to be critical of the Danish Quartet's performance, but better appreciate it now. The is also a performance by Yevgeniya Alikhanova, Tatyana Kokhanovskaya, and Olga Organovich on Collego.

The performances here must be accompanied by those of the Arditti Quartet ("Arditti Quartet Edition 9" on the French label Montaigne). The Arditti Quartet disc has a less astringent sound, but the recording of the Danish Quartet seems to better explore the space. It is a great regret that this disc was prepared too early to include her fourth string quartet, which was written later in 1993 for the Kronos Quartet and makes fascinating use of tape and flashing lights.
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