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Gubaidulina: The Canticle Of The Sun

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0028947646624
Item Dimensions: 5005632743
Label: ECM New Series
Languages: EnglishUnknown
Manufacturer: ECM New Series
Number Of Discs: 1
Publication Date: 2012
Publisher: ECM New Series
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Studio: ECM New Series

Features:

• Record Label: Ecm
• Country Of Release: EU
• Year Of Release: 2012
• Notes: W/Kremerata Baltica

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Two major works by Sofia Gubaidulina comprise this album: "The Lyre of Orpheus" (composed in 2006), for violin, percussion and string orchestra, and "The Canticle of the Sun" (1997, rev. 1998), for violoncello, chamber choir, percussion and celesta. Both pieces were recorded at the Lockenhaus Festival in, respectively, 2006 and 2010.

Gidon Kremer is the soloist and Kremerata Baltica the ensemble on the premiere recording of "The Lyre of Orpheus". Kremer has long been a committed advocate of Gubaidulina's work, and the composer has praised the way the violinist seems to unleash music from the soul, playing with "great inner plasticity". Gubaidulina's interpreters must penetrate the rarefied atmospheres of her works, and bring their own creativity into play, to "complete" the music, as she says. "What a richness in sounds and silence!" exclaims Kremer of "The Lyre of Orpheus". "What inventiveness in the approach to the invisible! Everyone should be obliged to find keys to enter the mystical kingdom created by Sofia Gubaidulina as a sensitive reflection of higher powers. The rewards follow imminently and stay forever." In this work of austere beauty and raw lyricism, violin, string orchestra and percussion intermingle in new ways.

At a subterranean level, "The Lyre of Orpheus" is also an exploration into the physics of sound, with pulsating difference tones informing its underlying structures. Gubaidulina explains: "One can conceive of an imaginary pulsating space where the pulsation of the difference tones corresponds to the sounding intervals. Projected onto the tonal area which we can perceive, a specific correlation is formed between this pulsation and the sounding interval which produces the difference tone. One can experience this correspondence in an artistic work as a metaphor for a profound correlation between processes taking place in time and processes within the sound world, but also as a pronounced factor of formal organization."

"The Lyre of Orpheus" was commissioned by the Basle Festival `Les Muséiques' and received its premiere on June 6, 2006, performed by Gidon Kremer, Andrei Pushkarev, Peter Sadlo and the Kremerata Baltica in Basle. The present recording followed a month later.

"Canticle of the Sun" revisits the celebrated piece that Gubaidulina wrote in tribute to Mstislav Rostropovich on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1997. Rostropovich's famously sunny disposition was an inspiration, by association prompting Gubaidulina to set St Francis of Assisi's "Canticle of the Sun" for choir. In this recording, Nicolas Altstaedt takes on the highly expressive lead role. Gubaidulina: "Nicolas possesses a brilliant technique, beautiful sound, outstanding feeling of form, excellent phrasing. His play was masterly. Without exaggeration one can say that we are dealing with a highly gifted musician, with a unique personality." A further, timely, Lockenhaus connection: as of this year, Nicolas Altstaedt takes over from Kremer as the new director of the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival.

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