Arditti String Quartet U.s.a. (1994)

Danish Quartet - Gubaidulina: String Quartets 1-3, String Trio (1994) (Repost)

Danish Quartet - Gubaidulina: String Quartets 1-3, String Trio (1994)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:10:01 | 306 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: CPO | Catalog: CPO999 064-2

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.