Browse: SACD, Gubaidulina (composer)

Hammond casts her net with a flairfulness and acuity ‘rich in contrast’ (to purloin Sofia Gubaidulina’s description of her 1963 Chaconne which, under Hammond’s exhilaratingly determined fingers,... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) More…

Brett Dean’s Voices of Angels is a very substantial work, making his customary detailed sonic investigations into the ensemble’s possible combinations of instruments, and doing so with a tremendous... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2020 More…

Lamsma is a terrific player, with a beautiful, resilient sound, but at times that beauty is her handicap: she doesn’t do ugly or grim. — The Guardian, 11th May 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

a player of jaw-dropping agility and effortlessly suave tone...Núñez's performance [of the Gubaidulina], and that of the Concertgebouw cellos and basses, is impressively vivid. — The Guardian, 23rd May 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

'Every interval,' Gubaidulina explains, 'creates a summation tone and a difference tone: an interval in the lowest register creates a difference tone which we recognise not as a tone but a pulsation.'... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Starting with an ever-circling plainchant-like idea, all the voices of the excellent NDR Chor soon pool into a sonorous cloud out of which solo voices spin, punctuated with baleful comments from... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

None of the music on this disc makes for easy listening, but there is much more to each work than you might think on first hearing, and each repays close attention…Nurit Stark's violin and viola... — International Record Review, March 2015 More…