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…

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…

'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…

Gubaidulina shows how viable the post-Shostakovich explosion of Russian compositional activity has remained...this release is a must for its substantial additions to the still-expanding Gubaidulina... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014 More…