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Stamic Quartet - Sofia Gubaidulina: Complete String Quartets (2012)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 13 Mar 2025 18:18:05

Sofia Gubaidulina, one of the most distinct composers of the present time, says of herself that she is “a daughter of two worlds, whose soul lives in the music of both the West and East”. From her father’s side, her life was entered by the world of Islamic culture, while her mother introduced her to Christianity, in which she found her identity in the Orthodox faith. Her quest for a singular style was strongly influenced by the legacies of J. S. Bach and Anton Webern, as well as Dmitri Shostakovich, who encouraged her to remain herself and “continue down the mistaken path” for which she was criticised by the guardians of aesthetic correctness in the Soviet Union.

Gubaidulina’s personal story is one of a struggle to live in truth, conducted with calm, patience, perseverance and inner conviction. The five string quartets represent a singular journey towards a vision of freedom beyond the borders of any system: she extracts the material from beyond major-minor tonality, using micro-intervals, serial techniques, aleatory elements, unusual playing methods, thus revealing previously unthought-of acoustic possibilities of instruments, including the space itself, the movement of musicians, etc. The Stamic Quartet, an ensemble representing the famous Czech quartet school, is an attentive interpreter of the first complete recording.

The Czech Republic's Stamic Quartet takes its name from the Bohemian composer whose name is more often spelled Stamitz, and the group has specialized in Czech Classical and Romantic repertory. You might not pick out their background as likely to produce strong recordings of Sofia Gubaidulina's string quartets, but try these out: they're extraordinary. Gubaidulina's quartets are all in single movements. The String Quartet No. 4, composed in 1993, uses electronic elements to shift prerecorded music by a quarter tone, but even the earlier quartets, although entirely acoustic, seemed to suggest electronic textures. Gubaidulina revels in small motives that develop through small shifts in texture or tonal content. Her music is at once very rigorously structured and quite sensuous on its surface. It is, moreover, very challenging for the players, who have to master extended techniques like striking the strings with rubber balls while maintaining high degrees of tension and tonal precision. The Stamic Quartet succeeds on all counts, with astonishing results in the passages where Gubaidulina pushes the string quartet into unusual textures. Hear, for example, the uncanny "beats" as the strings rise to the top of their ranges in the Reflections on the theme B-A-C-H (2002), which shares techniques with the four numbered quartets. In the end, there's something almost mystical in the discipline of Gubaidulina's music, and the Stamic Quartet nails it. Highly recommended.

Review by James Manheim, Allmusic.com

Sofia Gubaidulina at Allmusic
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Stamic Quartet at Allmusic
Stamic Quartet Website
Stamic Quartet at Wiki

Stamic Quartet
Jindřich Pazdera, violin
Josef Kekula, violin
Jan Pěruška, viola
Petr Hejný, cello

Recorded for Czech Radio at Martinek Studio, Prague in June and August 2011.

Tracklist:

01. String Quartet No. 1 (21:40)
02. String Quartet No. 2 (8:11)
03. String Quartet No. 3 (18:01)
04. String Quartet No. 4 with tape (12:23)
05. Reflections on the Theme B-A-C-H (7:19)

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