Gubaidulina: '...The Deceitful Face of Hope and Despair' / Sieben Worte

Featuring

Mario Venzago
Sharon Bezaly
Torleif Thedéen
Mie Miki
Göteborgs Symfoniker
Sofia Gubaidulina

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Composer Biography

Sofia Gubaidulina, the composer, studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory with Nikolai Peiko, an assistant to Dmitri Shostakovich.

Performer Biography

Mie Miki, the bayan player, began studying the accordion at age four and made her first radio broadcast for NHK in Tokyo at age eight.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Dmitri Shostakovich and Anton Webern had the greatest influence on Sofia Gubaidulina's work, teaching her the most important lesson: to be herself.

Composer Biography

In 1975, Sofia Gubaidulina co-founded the group "Astraea" with composers Vyacheslav Artyomov and Viktor Suslin, improvising on rare folk and ritual instruments.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Sofia Gubaidulina believes that the ideal relationship to tradition and new compositional means is when an artist masters both, but without favoring either.

Performer Biography

Sharon Bezaly, the flutist, was named 'Instrumentalist of the Year' by Klassik Echo in Germany in 2002 and received the Cannes Classical Award as 'Young Artist of the Year' in 2003.

Composer's Artistic Vision

A characteristic of Sofia Gubaidulina's work is the almost complete absence of absolute music, with nearly all her pieces having an extra-musical dimension.