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Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina is a Soviet and Russian composer who has been living in Germany since 1991.
Author of more than a hundred symphonic works, compositions for soloists, choir and orchestra, instrumental ensembles, music for theater, cinema and cartoons.
Sofia Gubaidulina was born in Chistopol in the Tatar Republic of the Soviet Union in October 24, 1931.
After instruction in piano and composition at the Kazan Conservatory, she studied composition with Николай Пейко at the Moscow Conservatory, pursuing graduate studies there under Виссарион Шебалин. Until 1992, she lived in Moscow. Since then, she has made her primary residence in Germany, outside Hamburg. Gubaidulina's compositional interests have been stimulated by the tactile exploration and improvisation with rare Russian, Caucasian, and Asian folk and ritual instruments collected by the "Astreia" ensemble, of which she was a co-founder, by the rapid absorption and personalization of contemporary Western musical techniques (a characteristic, too, of other Soviet composers of the post-Stalin generation including Edison Denisov and Alfred Schnittke), and by a deep-rooted belief in the mystical properties of music. Her uncompromising dedication to a singular vision did not endear her to the Soviet musical establishment, but her music was championed in Russia by a number of devoted performers including Vladimir Tonkha, Friedrich Lips, Mark Pekarsky, and Valeri Popov. The determined advocacy of Gidon Kremer, dedicatee of Gubaidulina's masterly violin concerto, Offertorium , helped bring the composer to international attention in the early 1980s. Gubaidulina is the author of symphonic and choral works, two cello concerti, a viola concerto, four string quartets, a string trio, works for percussion ensemble, and many works for nonstandard instruments and distinctive combinations of instruments. Her scores frequently explore unconventional techniques of sound production.
In 2011, with the personal patronage and participation of Sofia Gubaidulina in Kazan, the annual festival of contemporary music named after her "Concordia" was founded by the State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan / Государственный Симфонический Оркестр Республики Татарстан, in which famous Russian and foreign composers and performers perform. The artistic director of the festival is Honored Artist of Russia Alexander Sladkovsky / Александр Сладковский.
2024
Orfeo (2)
CD, Album
2023
Aeolus
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album
2022
Sarton Records
9xFile, FLAC, Album, 320
2022
Hänssler Classic
4xCD
2022
2022
2021
BIS
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel
2021
DUX Recording Producers
CD, Album
2021
2021
2020
Metier
CD, Album
2019
Etcetera (3)
CD, Album
2019
Neos
CD, Album
2018
Мелодия
CD
2017
Challenge Classics
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album
2017
Champs Hill Records
CD, Album
2016
GENUIN
CD, Album
2016
BIS
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel
2015
Atma Classique
2xCD, Album
2015
Naxos
CD, Album
2015
Ensemble Modern Medien
CD
2015
Sony Classical, Diapason
3xCD, Comp, RE, Dig
2015
Nimbus Alliance
CD, Album
2014
ECM New Series, ECM New Series, ECM New Series
CD, Album
2014
BIS
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel
2014
BIS
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album
2013
Channel Classics
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album
2013
WERGO
CD
2013
Solo Musica (2)
CD, Album
2013
Vista Vera
CD, Comp
2013
TYXart
CD, Album, Comp
2013
SWR Music, Hänssler Classic
CD, Album
2012
Odradek Records
CD, Album
2012
Supraphon
CD, Album
2012
Мелодия
CD, Album
2012
Dreyer Gaido
CD, Album
2012
2011
BIS
CD, Album
2011
Neos
3xCD, Album
2011
Commmons
CD, Album, Dig
2011
Etcetera (3)
CD
2011
Arthaus Musik
DVD-V, Copy Prot., NTSC
2011
2010
Отделение ВЫХОД, Отделение ВЫХОД
2xCD, Album
2010
Thorofon
CD, Album
2010
2009
MDG
CD, Album
2009
Accord
CD, Album, ope
2009
2008
Transart, Transart Live
CD, Album
2008
BIS
CD, Album
2008
2007
Lux Musicae Siuntio
CD, Album
2007
Hänssler Classic
2xCD, Album, O-C
2007
Ardito
CDr
2006
Camenae
CD
2006
WERGO
CD, Album
2006
BIS
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel, Album
2006
Fuga Libera
CD
2005
Capriccio (2), Deutschlandradio Kultur
CD
2005
Decca, Decca
CD, Album
2004
Channel Classics
SACD, Hybrid, Album
2004
Live Classics
CD, Album
2003
Dreyer Gaido
CD, Album
2003
Chandos
CD
2002
BIS
CD, Album
2002
Black Box
CD, Album
2002
Castigo
CD, Album
2002
2002
2001
Alpha Productions
CD, Album
2001
Hänssler Classic
2xCD, Album
2001
Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)
CD, Album
2001
Nimbus Records
CD, Album, Amb, UHJ
2001
New York Philharmonic Special Editions
CD, Album
2001
Chandos
CD, Album, Pre
2001
2000
col legno
CD, Comp
2000
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
CD
2000
Antes Edition
CD
2000
1999
Chandos
CD, Album
1999
Explicit Records (8)
CD
1999
Kontrapunkt
CD, Album
1998
Fabbri Classica, Naxos
CD, Comp, RE
1998
Koch Schwann Musica Mundi
CD, Comp
1998
1997
Мелодия, BMG Classics
CD, Comp, RM
1997
Fonit Cetra
CD, Album
1997
BIS, BIS
CD, Album
1997
Warner Fonit
CD, RM
1996
WERGO, WERGO
CD
1996
BIS, BIS
CD, Album
1996
BIS
CD
1996
Kontrapunkt
CD, Album
1996
1995
Naxos
CD, Album
1995
Koch Schwann, AULOS (2)
CD, Album
1995
Philips
CD, Album
1995
BIS
CD, Album
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