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Sofia Gubaidulina

Gubaidulina: Garten von Freuden and Traurigkeiten

Garden of Joy and Sorrow

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Sikorski  |  SKU: SIK845  |  Barcode: 9790003015354
  • Composer: Sofia Gubaidulina (1931-)
  • Format: Set of Performance Scores
  • Instrumentation: Flute, Viola, Harp, Narrator
  • Work: Garten von Freuden and Traurigkeiten (Garden of Joy and Sorrow) (1980)
  • ISMN: 9790003015354

Description

Contains three performance scores.

This one-movement piece, written in 1980, is characterised by an exquisite, extremely subtle sound colouring that is reminiscent of the music of the Orient, if only because the instruments have to play predominantly in high registers. There are also echoes of oriental music in the fluctuating glissando sounds (for example at the beginning of the piece, when a long glissando is to be played on the harp with the clef), as well as in the melismatic melody, which is linked to various types of trills, and finally in the title of the work. in the flexible confrontation of tempered tuning as an artificially created order and the overtone series as the ‘natural state' of music, the trio with its sound symbolism also has a philosophical background against which the relationship between subject and object is thematised. At the same time, the composition is indebted to two contrasting literary influences: the book ‘Sayat-Nova' by Iv Oganov about a famous oriental narrator and singer, and the poems of Francisco Tanzer.