Gubaidulina, Sofia. (b.1931)

"In Tempus Praesens" - Autograph Musical Quotation

Autograph musical quotation from the leading contemporary Russian composer, who has penned 13 measures of the solo part from her Violin Concerto no. 2, "In Tempus Praesens." She has inscribed at the head in German and signed at the foot in both Cyrillic and Roman alphabets. Ink slightly bleeding through to verso; overall fine. 8.25 x 5.5 inches (21 x 14 cm).

Gubaidulina's second violin concerto was written for Anne-Sophie Mutter and premiered in August 2007 at the Lucerne Festival, with Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic. Reviewing Mutter's recording, Arnold Whittall writes in Gramophone: "Gubaidulina has her own very personal musical identity, and the concerto’s strategies for playing off heights against depths, lament against affirmation, are very powerfully realised. The risks of rambling, improvisatory musing are triumphantly avoided, and the work’s final stages appear to bring starkly opposed images of extinction and rebirth into a strongly ambivalent conclusion that both affirms and questions resolution." (15612)

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