Sofia Gubaidulina: Johannes-Passion
 From Amazon.com: The pealing bells that open Sofia Gubaidulina's St. John Passion immediately announce not only its importance, but also its place firmly in the Russian musical tradition. The work is full of declamatory, hieratic solo passages and rich [... more]
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Sofia Gubaidulina: Concordanza; Meditation; Seven Works
Not music you'd listen to in the car.: This is probably one of my most favorite out of the limited collection of my CDs. I enjoy listening to it because I find its dark properties to be not very disturbing. The music is wonderful on all sorts of levels, [... more]
CDN$22.99
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Canticle O/T Sun/Music For Flu
From Amazon.com: Born in 1931 in the Soviet Tartar Republic into a family part Muslim Tartar, part Polish-Russian, Sofia Gubaidulina feels that her musical language is rooted in this culturally and ethnically mixed background. She has experimented with [... more]
CDN$19.99
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Piano
Svetlana Ponomareva, piano: Publisher's Review: This CD features the music of Gubaidulina, Chopin, Mussorgsky and Schnittke, capturing most of the program Svetlana Ponomarëva played for her New York City Debut recital in Weill Recital Hall at [... more]
CDN$11.99
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La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopi
the last of late Nono: This disc is a reissue in DG's 20/201 Echo series, with recordings of Nono's last two finished works from December of 1990, first released in 1992. Nono died in May 1990, and "La lontananza" had been written for and with [... more]
CDN$14.99
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Offertorium/Hommage A T.S. Eli
From Amazon.com: This entry in DG's Echo 20/21 series of contemporary music reissues is outstanding for its musical quality, engineering, and remarkable performances. Offertorium is aptly subtitled "Violin Concerto" to reflect the role of the [... more]
CDN$20.99
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Night Prayers
Amazon.com essential recording: One of the five most acclaimed New Music chamber ensembles in the world, Kronos Quartet has recorded music from every period, from Machaut to Wagner to Hendrix to Dun. Their Night Prayers collection--which features mainly [... more]
CDN$19.99
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The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Classical Music
The first great book on music of the millenium: I have never read a book like this one before. So well written and illustrated. It is forwarded by Vladimir Ashkenazy. The book starts with a section about music in non-western civilizations, there it [... more]
CDN$69.95
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Sym In 12 Mvts/Stufen
From Amazon.co.uk: Like Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina (born in 1931) has a strong current of mysticism in her work; her compositions seem to hint at "higher" levels of perception or cognition. Stimmen ... Verstummen (1986) is a symphony [... more]
CDN$21.99
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