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    Dec 07, 2021 3 minutes
    —Jason Victor Serinus

    At 90 years of age, Sofia Gubaidulina has honed her musical language amidst conflict. Since 2003, the profoundly religious, visionary, and visceral Russian composer has written three huge, prescient works that depict in musical terms a standoff between God and humankind. All receive their world premiere “live” recordings in this sensational-sounding, system-demanding outpouring from Andris Nelsons and the venerable orchestra that Felix Mendelssohn once led, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.

    Gubaidulina, whom Nelsons—and its tour de force companion for huge orchestra, , received inspiration from her oratorio, . According to the liner notes written by Tobias Niederschlag, the oratorio “constitutes Sofia Gubaidulina’s appeal to humankind to follow God’s commandments and to overcome hatred through the conciliatory power of love.”

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