Sofia Gubaidulina Silenzio For Bayan, Violin & Cello

Sofia Gubaidulina
Silenzio for bayan*, violin & cello
I 00:00
II 04:10
III 06:43
IV 09:32
V 10:50

Elsbeth Moser, bayan
Kathryn Rabus, violin
Maria Kliegel, cello

Painting; Angeles Santos Torroella, Tertulia, 1929 Madrid Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

*The bayan is a type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia in the early 20th century and named after the 11th-century bard Boyan.

Silenzio, a set of five pieces for bayan, violin and cello, is dedicated to Elsbeth Moser, whose personality served as inspiration for the work. She gave the first performance in Hanover in 1991 with the violinist Kathrin Rabus and cellist Christoph Marks. The greater part of the work, the composer explains, is to be played pianissimo. She did not have the intention of expressing silence or creating such an impression. Silence is for her the foundation from which something grows. Exact rhythmic proportions are made which appear in all five miniatures in different ways, at times hidden, at times in the form of proportions of note length. In the last miniature the hidden and the open are brought together in a synthesis: in the course of the whole movement we hear significantly formulated rhythmic sequences in the bayan part (quasi variations on a rhythm). It is the same rhythm that can also be heard in the relationship to each other of the formal sections, 7 – 2 – 5.
From Music Notes by Keith Anderson

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