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Sofia Gubaidulina A little later MSQ started their work with another outstanding contemporary composer, Sophia Gubaidulina. It was the MSQ who premiered her Trio for Strings in 1988 in the Salle Gaveau in Paris. At the same time the Moscow String Quartet added Gubaidulina’s First, Second and Third Quartets to their repertoire and recited them successfully both in Russia and abroad. For example, there is a recording of their performance of Gubaidulina’s Third Quartet at the Richter “December Nights” Festival (Melodia) and part of the Trio for Strings was included in a BBC film about Russian composers. Gubaidulina invited the ensemble to perform at her jubilee recitals in Germany in 1992, and in London and New York in 2002. In honor of her 60th birthday in 1992, the MSQ played her Quartet and Trio in various cities in Germany. When her 70th was celebrated in London in 2002, the MSQ played four Quartets and the String Trio in Royal Festival Hall. The Quartet also appeared in the BBC documentary “The Fire and the Rose”. Gubaidulina also visited New York City that same year, and the Quartet played at her two jubilee recitals there. Gubaidulina still speaks warmly of the Quartet and of their work together: "...Their work is perfection, but at the same time displays such a full, deep seriousness in the art. Such tone, such phrasing, all played with the highest virtuosity and reverence to the music!"
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