Romanian music

[malito]

Jacky,

I used to correspond with Liana Alexandra often via e-mail.  Actually, I sent her a package of things I had gotten her in Mexico (my second home) for her birthday about 5 years ago.  There was a time that she and her husband were going to come and visit us in Arizona.  Her music is excellent, too, and she sent me CDs of her 4th, 6th and 7th symphonies as well as a children's opera.  I love her music a lot and I like Nichifor's 1st and 2nd symphony.  But, as I told you already I am a big fan of everything Romanian.  Mal

[semloh]

I was just listening to Dinu LIPATTI's Satrarii – symphonic suite - available courtesy of Atsushi. Like other pieces by Lipatti, it is enjoyable but strange - quirky themes, odd changes of pace and an unsettling mix of styles! Listening to a Lipatti composition is always an adventure.
Thanks, Atsushi 

[Dundonnell]

May anyone upload again Alexandru Velehorschi/Popa concertos? It doesn't work

The advantage of downloading almost everything is that there are backup files

I am happy to oblige. The links will be posted in the Rumanian Music Downloads folder

[emi122]

A portrait of Serban Nichifor

link set to private.

[semloh]

Colin, do you by any chance have dates for the compositions by Alexandru Velehorschi which you kindly uploaded? The only information I have is that he was born in 1918. 

[Holger]

What I know is that Velehorschi died in 1997 and that the Piano Concerto was composed somewhere between in 1950 and 1960.

[Jacky]

I couldn't find any information about the two composers even in the Romanian pages.
The 3 recordings have an historical importance more then a musical one:pianist Maria Fotino was a great but unknown pianist -a portrait was issued on Pearl Pearl GEM 0223.The conductor Rogalski was one of Romania's foremost composers and conductors.
Aurelian Octav Popa and Iancu Vaduva were first clarinet and repectively trumpet in the Enescu Philarmonic in Bucharest.I will post soon clarinet concertos by Vieru and Stroe written for Aurelian Octav Popa.

[emi122]

Serban Nichifor's music can't be downloaded, can jacky open it again,thanks!

[Jacky]

There is  a second link .The first one I set to private as contained a work which is purchasable on CD.

[Jacky]

Thanks very much to Jacky for the large collection of music by Serban Nichifor

Could I add too that it is extremely helpful to have your written Insights into the composer's music This helps a huge amount with music with which people will be totally unfamiliar. Thank you for these too

Thank you so much.I try to make this totally unknown music more familiar, pointing to those issues which are, imo, the most important to be stressed.
Before this weekend share I will also marginally relate to a recent thread here-which concerns us all.I think that basically an unsung composer is a dead one. .The posterity, is generally speaking, that which decides whether a composer is recorded or played.The limitations,might be the composers dead before 1800 on one hand, and the too avantgarde composers on the other.Each one has to be the object for special blogs-early music,experimental music a.s.o.
Today I will try to shed a light on the work of Aurel Stroe (1932-2008).Well, he is unsung, is dead, but his music found already a clear place i.e it is no longer considered experimental,alternative or avanguard.
Stroe's music has an austere, enigmatic, challenging and essential strange beauty. It has moments it sounds like Xenakis in its uncompromising dissonant chords, in its strange sounds or unorthodox use of instruments.I know this sounds forbidding but give a try.Although deeply rooted in science-the catastrophe theory by Rene Thom, thermodynamics -the second principle and the Prigogine theories, or philosophy -ontology of Parmenides or Heidegger -Stroe's music fascinates and moves.I strongly advise you to read the long insights I prepared for you.I hope it will help you to grasp a music which doesn't reveal itself from the first or even second try.
All the recordings come from Radio Romania.Afaik never published,comercialised on any format.

[Greg K]

  Oh! I forgot to upload Toduta!
  I have recording of symphony no.1.
  I will upload it in few days.

No one here has especially commended this Symphony by Sigismund Toduda, so listening again just now I would like to say what excellent music, - with an epic quality both brooding and heroic I find very affecting.  Definitely a work of merit and more than passing interest, however conservative, - and fit for my "discovery pile".  Anyone having overlooked it might want to go back.  Another winner, Atsushi.

[lechner1110]

  Hi Greg K, Sorry for late reply!

  I agree you. Toduta's Sym#1 is excellent music.  I recorded it last year, it was great found to me.
  I want to listen more musics by him

[Greg K]

I too would like to hear more by Toduta.  At least Symphony No.5 was issued on LP.  Perhaps someone here could make that available.

[Jacky]

I am planning to post this weekend his divertimento for strings and 4 tabulatures for strings.

[Sicmu]

Eugene Goosens: Variations on a Theme by Goosens
Cincinnati SO/Eugene Goosens [premiere; 23 March 1945]
http://www.mediafire.com/?cl5fyfac9eymxli

A word of explanation. This comes from a request. I hesitated for a while, where to put it. I was given the welcome suggestion to stow it under "American" since that is from where most of the notes come. But I decided to ignore that advice because the theme and the impetus were British. Anyway, in order, the variations come from Paul Creston, Aaron Copland, Deems Taylor, Howard Hanson, William Schuman, Walter Piston, Roy Harris, Anis Fuleihan, Bernard Rogers and Ernest Bloch, an appropriate selection from then-current American composers whose works you would have heard in our concert halls in 1945. Only the Cyprus-born Fuleihan [1900-1970] has passed from view.

From a broadcast.

I'm confused : is it Gossens or Goossens ?