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NEOS 11805-07CD
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On the tenth anniversary of Horațiu Rădulescu's death on September 25th 2018, NEOS present a comprehensive document of a wonderful artistic friendship will be released: the complete recording of Rădulescu's piano music, featuring the pianist Ortwin Stürmer. Horațiu Rădulescu, born in Bucharest on January 7th, lived in French exile from 1969 and became one of the leading exponents of spectralism; nonetheless, his music also has unmistakable roots in his home country of Romania. He was considered a sonic magician, a "philosopher of sound". One of his decisive encounters, in 1990, was with Ortwin Stürmer; it was for him that Rădulescu composed the second, third, and fourth of the Zen-inspired Lao tzu Sonatas, as well as the large-scale piano concerto "The Quest". It would have been wrong not to include the latter in this SACD box set -- with the same musicians as the premiere, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Lother Zagrosek.
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RZ 1007LP
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1990 release. Two 22+ minute works by this Romanian composer. ("Clepsydra" for 16 sound icons [a grand piano laying vertically on its side, with the strings played by bowing]) & ("Astray" for 6 saxophones and sound icon). "Clepsydra" is a massive, rumbling work of outstanding darkness, and needs to be heard.
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RZ 4002CD
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2001 release. Among contemporary composers, Horatiu Radulescu is one who has something essential to express about the enigma of time: multi-layered lines of events, their structuring, perception and potential for poetic-religious message are -- together with the development of spectral composition -- among his central artistic concerns. "String quartet op. 33" fully demonstrates Radulescu's formal invention and his powerful expressiveness. During the 49 minutes of the work, two macro-forms -- two time-worlds overlap and intersect: that of the central string quartet and that of the eight surrounding quartets. In these surrounding eight quartets, the composer deliberately creates a lively, seemingly unordered series of moments of meditative quietness, of sudden improvised actions and of collective eruptions of primal force. Performed by the Arditti String Quartet.
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