Horatiu Radulescu: S/D

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well i just just listened to his piano sonatas and piano concerto, and though neither has much in common with the spectralism i expected, i am greatly intrigued. the mystical single-mindedness recalls scelsi and ultvoskaya, but - at first glance - these pieces please me far more (perhaps a bias toward my fellow countrymen...)

so, any suggestions?

― you will be shot (you will be shot), Friday, 31 December 2004 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

all I've heard is the fourth string quartet, "for 9 string quartets or a string quartet surrounded by an imaginary 128 string-"viola de gamba". definitely spectralist.

performed by Arditti with overdubs, all open strings sounding overtones. they rarely sound all at once, and the live quartet is always in the foreground tracing clear lines out of the series. there are moments where things get huge & hazy, but they never sprawl or succumb to simple drone, they follow the logic of the traditional string quartet.

it's good, closer to Scelsi in feel than Branca or Dumitrescu. I love a good drone though, partial to Branca's Third and Dumitrescu's 'Medium' pieces for Fernando Grillo's contrabass. would love to see any Radulescu in concert.

― (Jon L), Friday, 31 December 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm actually I'd forgotten how crazy the ending of the fourth quartet is. keeping this out for a while.

― (Jon L), Friday, 31 December 2004 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

just about what i'm looking for. i'll keep in mind, thanks.

― you will be shot (you will be shot), Friday, 31 December 2004 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

string quartet no4 is all i have and I remember liking it but it wz so long ago now.

'ultvoskaya'

any recommendations cause I haven't heard a thing.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 31 December 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

grab all the oleg malov performances you can find. he plays the piano sonatas and conducts the symphonies, to boot.

those 2 cd's, in addition to the duet & grand duet are the only works of hers i've heard. very very basically, her music is a more primitive, atonal varation on late shostakovich. it's insistently bleak and hopelessly ugly, but if you're in the mood for that kind of thing, nothing comes close.

― you will be shot (you will be shot), Friday, 31 December 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

Making my way through the duet(s) disc - marvellous.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 18 December 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Died yesterday in Paris after a sudden worsening in what had been a long illness. No published obits anywhere, but I have this on good authority.

RIP.

― Tim R-J, Friday, 26 September 2008 11:23 (seventeen years ago)

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