Horatiu Radulescu
Clepsydra / Astray (LP)
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Horațiu Rădulescu was the Romanian-born spectralist who heard music as a living organism of overtones. Clepsydra (1982) is written for sixteen "sound icons": grand pianos laid on their side, their strings bowed with threads so that they resonate like vast harmonic fields. The effect is a continuous, slowly breathing mass of partials, unlike anything else in the piano literature.
Astray (1983), written for a double duo and premiered at the Villa Medici festival in Rome in 1984, fills the second side. A 1990 Edition RZ release produced with the DAAD Berliner Künstlerprogramm, with the composer's notes and the label's usual sober design by Nicolaus Ott and Bernard Stein.
Release notes
Clepsydra op. 47 (1982) for 16 Sound Icons (The Sound Icon: a grand piano laying vertically on its side, with the strings played by bowing). Astray op. 50 (1983) for Double Duo was composed for the Roma Villa Medici Musica Festival where it premiered in 1984. Lucero Print, Versailles On sleeve: Made in Germany 1990 This recording was made possible by the Artists-in-Berlin Programme of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Noch Musik. On booklet: © 1990 Printed in Germany On labels:…
| A | Clepsydra | 24:22 | |
| B | Astray | 22:47 |
- Horatiu Radulescu
- Composed By, Liner Notes
- Bernard Stein
- Design
- Nicolaus Ott
- Design
- Petra Junken
- Liner Notes [Übersetzung Aus Dem Englishen]
