László Dubrovay, Ricardo Mandolini, Tamas Ungvary

condition (record/cover): NM / NM  + Insert included.

Elektronmusikstudion, the Swedish research center that had been a hub for European computer music since the 1970s) and the Electronic Studio of the Technische Universität Berlin. That Hungarian composers were working in Stockholm and Berlin at all requires context. László Dubrovay (b. 1943) had moved between Budapest and West Germany since a DAAD scholarship in 1972-74 took him to study electronic music with Hans-Ulrich Rumpert and composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen; he had been teaching music theory at the Budapest Academy since 1976, and spent 1985 in Berlin as part of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm. The institutional connections he built during those years gave him access to facilities that did not exist in Hungary.

Dubrovay contributes three works: Szonata szamitogepre (Sonata for Computer, 1984), his most extended pure computer music piece; Felhangok II (Harmonics II, 1983); and Parte con moto (1984). Argentine-born composer Ricardo Mandolini contributes Andromeda (1984), for percussion and computer - live instrument against its electronic environment, percussionist Martin Schulz performing. Tamás Ungváry's L'aube des flammes (1984) closes the LP, a thirteen-minute work for computer alone.

From the 1990s Dubrovay moved decisively away from electronic music toward a late-Romantic Hungarian idiom; this LP preserves the earlier moment, and with it a period in his development he never returned to. Original Hungaroton pressing, with notes in Hungarian, English, and German.