Octavian Nemescu, Diana Rotaru

condition (discs/cover): M / M (still sealed)

Octavian Nemescu (1940-2020), one of the central figures of the Romanian spectral school, spent decades on a cycle called The Music of the Hours, with a piece for each hour of the day. Ideally, he wrote, it would be played in a twelve-storey building shaped like a double pyramid, each hour on its own floor. This box covers the morning, from BeitSonorum for six o'clock to OU for eleven, in works composed between 1999 and 2004 and lasting from half an hour to almost fifty minutes.

Expect slow, archetypal music built on single sounds, intervals and vowels, closer to ritual than to concert. It also includes Nemescu's earlier Naturel-Culturel (1973/1983) and The Last Unicorn by his former student Diana Rotaru. Released in 2011 by Electrecord, the historic Romanian state label, with a cover by painter Marin Gherasim.