Henri Lazarof

condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (ring wear) Gatefold sleeve.

Henri Lazarof, born in Sofia in 1932, trained in Israel and then in Rome with Goffredo Petrassi before settling in California, brings to this Avant Records LP the particular clarity and structural discipline that his European formation instilled - a post-serial language rooted in intervallic coherence and dramatic formal logic, without the dryness that sometimes afflicts more doctrinaire approaches. His Cadence series - of which Cadence VI appears here - constitutes his most sustained engagement with the relationship between a solo instrument and an electronic or orchestral environment: works in which the cadenza, traditionally a moment of soloist display within a concerto framework, is reimagined as the entire structural principle, the soloist perpetually both exposed and in dialogue. The Third Chamber Concerto For Twelve Soloists extends this interest to a chamber scale, distributing the concertante function across an ensemble. Adieu For Clarinet And Piano shows a more lyrical and concentrated Lazarof, the farewell of the title carrying its weight without sentimentality.