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Thank you for the Jaell poested today.Her cello sonata is one of the nicest musical utterings I know.

Schuman,Schumann,Toch,Bloch,Wilhelm Georg Berger and Wilhelm Petterson Berger,Verdi and Monteverdi,Weber and Webern...
W.G.Berger is a sad story.As a German in communist Romania,he refused to "go back in Heimat" the BRD.A devoted protestant in an atheistic otherwise orthodox country.A conservative post romantic musical language in the times of avantguard.Before 1989,orchestras had to play and record contemporary Romanian  music-hence a great corpus of recordings and performances of his music and of other composers,generally mixed bag,because,it was after all "a duty"..Nowadays he is a totally unsung composer,not sure a top drawer-his music seems sometimes to be stolid but there's a lot to enjoy whithin a careful listening.
DVD of Oedipe I don't know to exist.Generally speaking Oedipe had better recordings than stage productions.

Essential listening I would characterise the music shared today by MVS.Enescu's unfinished works-completed after his death by Bentoiu and Taranu give us a glimpse in his artistic laboratory.Isis and the fifth symphony are born in the aftermath of Oedipe and you can feel it each moment.Ruzicka the composer understands from inside the musical process and gives us a fantastic rendition.
Wilhelm Georg Berger was a Saxon-the Germans from Transilvania.His music is indeed very german-solid,monumental,spacious,serious-sounds like a more tonal free Reger or a less aventurous Berg.He wrote 24 symphonies,21 string quartets,concertos for various other instruments,chamber music, Masses, musicological books.His music will appeal to those who like the music of Reger, Schmidt, Pfitzner,early Berg and Schonberg,late Strauss...

On 14th of June passed away Dumitru Capoianu,one of the most interesting Romanian composers in the second half of the 20th century.Atracted by jazz,he imbued his music with syncopated jazzy elements,without transforming the musical material in a symphonic jazz.
I posted two month ago some recordings with his music,but the links are dead.I am going to reupload these works.Our member A.S.uploaded on 11th of December the Phoenix suite,and the link still works.

Gorgeous surprise with Zarebsky's quintet played by Spielman and Gimpel!
Thank  you so much!

Just listened to it.It is,definitely a chamber symphony for two main reasons:you can hear the sparse instrumental texture and secondly, there is an historical reason:The very first Romanian chamber symphony was written in 1955 by Enescu,after the Maestro, Vieru,Mendelsohn,Dan Constantinescu wrote works with this title.Andricu's work uploaded here has seemingly the same instrumentarium like Enescu's cs namely piano,strings,winds.If you could give me the unedited tape or the cover I can try to  see if there is any hint regarding the work's name.Anyhow,a long research on the net in romanian, didn't return with notable results.It's next to impossible to find here information about the own musical  national school.Andricu,like Jora,Cuclin,Dragoi,Paul constantinescu,Negrea a.o, had a very unlucky life-grown under the crushing shadow of Enescu,weary because the taxing communist ideology, and overlooked by the posterity.Andricu was a very free person-he organised in his tiny apartament private auditions of jazz-music banned in the fifties in Romania.He had a fake trial and condemned in 1959,his name being banned.Later on,with the thaw that came in the middle sixties,his works were again permited.

A new edition of the International Week of New Music took place in Bucharest.I choosed to upload here two concertante works written by two important Romanian contemporary composers:the fifth flute concerto by Doina Rotaru and Diferencias on themes by Cabezon by Cornel Taranu.It is,imo,very nice music,highly recommended not only to adventurous ears.As I have seen some uploads of fresh music-Kalevi Aho among others-I decided it would be proper for these too.

Some more insights about the unsung composers shared today.
Constantin Bobescu is the uncle of the celebrated violonist Lola Bobescu (some recordings shared here in the Belgian folder)
Ion Hartulary Darclee is the son of one of the greatest operatic voices ever,Hariclea Darclee.Puccini wrote Manon and Tosca for her and Mascagni Iris-among others.The suite is made of 4 parts like a disguised symphony, inspired by the paintings of the great Nicolae Grigorescu:The ox cart(Carul cu boi),From the well (De la izvor).the Shepherdess (Pastorita),the Infantry soldier (Dorbantul).

After a lot of research:
Stan Golestan-Pe varfurile Carpatilor (On the top of the Carpathians) (Varful cu Dor)-concert pentru pian si orchestra
Georgeta Stefanescu Barnea pianist (she)
Zi de sărbătoare" - "Voci în noapte". "Singurătate". "Veselia mulţimii" (Feast day,Voices in the night,Loneliness,Merry crowd,my trnsl).
On the same disc (hope you can also upload) concerto for percussion and 12 instruments by Filip Lazar.

Thank you for the Golestan.It's virtually impossible to find a recording even here in Romania.A long time ago,on Lys,Piero Coppola conducted this "Rhapsodie roumaine".Even if OOP,I can't share it.Golestan,as Lazar or Mihailovici,where Romanian Jews,living most of their lives in France.

I have to thank Elroel for the large amount of uploads and their quality.I urge you,please continue these uploads.I am one of those who uploaded some "gritty,ugly"  music here in the Romanian folder.I think that our fellow members know what to choose.As long this music is not "An Ipad symphony" or "Facebook concerto" i.e is decent,earnest even without being Haydnesque,its place can be,imo,here,on UC.

Strangely but I can't find much about Ziertz on the net.I wanted to listen more and also to learn about this very interesting Gipsy Concert.Can someone here provide some insight regarding this German woman composer?

Thank you for the "deluge" of French Music lately.Despite the crashing shadow of Boulez and Messiaen, a lot of interesting composers wrote a nice amount of good music.
Is there a recording of Milhaud's quintets 3 and 4?

Merci
J

I am listening to the Bohac.Very nice,some Bergian influences.A biographical detail:he passed away in 2006.

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