Romanian music

[Dundonnell]

Thanks Atsushi for your big uploads of Rumanian music Very much appreciated

[Jacky]

  :oI recieved a message concerning dead links for my upload of romanian string quartets.Searching further I discovered that all my links have disappeared and the mediafire is totally changed.Does someone from here now what happened to MF?

[eschiss1]

Hrm. Checked my Mediafire links to folders and direct to files - they still seem to work. How did you create the links?

[Jacky]

Free hosting.uploaded up to 200 MB.

[eschiss1]

... I meant, what technique did you use? I clicked "share" - share folder or share file, as needed - and copied/pasted the link it provided me with.

[shamokin88]

With respect to the new Cuclin symphony - and a thanks for that - the word for twenty is douzaceci and that is what I think I hear at the end.

[Holger]

I also did some research in case of this new Cuclin symphony and can confirm it must be No. 20 indeed. MGG (the German music encyclopedia) give C Minor as key of No. 20, and this symphony is really in C Minor. The full title is: Symphony No. 20 in C Minor "The Triumph of the Brotherhood of Peoples", and it was composed in 1972.

[lechner1110]

  Thank you very much tell me correct information.
  I modified my upload now

[eschiss1]

Thanks for uploading Cuclin 20! (I wonder if the score has been published and what the movement headings of its movements - movement? - time to go listen - are ... )

[Jacky]

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.

[Jacky]

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.

[Jacky]

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).

[Jacky]

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.

[jowcol]

Symphony #3 (Chamber Symphony) by Mihail Andricu


(Pianist unknown)
Ars Mundi Ensemble
Modest, Chichirdan, Conductor

I hope Jaky can tell us more about this work. 

Here is one sketch about him:


A chamber music pianist with an international career spanning 32 years, Mihail Andricu was born in Bucharest and studied at the city's Music Conservatoire where he subsequently became Professor of chamber music (1926 – 1948) and of composition (1948 – 1959).
He studied several years in Paris with Fauré and d'Indy, and at 25 he also became a graduate of the Law University in Bucharest.

A prolific composer, Andricu produced over 50 symphonic works – including ten symphonies – over 30 chamber music works as well as vocal, choral, ballet and incidental music.

He was awarded consecutively the Second and the First prize in the George Enescu competition for composers; the Enescu Prize of the Romanian Academy, international prizes as well as many distinguished state prizes after 1945.

He became a member of the Société française de musicologie in Paris and his writings on Debussy, jazz, and the role of folklore in Romanian classical music were published both in France and in Romania.


And this is an interesting snippet from a blog called Music and Politics, which covered how Andricu was covered in the "Rumanian Review" from 1946-56.
http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicandpolitics/archive/2009-2/crotty.html

In the Review's very first issue, composer Mihail Andricu offers a condensed survey of Romanian music activity. [8] Andricu's name recurs positively in all Review articles under consideration, with particular praise directed towards his symphonies. Composers' Union president Matei Socor might have found Andricu's music lacking in socialist intent (5/1949), but his symphonies attracted enough peer praise for the authorities to present him to the increasingly suspicious and Cold-War-informed West as an artist engaged in the respected "European" form. Andricu's symphonies, acceptable to the authorities in Bucharest because of the composer's musical nationalism, continued to link Romania to the West for propaganda purposes, and to the East through the Soviet belief in the symphonic form. Andricu's ambiguous collectivist-individualist streak worked for him until he fell foul of communist authorities in the late 1950s.

[ttle]

Thanks for posting this! To make sure that there is no confusion in my mind, is this the Symphony No. 3 (out of the 11 numbered symphonies by Andricu), completed in 1950, or the Chamber Symphony No. 3, completed in 1965?