Nicolae Brînduș
Nicolae Brînduș (1935-2023) was a Romanian composer, pianist and teacher, born in Bucharest. His catalogue runs from opera and orchestral music to chamber works, instrumental theatre and pieces with electronics. He attended the Darmstadt summer courses from 1969 onwards, and the Bucharest ensemble Musica Nova gave the first performance of his Vagues there in 1972. Brînduș studied piano (1952-1957) and composition (1960-1964) in Bucharest and was solo pianist of the Ploiești Philharmonic from 1960 to 1969.
Aliases: Nicolae Brînduș
Musica Nova (LP)
Rare 1978 album on Electrecord presenting four impressive modernist/spectralist/heterophonic chamber music compositions spanning from 1969 to 1974 by four experimental and higly original Romaniam composers.
Soliloque I / Soliloque IV / Match / Antifonia, Untitled, Zürahümnah
Timo van Luijk's labels Metaphon and La Scie Dorée present three essential releases that map the territory of contemporary experimental music - from the vaults of Romanian fury to the birth of generative sound, from Darmstadt radicalism to psychedelic meditation.
Nicolae Brînduș's Match / Soliloque 1&4 / Antifonia (1986) remains the most eccentric entry in Electrecord's legendary RCM series - a controlled explosion where Romanian folk memory meets spectral composition, free jazz violence, and ta…
Match / Soliloque 1&4 / Antifonia
Nicolae Brînduş's Match / Soliloque 1&4 / Antifonia reissues the composer’s most eccentric works from the PHTORA cycle (1968-1972), blending collective improvisation, spectral tradition, Romanian folklore, and free jazz into a mesmerizing tapestry. Tape manipulations and reverberation add depth, while Ana Golici’s sleeve art captures the album’s vivid sensibility.
Soliloque I, Soliloque IV, Match, Antifonia
Nicolae Brînduș was born in Bucharest in 1935 and swiftly
matriculated through his studies in Piano & Composition at
the National University of Music before embarking on the life-changing
seminars at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt
throughout the late 60s & early 70s; even working at Ircam for a
spell in the mid-1980s. How this formative music, composed & recorded largely during his
Darmstadt phase, has remained so relatively unknown is insane to me; it
has all of…