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Horatiu Radulescu

Piano Sonatas & String Quartets 1 (LP)

Label: Mode

Format: LP

Genre: Compositional

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Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. The LP was mastered from the 96khz/24-bit files. Lacquers were cut by vinyl veteran Scott Hull at Masterdisk in New York. The LP is pressed by RTI in California, one of the most highly regarded pressing plants in the USA. All of this to insure the best sounding, highest quality LP. After all, why make an LP if it doesn’t sound great and have something special to offer ?

It is packaged with a 4-page insert of liner notes by the late Bob Gilmore and a score excerpt. It also comes with a free Download Card for the entire album, including the Piano Sonata No.2 which had to be left off of the LP due to vinyl side length considerations.The first volume in a projected series combining Radulescu’s complete Piano Sonatas and String Quartets — there are six of each — on Mode performed by the superb JACK Quartet and Stephen Clarke (piano). In the 1970s, Horatiu Radulescu (1942 - 2008) began exploring and composing begun composing what he called “plasmatic music,” in which sound was conceived as an “endless ocean of vibrations,” as opposed to the traditional way in which music treats sound as a fabric of discrete scale steps. His music is linked to the “spectral music” school. Radulescu’s Fifth String Quartet is one of the key works in his output. It is in some ways the richest manifestation of the body of string techniques he had developed for his music. It consists of 29 sections/pages which richly evocative titles, each lasting about 1 minute. The Second Piano Sonata is inspired by the Tao of Chinese philosopher Lao tzu (6-5 BC). The first movement, “Immanence,” opens with a powerful sonority built from spectral functions which gives a sense of immensity and strength. The Fifth Piano Sonata makes abundant use — more so than any of the other sonatas — of Romanian folk material, which is absorbed and integrated into Radulescu’s spectral language. Liner notes by Bob Gilmore.

Details
Cat. number: mode 290lp
Year: 2016
Notes:
Limited edition of 500 numbered copies Includes a 4 page glossy booklet containing notes and a coupon with download code On download only: Piano Sonata No. 2, op.82 "being and non-being create each other" (1991) 1. Immanence 7:40 2. Byzantine Bells 3:33 3. Joy 4:31