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Kitsch _ N

Description: Recording of Nicolae Brînduș's Kitsch_N for clarinet, saxophones, Hungarian folk instruments, and tape. It is an instrumental theatre subscribed to the preoccupation of the author with controlling randomness in a musical action where the sound, attitude and stage gestures are structurally corroborated widening the domain of the performance. It is the second piece of a cycle named Vagues where the author develops similar stochastic principles of composition.
Date: 1981
Duration: 18 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Brînduș, Nicolae

Klagovisor

Description: Recording of Ákos Rozman's Klagovisor. This work is written in memory of the composer's mother. The use of an old dried-out zither is used within the piece. There are also sounds of strings and crying, wailing vocal fragments from Hungarian folk music groups. The piece consists of thirteen short movements that blend into each other. Text by Isabel Thomson, was heavily inspired by Ákos Rózmann.
Date: 1987
Duration: 18 minutes 15 seconds
Creator: Rozman, Ákos

Match - Monody I & Polyphony IV

Description: Recording of Nicolae Brînduș's Match - Monody I & Polyphony IV. It is a version dedicated to the Ensemble "Ars Nova" from Cluj Ð Romanian and based on collages of traditional folk dances from Romania's northern area of Maramures and ancestral laments from the regions of Banat and Oltenia. The final tape was re-positioned in the frame of the performers' controlled improvisation live which follows the same principles of composition. It became a sort of an ancestral memento to the momentary perfor… more
Date: 1981
Duration: 19 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Brînduș, Nicolae

Souvenir de K

Description: Recording of Itsvan Szigeti's Souvenir de K. The form of the piece as the composer describes it is: Inner form - determined by the content of the poem. It is built up by dream-like, blending episodes as a quasi-birth; Outer form - freely handled rondo and bridge; Rondo- The returns certain soundings/mostly singing separated vowels/ in a modulated - almost periodical - way; Bridge - The correspondence of the time-spheres of certain episodes; Ordering principle - mathematics, statistics as well a… more
Date: 1980
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 18 seconds
Creator: Szigeti, István, 1952-
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