One of the pioneers of spectral music, Romanian composer Horatiu Radulescu experimented with the raw sonorities of instruments and their overtones, and sought novel ways to use them in familiar forms. His avant-garde approach to sound production and his seemingly contradictory adherence to the traditional sonata and the string quartet -- Radulescu composed six of each -- give the music ambiguity, a mixture of scientific processes and otherworldliness. To express the nearly mystical feeling his music evokes, Radulescu ...
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One of the pioneers of spectral music, Romanian composer Horatiu Radulescu experimented with the raw sonorities of instruments and their overtones, and sought novel ways to use them in familiar forms. His avant-garde approach to sound production and his seemingly contradictory adherence to the traditional sonata and the string quartet -- Radulescu composed six of each -- give the music ambiguity, a mixture of scientific processes and otherworldliness. To express the nearly mystical feeling his music evokes, Radulescu frequently quoted passages drawn from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching , as in the subtitle of his Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 82, "being and non-being create each other," the Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 106, "settle your dust, this is the primal identity," and the String Quartet No. 5, Op. 89, "before the universe was born." With this 2016 release on Mode, pianist Stephen Clarke and the JACK Quartet start a series of Radulescu's complete piano sonatas and string quartets, and this is an auspicious...
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