Rădulescu

AGP 85 is dedicated to Horaţiu Rădulescu, a Romanian composer living in France.

He has been working on spectral music since the late 1960s, but in a way that differs from that of the more famous French composers Grisey and Murail. Indeed, rather than constructing "harmonies," he uses his own music. or figurations, as is the case with the French, Radulescu tends to construct sounds with variable spectral density using specially developed performance techniques and making extensive use of the concept of ring modulation, which produces sums and differences of given frequencies.

Among the four pieces included in AGP 85, freely downloadable in FLAC format (lossless compression), I'll show you Frenetico il longing di amare, opus 56 (1984-87).

This piece is for bass, contrabass flute (or octobass), and sound icon. This last instrument is none other than a piano harp placed vertically, with a non-standard tuning, defined by the composer based on the spectral components he intends to utilize. The strings are played with a bow, and in this piece it serves as a drone, its sounds spectrally colored by the other instruments.

Horaţiu Rădulescu – Frenetico il longing di amare, opus 56 (1984-87)

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