Composer: Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea
Performer: Pierre-Yves Artaud, Antonela Barnat
Orchestra: Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Radio Romania Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Valentin Doni, Alan Tongue, Cristian Oroșanu
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0668
Release: 2023
Size: 837 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Archimedes Symphony
01. I. The Assault on Syracuse
02. II. Do Not Touch My Circles
03. III. the Burning Mirrors of Archimedes
04. IV. Elegy at the Tomb of Archimedes – The Sphere and the Cylinder
Rite for Enchanting the Air
05. I Largo
06. II. Mosso agitato
07. III. Più mosso
08. IV. Adagio
Mysterium tremendum
09. I. the Hymn of the Cherubim
10. II. The Gospel of Matthew
11. III. Dies irae
12. IV. Recordare
These three works by the Romanian composer Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea (b. 1959) show her approach to three of the central genres of the western classical tradition: symphony, concerto and cantata. The powerful and programmatic Archimedes Symphony was inspired by the death of Archimedes in the siege of Syracuse in 214 bc; the Rite for Enchanting the Air – a concerto for various flutes and orchestra – is a kind of magical journey into a dizzying world of sound and colour; and the cantata Mysterium tremendum aims to reconcile Byzantine and Catholic liturgical traditions. All three make clear her fascination with orchestral timbre and texture – and have distant roots in Romanian folk-music.