‘Ziua Fără Sfârșit’
Metaphon 023 LP – 2025
Release date: May 6, 2025
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Composer Corneliu Cezar (1937-1997) was a distinctive personality within the Romanian post 1960 avantgarde: a visionary of music, a thinker and a prophet, a richly gifted artist also active with writing, poetry, painting and astrology. Cezar was an activist rediscovering the natural resonance of sound within a different historical context and he embraced the recovery of authenticity as a reaction against the artificialized culture of serial doctrines. When, after 1975 the spectral music trend became official in Paris, with much fuss and
remarkable support from musicologists, nobody knew that this trend has already been practiced by a small group of Romanian composers lead by Corneliu Cezar for ten years. The four electro-acoustic pieces on this album (privately released on CD in Romania in 2000), recorded with little means between 1967 and 1975, display the incredibly strong ideas of a truly visionary artist. Everything Corneliu Cezar has done during his short earthly life bared the shade of authenticity.
All compositions by Corneliu Cezar
A1- Aum – 8:41 – (1967)
A2- Ziua Fără Sfârșit – 8:55 – (1974)
B1- Rota – 12:36 – (1975)
B2- Taaroa – 7:00 – (1968) (Clarinet by Aurelian-Octav Popa)
Production: Timo van Luijk
Design: Meeuw
Mastering: Erica Nemescu
Liner notes: Octavian Nemescu
Thank you: Sorina and Emanuel Cezar, Yvonne Toader, Aurelian-Octav and Sebastian-Vlad Popa, Erica Nemescu, Rafael Vieru, Christophe Brackx, Jon Dale