Marina Vlad was the wife of composer Ulpiu Vlad (*1945), the mother of composer Roman Vlad (*1982) – and she was a great composer, too! Among her teachers were no lesser than Ştefan Niculescu, Myriam Marbe and Aurel Stroe, and from 1973 to 2002 she taught herself at the National University of Music in Bucharest.

My heartfelt thanks go to Ulpiu Vlad who helped me so much finally to make her music ring out again! In this playlist you can find it:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAQZOrY73zxV46njjAyJVKvIjgvkTSxV-

In March 2021, Berlin's Mirage String Quartet made some excellent recordings of works by eminent Romanian-German composer Violeta Dinescu (*1953), including her new string quartet "Nur manchmal träumerisch" ("Just sometimes dreamy").

They uploaded them on their new and so far nearly undiscovered YT channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ9SNsbCIPNkcJGe6c3OdrA

Some of the uploads are just teasers, but apart from the new quartet, there are complete performances by "Satya I" for solo violin (1980) and of "Wu-Li" for violin and cello (1994).

Four composers' channels that imho deserve much more attention:


Dimitri Terzakis (Greek-German composer, *1938):

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLbbJe3GyPyGDiSY9bwPWIg


Maia Ciobanu (Romanian composer, *1952):

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVoIuS5DFyf6ESzH3ZPbFbA


Sorin Lerescu (Romanian composer and conductor, *1953):

https://www.youtube.com/user/sonant100


Krassimir Taskov (Bulgarian composer and pianist, *1955):

https://www.youtube.com/user/MrKTaskov

I would prefer a transcendent or transient disclosure.

Didier Schein is a French-born composer living in Straja (near Cluj-Napoca) in Romania.


Sonata for viola solo "Nachdenken" (2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuVM6iflEV8


"Hétérophonies" for flute orchestra (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLIGxkz5wrQ


"Copac [Romanian for 'tree']" for B-flat clarinet (2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKG2vwALTLU


Случаи (Incidences). Miniatures dedicated to Daniil Kharms with Mussorgsky and birds, for clarinet (2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBY6GwXYhNY


"Rhinoceros" after Eugène Ionesco. Interlude from Act II. Version for clarinet in B♭ and clarinet in A (2022)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=420hETJiZC4


Didier Schein (*1969): Piano sonata no. 2 "Mandala" (2022)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxLcIPWaCIg

If one thinks of Luboš Fišer, it is either of his multi-stylistic film music - for which he could be called Czechoslovakia's Ennio Morricone - or of his mostly atonal, very serious, intense and expressive concert works.

Piano sonata no. 1 (1955)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv2VJNsy3_s

Symphony no. 1 (1955-1956)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy9lGdCig54

Piano sonata no. 3 (1960) - the work that marked Fišer's breakthrough to his personal style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzloJYfymKM

"Symphonic fresco" for orchestra (1963)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhUBlvkDAQo

"Relief" for organ (1964)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mvhgkClOeY

"Fifteen pages after Dürer's Apocalypse" for orchestra (1965)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md-N_vKEnRY

"Crux" for violin, timpani and bells (1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbA8lL-lz5k

"Lament over the ruined town of Ur" on an ancient Sumerian text, for soprano and baritone soloists, three reciters, children's, mixed and reciters' choirs, seven tympani, bells, and two conductors (1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnMxvXlL8QI

Sonata for cello and piano (1975)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhzJxnxQbxk

Piano sonata no. 6 "Fras (The devil)" (1978)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1oLvm_Ehsw

Sonata for violin solo "In memoriam Terezín" (1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMQZgrhXJF8

Piano sonata no. 8 (1995)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vICUBs8wmWk

Sonata for orchestra (1998)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62-0gRK79JM

Richard Maxfield was a composer of instrumental, electro-acoustic, and electronic music. Born in Seattle, WA he began composing in high school. He later enrolled at Stanford University, but shortly transferred to U.C. Berkeley in 1947 to study with Roger Sessions, whose work he had developed a great admiration for. After graduating in 1951, Maxfield traveled to Europe, where he was introduced to Boulez, Stockhausen, Nono, and crucially electronic tape music for the first time. He composed instrumental scores in a Neo-Classical style, and then adopted 12-tone techniques, eventually studying at Princeton University with Milton Babbitt. Maxfield also studied with Krenek, Copland, Maderna, and Dallapiccola. It was the work of John Cage however, who Maxfield met in 1958, that had the biggest influence on the composer. Maxfield began to adopt Cage's technique of chance operations during composition, sometime selecting strips of tape from a bowl at random to splice together. However, unlike other composers who used chance when composing, Maxfield often later edited works according to his taste. Along with his mentee La Monte Young, Maxfield co-curated early Fluxus concerts in New York, and also presented his works at the Living Theatre, and other New York City loft performances (notably Yoko Ono's loft) beginning in the late 1950s. Outside of composing, Maxfield was significantly involved in music education. New Grove's Dictionary of Music calls him "the first teacher of electronic music techniques in the United States." Maxfield taught at the New School in New York City in 1959 (taking over a class taught by Cage) and later at San Francisco State in 1966 and 1967. Maxfield's life was cut tragically short on June 27, 1969, when the composer, then 42 years old, committed suicide by jumping out of a window at the Figueroa Hotel in Los Angeles.
(http://www.pytheasmusic.org/maxfield.html)


The best introduction to his music - and a wonderful thing in itself - is this radio interview from 1960:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_sZxUfzrDY


Piano sonata no. 2 (1948-1949)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0xh0JOkWcE

"Structures" for wind ensemble (1951)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzR8_vRLOtE

Symphony for string orchestra (1951), movement I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jP6TKqYJGk

Variations for string quartet (1954)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAzbcsB_H1k

Composition for violin and pianoforte (1955)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDv3LfVRXJs

Sine music (a swarm of butterflies encountered over the ocean) (1958)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CJWlW3uJl0

Cough music (1959)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AsJ2ID_59M

Pastoral symphony (1959)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0-0BBbigL4

Amazing Grace (1960)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3g0fHmAWMs

Fermentation (1960)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdDHAAJaAJo

Night music (1960)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC6Jmxgr9HA

Peripateia (1959-1961)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yygRLG8EAE8

Dromenon (1961)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEWIvsBK_7U

Perspectives II for La Monte Young (1961)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvd0AZCso9I

Piano concert for David Tudor (1961)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WznfLDKTosk

Wind (1961)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eVu-CaZzFc

Bacchanale (1963)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Hhcx4LvmM

Electronic symphony (1964)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtKFpEnOcZE

For Sonny Wilson (~1966)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEbN8-Ndhwg

You're welcome  :D

A piano score of Vorobyov's symphony can be downloaded here:
http://elbib.nbchr.ru/lib_files/0/ichk_0_0000008.pdf

Hello, I am the one who uploaded the Vorobyov symphony on YouTube. Thank you for correcting my spelling of the conductor's name, I have corrected it now in the video as well. Hopefully I can help you with some information. Since Chuvashia has not produced many composers, Vorobyov is well remembered there, as you can see on this site: http://kapella21.ru/diskografiya/126-gennadij-vorobev-neperekhodyashchie-tsennosti-iskusstva where you can even hear some other works by him and a more recent performance of the symphony.

Here is my translation of a text I found on the site http://gov.cap.ru/hierarhy.asp?page=./1/13313/34350 :

August 13 marks the 85th anniversary of the birth of one of the most gifted of a new generation of Chuvash composers that came up in the late 30’s, Gennady Vasilyevich Vorobyov (1918-1939). He lived a very short life, but his works were so great that the best of them entered the golden fund of Chuvash music.
Gennady Vorobyov was born in 1918 in Cheboksary, Chuvashia, in the family of the composer and choral conductor Vasily Petrovich Vorobyov, one of the founders of the Chuvash professional music.
Since childhood, Gennady Vorobyov’s craving for music was so obvious that he began his studies at a music school, and only then in general education.
The first piano compositions by G. Vorobyov – “Carousel” and “Children’s Suite” (1934-1935) – were written during his studies at the music college of Cheboksary. After brilliantly finishing college, Gennady Vorobyev entered the Moscow Conservatory. On September 15, 1935 in the newspaper “Krasnaya Chuvashia” a TASS report was published “17-year-old composer,” which quoted the head of composition department of the Moscow Conservatory, Professor G. Litinsky: “Vorobyov made a strong impression on the members of the commission at his talent test. In Vorobyov, Chuvashia has a very valuable creative musical force.” It is in the class of Professor G. I. Litinsky that Gennady Vorobyov honed his technique to the level of professionalism, contributing to the solution of large creative tasks. Already in the first two years he wrote a Sonatina for piano, a Sonata for violin and piano, about a dozen treatments of Chuvash folk songs, including the famous “Amartkayak” (“Eagle”) songs on poems by A. S. Pushkin, translated into Chuvash language, and some choral songs.
The creative activities of Gennady Vasilyevich Vorobyov lasted only for six years. But during this time he wrote about 70 works: instrumental chamber and orchestral works, choral songs and ballads, arrangements of Chuvash folk songs. The biggest piece, his four-movement symphony, can be conted among the best creations of Chuvash music ever.
The works of G. Vorobyov were at the same time published in Moscow and Cheboksary. But they have become a rarity. In the state archives of the Chuvash Republic Vorobyov’s printed works are carefully kept. Among them: “Five Chuvash folk songs” (1939), “Holiday on the farm” (1946), “Juras” (Song) (1947), “Pieces for piano” (1969), etc.
On the brief but extremely bright and intense creative searchings and findings in the life of the talented composer Gennady Vorobyov, its wonderful, genuine poetry, expressed in a variety of genres and forms, you can get information in the book by the well-known composer from the Chuvash ASSR and RSFSR, Viktor Alexandrovich Hodyashev, “Gennady Vorobyov: A brief sketch of the life and work,” published by the Chuvash Publishing House in 1968.

Thank you very much for the Goleminov upload! Guerguan Tsenov already put the "Dobri Hristov" variations on YouTube, I could do that with the first symphony (as I did with the second and third - not with the fourth, since it's commercially available). I have also got two different recordings of Goleminov's third string quartet: one by the Avramov Quartet (Sofia, Bulgarian National Radio, Studio 1, 1971), and one by the Sofia Quartet (released by Gega in 1998). Besides, I recently uploaded some Nikolov on YouTube, including his "Prometheus" opera.

Music by Romanian composer Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea (*1959)


Sonatina for piano (1985)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1R71QgjroQ&t=34s


Flute concerto "Ritual pentru fermecarea aerului (Rite for enchanting the air)" (1998)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0wcb9SKvbg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFhgUquyEMY


Le rouge et le noir. Ballet in three acts with prologue and epilogue, based on the eponymous novel by Stendhal (1999)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOU5DfsBcHo


"Evangheliile toamnei (Autumn gospels)" for voice and piano, on a poem by Nichita Stănescu (2002)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-2vGQmOkiE


"Orationes aliquot Sanctæ Brigittæ (Some prayers of Saint Bridget)" for mixed choir a cappella (2002)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im1q5eKbi4c


"Tabaluga Tango" for two bassoons, four contrabassoons, piano, and accordion (2003)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrzErYiJ9Xc


Romulus şi Remus (Romulus and Remus). Trio for two violins and piano (2004)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAM-vKXNiks


"S'amor non è… (If it's not love …)" (Petrarca, Sonnet 132). Song for voice and piano (2007)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5vH4N5LPPo


Mysterium tremendum. Cantata for voice (soprano, mezzo-soprano or tenor) and orchestra (2007, rev. 2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Uwp5OwNnE


Polyspectralia. Trio for clarinet, violin and piano (2008)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QDjNaQmHJQ


Concerto no. 2 for piano and orchestra "Lebenskraft" (2008, rev. 2011)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Xuotz4TTs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGxOclOtQgI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydv6bKdVDpQ


"Endeavour bells" for piano and tape (2008, rev. 2010)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rolQjfXh_RY


Toamnă (Autumn). Song for voice and piano on a poem by Nicolae Coman (2010-2011)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLCPexq6PVI


"Întomnare-n lied (Song at the beginning of autumn)" on a poem by Nicolae Coman (2011)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrqNZFRMSfQ


"Enceladus (Geysers on icy moon)" for piano solo (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XrUPnG3My8


L'isolement (Isolation). Poem for two sopranos and piano four-hands on the eponymous poem by Alphonse de Lamartine (2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DscPSeAwt_s


"Magna Mater – Cybele" for two pianos (2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ox_-9xYbU


"Vecernie (Vespers)" for mixed choir (2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe8SvrW4VvA


Namagiri. Trio for French Horn, violin and piano (2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GamyzzKFl_o


"Chalumeaux de Fontainebleau" for solo B-flat clarinet (2023)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-olDC6IzvU

Music by Argentinian composer Gerardo Gandini (1936-2013)


Variations for orchestra (1962)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ErkIB_iZVQ


"breve" for solo flute (1966)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL4yQuyRvFY


Concerto for viola and orchestra (1979)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZEmrYi9lH4


Soliloquio para oboe (Monologue for oboe) in memoriam Francis Poulenc (1982)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je-8lfmZe4U


"Imaginary landscape" for piano and orchestra (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beOJ85bgayM


La ciudad ausente (The absent city). Opera in two acts on a libretto by Ricardo Piglia (1993-1994)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrAMVwXuFWM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_LsD7Pn83E


"Canciones tristes" for mezzo-soprano, children's choir and orchestra on texts by Fernando Pessoa, Jacobo Fijman, Gottfried Benn and Juan Ramón Jiménez (2003)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV7E99B4MyE


"Música ficción III (Siete versiones de un canto)" for ensemble and piano (1981-2005)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbmfrbDkgGY

Don Rodrigo. Opera in three acts on a libretto by Alejandro Casona op. 31 (1963-1964)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wUI8mmeTLg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8gESfmULvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaj8TpmTuMY


Bomarzo. Opera in two acts based on the novel and the libretto by Manuel Mujica Láinez op. 34 (1966-1967)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7VedPIjqOQ


Beatrix Cenci. Opera in two acts on a libretto by William Shand and Alberto Girri op. 38 (1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS07-JVlzJo

Thorsten Gubatz (*1975, German)

Two bagatelles (1991)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqp3wj1pmQs

Duo (1992)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd_rKnqLcWs

Ex voto (2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r02FAhj45U8

Chaconne (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJsCis4GhyE

Tvísöngur in memoriam Jón Leifs (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGLSHdAV_g4

Ad finem (2016-2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkTL6ETeGS4

In memoriam Avet Terterian (2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPOQD312T1Y

Dunkle Wolken (Dark clouds, 2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1c8G63JYEA

Χρόνια πολλά - for Dimitri Terzakis on his 80th birthday (2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxQbgIyY9js

Monodia (2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhbuJ71TVEg

Ancient music (2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_E6HW6zRXw

Schatten (Shadows, 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMjKHF1-uNM

Renegade waltz (2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xOfIIOPtSM

Barcarole (2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdNMp0nr3sM

violer d'amores (2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHOUgoz46uA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcBLCJ-mGk0

BAZimodo (2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6zRSalbNV4


Four songs (2020-2023)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M0tLdExL5w

Mode d'hauteurs et de valeurs (2023)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxOYOskygo

Donau-Trio (2024)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqPyNgsRI24

Jonas Nabažas (Lithuanian, 1907-2002)


Song about sadness and joy (Daina apie liūdesį ir džiaugsmą).
Symphonic poem on a passage (i.e. the "Nachtwandler-Lied") from Friedrich Nietzsche's "Also sprach Zarathustra"

Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, cond. Modestas Pitrėnas
(Vilnius, Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall, December 15, 2007)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpfYW4gu1Dg


Three chamber works on a 1987 Melodiya LP:

Piano sonata (1930-1931)
played by Aleksandra Juozapėnaitė

String quartet no. 2 (1984)
played by the Vilnius Quartet

Three pieces for piano (1983)
played by Vytautas Korys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsoo7ddyUkg


Two songs on poems by Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas: "Gegutė kukuoja" & "Šaukia" (1970)

Birutė Almonaitytė & Gražina Ručytė-Landsbergienė (recorded October 25, 1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0UmwwRTfsI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtTfhlk3B68


TV portrait of Jonas Nabažas (2002)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74JVpkHB7rg