I received a number of requests for a second posting of recordings by Bulgarian composers from my collection of Balkanton recordings made in conjunction with the Union of Bulgarian Composers.
This second offering features works written after 1950 and those who like decided modern works in that spiky style with dissonances, tone clusters, sudden meter adjustments etc. will find much to admire here. I think that this, along with the first posting, offer a nice survey of how Bulgarian music progressed stylistically during the first three quarters of the 20th century.
The works offered are Mara Petrova's Overture My Motherland, Alexander Raichev's Third Symphony, Dimitar Hristov's Concert Miniatures and Alexander Tanev's Divertimento-Concertante for Piano and Orchestra.
I hope you, the listener, find much to enjoy here.
