VIDEO PODCAST: Slava Ukraini! - recorded on the day Europe woke up to the news that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces had invaded Ukraine. Also features Caitríona O'Leary and Eric Fraad discussing their new film Island of Saints, and pays tribute to Joseph Horovitz, Malcolm Troup and Maria Nockin.
DISCUSSION: What is a work? John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about The performing artist as co-creator, including contributions from Halida Dinova, Yekaterina Lebedeva, Béla Hartmann, David Arditti and Stephen Francis Vasta.
Romanian composer and conductor Cornel Țăranu was born in Cluj-Napoca on 20 June 1934. He studied with Sigismund Toduță at the music conservatory in Cluj, then at the Paris Conservatoire with Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen, then in Darmstadt with Christoph Caskel, György Ligeti and Bruno Maderna.
He was professor of composition at the Gheorghe Dima Academy of Music in Cluj and from 1990 was vice-president of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists. He founded and ran the festival Cluj Modern.
His research into the music of George Enescu included completing several unfinished Enescu works.
His own output as a composer included two operas - The Secret of Don Giovanni and Oreste and Oedipe, plus choral music, songs, chamber and film music.
Cornel Țăranu died on 18 June 2023, aged eighty-eight.