Looking for recordings of Vasilije Mokranjac
Posted by Robert on December 22, 2021, 9:28 am
Among the seemingly bottomless goldmine of extraordinary music composed behind the Iron Curtain during The Cold War, one of the numerous highlights for me is the magnificent orchestral music of the late Serbian composer Vasilije Mokranjac. He composed five symphonies of which I have not as yet managed to find any recordings, but it is the especially powerful and haunting masterpiece of his Fourth from 1972 that I am especially keen to obtain. According to the late and inimitable Michael Herman, this symphony exists on a Serbian Sokoj CD released in 1998, strangely it seems it was never recorded on LP. I was not aware of Mokranjac back then and I have no idea if this CD received wide distribution at the time. If any readers know of where this CD may be found, I would be very grateful for any information. Before anyone suggests Ebay, Discogs or the like, I have dipped my toes in those waters but shall not be doing so again.
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