Symphony No.2; Psalm; Symphony No. 4 (1995)

"Born in 1926, Anatol Vieru was a music theoretician, influential pedagogue, and a leading Romanian composer of the 20th century. A pupil of Aram Khachaturian, he composed seven symphonies, eight string quartets, numerous concertos, plenty of chamber music and three operas. The music of Anatol Vieru occupies a curious middle ground between the age-old and the ultra-new: his initial musical impulses were born of the Romanian folksong he heard around him as he grew up, though he soon evolved towards the mainstream of European modernism. Vierus earliest songs draw heavily on traits typical of Romanian folk music, for which he harmonized popular melodies and texts."