Composing Activity

Composer Liviu Borlan approached almost all music genres: symphonic music, chamber music, brass music, vocal and instrumental, choral – secular and religious – instrumental songs for children, pop music, orchestrations for vocal groups and ensembles – instrumentals.

Symphonic Music:

  • “Satmar 1000” Overture (1974);
  • Someșeana Rhapsody(1975);
  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra “Romantic XX” (1976);
  • Concertino for viola and strings (1979);
  • Concertino for orchestra (1980);
  • Serenade for violin and string orchestra(1982).

Marching Band Music:

  • Rhapsody (1984);
  • 5 Dances from Oas (1986)

Chamber music:

  • Monosonată (1984), for violin and piano

Choral Music:

  • Triptych Choral from Maramures(1963), for mixed choir;
  • Glory to you Romania (1964), for mixed choir;
  • Until a Heart Beating (1966), for mixed choir;
  • I am a Miner (1967), for mixed choir;
  • Ad Pacem (1972), for mixed choir;
  • A century of Romanian Songs (1973), for mixed choir;
  • Madrigal Serenade (1974), for mixed choir, Lyrics Liviu Borlan;
  • Land of our Dreams(1974), for mixed choir;
  • Song for the First of Mai (1974), for mixed choir, Lyrics Liviu Borlan;
  • Song for Vasile Lucaciu (1975), for mixed choir;
  • Oh, My Country (1975), for mixed choir, Lyrics Alexandru Bălănescu;
  • Forest Workers (1976), for mixed choir, Popular Lyrics;
  • From Love and Longing (1977), for mixed choir, Lyrics Liviu Borlan;
  • Moisei (1978), for mixed choir, Lyrics Ion Brad;
  • Someșana Epic (1979), for mixed choir, Lyrics Liviu Borlan;
  • Good Evening Window (1979), carol for mixed choir, Popular Lyrics;
  • Until a Beating Heart(1980), for male choir, Lyrics Liviu Borlan;
  • Damned you, Gutâi (1980), for three equal voices, popular lyrics in: Echo of the Motherland, București, Editura ICED, 1981;
  • New song of Cradle and peace (1980), for soprano and female chorus, Lyrics Liviu Borlan;
  • The Maramures Bartok’s Footsteps (1980), poem for soloists, mixed choir and percussion, popular verse;
  • Dignity (1980), poem for mixed choir, Lyrics Sebastian Popescu;
  • Ancestral Home (1981), for mixed choir, Lyrics Sebastian Popescu;
  • Covenant (1981), for mixed choir, Lyrics Sebastian Popescu;
  • Fairy House (1981), for mixed choir, Lyrics Ion Vădan;
  • Headed by Party (1981), for male choir, Lyrics Sebastian Popescu;
  • White Flowers of Peace (1982), for equal voices, Lyrics Liviu Borlan;
  • Desire (1982), for male choir, Lyrics Octavian Goga;
  • Wedding Song in Vad (1982), processing for three equal voices, popular lyrics;
  • A Song for Romania (1982), for mixed choirt, Lyrics Sebastian Popescu;
  • Ionaș’Song (1982), for mixed choir, Lyrics Gavrilă Bledea;
  • The Host’s Hard Sleep (1982), processing for mixed choir, versuri populare;
  • Founders of the Country Ballad (1983), for male choir, Lyrics Gheorghe Chivu;
  • Oltenea’s Suite (1983), for mixed choirt, Popular Lyrics;
  • Mine Flowers (1983), suite for male choir, Popular Lyrics și de Ion Șugariu și Liviu Borlan;
  • Maramures Legend(1983), for male choir, Lyrics Liviu Borlan;
  • Now or Never, Peace (1983), for mixed choir, Lyrics Anghel Pop;
  • Pintea’s Judgement (1983), poem for mixed choir, Popular Lyrics;
  • Those with Romanian heart (1983), for mixed choir , Lyrics Liviu Borlan;
  • Out of Love for the Country(1983), for mixed choir, Lyrics Anghel Pop;
  • Triptic at Țebea (1983), tenor, reciter and male choir, lyrics Ioan Meitoiu;
  • Oltenia’s Suite (1984), for mixed choir, Popular Lyrics;
  • Doina (1984), for mixed choir, Lyrics Liviu Borlan;
  • By Loviștei Country (1985), for reciter, for mixed Choir and percussion instruments, popular verse;
  • Transylvanian Lands (1985), for Women choir, Lyrics Doina Mindras;
  • Supreme Creed (1986), for male choir, Lyrics Vasile Gaftone;
  • Transilvanya Suite nr. 1 (1986), processing for baritone solo and mixed choir, Popular Lyrics.
  • Doina from Ardeal (1987), for mixed choir, Lyrics Liviu Borlan,

After 1987 his work included composing:

  • Song about outlawry
  • A Song from Chioar, for mixed choir
  • Three-piece fiddle, for mixed choir
  • Lullaby, for mixed choir
  • Well, my sweetheart, you will see, for mixed choir
  • The Altar of our Ancestors’s Faith, for mixed choir
  • Legend cut in wood, for mixed choir
  • My sweetheart passes by, for mixed choir

Songs for Children:

  • First day of school(1976);
  • The play of the children (1978);
  • Table of Silence (1979);
  • The Life, The Peace (1980);
  • Tomorrow, when we’ll grow up(1984).

Pop Music:

  • I’m not a child anymore (1963), for voice and piano;
  • A Lost Song(1967), for voice and piano
  • Later Time (1969), for voice and piano.

Material taken from the paper “Musicians from Romania”, lexicon bio-bibliografic vol.1 , Viorel Cosma , Editura Muzicală, Bucharesti, 1989.