Symphonic Dance no. 7 (Seven Symphonic Dances, op. 23)

Vladigerov's Seven Symphonic Bulgarian Dances, op. 23, come from his Berlin years and remained among the works he revisited longest — he was still making transcriptions from them in the 1970s. Each dance is built on a different asymmetrical Balkan metre, paidushko and rachenitsa among them, and treats it as material for symphonic development rather than as local colour to be quoted. The seventh is the largest and closes the set. The harmony and orchestral layering come from the German music Vladigerov absorbed as a student, applied to rhythms none of his teachers would have recognised.