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2021-10-24 14:09:00
JURY John AxelrodPrincipal Guest Conductor of the City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra; Artistic Director of the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla Tilmann BoettcherLeitender Dramaturg at Beethoven Orchester in Bonn Oleg CaetaniPrize Winner at RAI (Italian National Radio Television Orchestra) in Turin and Karajan Competition in Berlin Mihai ConstantinescuExecutive Director at George Enescu Festival Ruben JaisGeneral […]
2021-10-13 06:45:06
The Romanian Culture Ministry decided that Măcelaru would take over from Vladimir Jurowski, who held the role between 2017 and 2021. George Enescu Festival is one of the most prominent classical music events in Eastern Europe and has been running since 1958. Born in Timișoara, Romania, Măcelaru began his career as a violinist. At the […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-09-22 16:01:04
Held in Bucharest's Grand Palace Hall, the program also featured Enescu's Romanian Rhapsody in D Major and Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 in E minor. Currently being held until September 26, the George Enescu Festival is held in honor of the celebrated Romanian composer George Enescu — and has become one of the biggest classical […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2019-09-13 07:58:00
CLARA AT 200
[…] also tomorrow night to mark the occasion. And there is a lot more, far too much to list here, because there's something else I want to show you today.This is a little musicological/narrative digression. First, listen to this: it's what happened when the Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu found a special way to introduce the Clara Schumann Piano Concerto to an unsuspecting audience just the other day, playing its slow movement as an encore at the George Enescu Festival in Bucharest - aided and abetted by the lead cellist of the Orchestre National de France.Now... this work has its ups and downs and the slow movement is definitely an up. But it is much more significant than that. This work demonstrates that Clara's presence and influence are so inextricably embedded in our musical consciousness that most of us didn't even know it was there. Have a listen to this song by […]