Enescu Festival 2023 – Orchestre National de France. Cristian Măcelaru conducts Boulez’s Notations & Stravinsky’s Rite, with Augustin Hadelich playing Dutilleux’s L’Arbre des songes. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.

Enescu Festival 2023 – Orchestre National de France. Cristian Măcelaru conducts Boulez’s Notations & Stravinsky’s Rite, with Augustin Hadelich playing Dutilleux’s L’Arbre des songes. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.

Sep 21, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Enescu Festival 2023, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Thursday, September 21, 2023 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania Opening with the five Notations (I-IV & VII; 1945) that Pierre Boulez expanded from the aphoristic yet fertile piano originals (the plan was for him to do all twelve) and scored...
Enescu Festival 2023 – Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Cristian Mandeal conducts Kodály & Enescu, with Sheku Kanneh-Mason playing Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.

Enescu Festival 2023 – Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Cristian Mandeal conducts Kodály & Enescu, with Sheku Kanneh-Mason playing Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.

Sep 19, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Enescu Festival 2023, Videos

Tuesday, September 19, 2023 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania On home turf, the Hungarian National Philharmonic opened with Kodály’s Dances of Galánta, responding with gypsy fervour to (Romanian) Cristian Mandeal, not a conductor to...
Enescu Festival 2023 – Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Charles Dutoit conducts Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, with Martha Argerich playing Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.

Enescu Festival 2023 – Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Charles Dutoit conducts Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, with Martha Argerich playing Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.

Sep 18, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Enescu Festival 2023, Videos

Monday, September 18, 2023 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania For the first of its two Enescu Festival evenings (Cristian Mandeal conducts the HNPO tomorrow), Charles Dutoit included the Pastorale-fantaisie by the composer eponymous to this...
Enescu Festival 2023 – George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir. Arnaud Arbet conducts Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre. Live stream on Enescu Festival website.

Enescu Festival 2023 – George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir. Arnaud Arbet conducts Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre. Live stream on Enescu Festival website.

Sep 17, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Enescu Festival 2023, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

György Ligeti (1923-2006) Sunday, September 17, 2023 The Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest Not many operas begin with a car-horn consort, but Ligeti’s wacky, weird and wonderful Le Grand Macabre does, a prelude to a surreal score that keeps the ear guessing and...
Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Iannis Xenakis, Márton Illés, Karl Amadeus Hartmann (Christian Gerhaher performs Gesangsszene) and György Kurtág. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.

Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Iannis Xenakis, Márton Illés, Karl Amadeus Hartmann (Christian Gerhaher performs Gesangsszene) and György Kurtág. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.

Sep 16, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Enescu Festival 2023, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Márton Illés (born 1975) Saturday, September 16, 2023 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin “A concert full of orchestral force: Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Gesangsszene from Sodom and Gomorrah – composed in 1962/63 under the...
Enescu Festival 2023 – State Philharmonic Orchestra of Sibiu. Roderick Cox conducts Ligeti & Tchaikovsky, with Ioana Cristina Goicea playing Korngold’s Violin Concerto. Live stream on Enescu Festival website.

Enescu Festival 2023 – State Philharmonic Orchestra of Sibiu. Roderick Cox conducts Ligeti & Tchaikovsky, with Ioana Cristina Goicea playing Korngold’s Violin Concerto. Live stream on Enescu Festival website.

Sep 16, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Enescu Festival 2023, Videos

Saturday, September 16, 2023 Radio Hall, Bucharest, Romania Following Ligeti’s Lontano – which put the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Sibiu on its mettle regarding dynamics, sustained notes and creating a suspenseful atmosphere, as well as something...