Sep 20, 2023 | Enescu Festival 2023
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania LE BALCONORCHESTRA OF THE ROMANIAN NATIONAL OPERAMAXIME PASCAL conductorCHOIR OF THE ROMANIAN NATIONAL OPERAETHAN SCHMEISSER conductor of the choirROMANIAN RADIO ACADEMIC...
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...
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...
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...
Sep 17, 2023 | Enescu Festival 2023, Videos
Sunday, September 17, 2023 Radio Hall, Bucharest, Romania This third of seven Enescu Festival events on this particular Sunday (not untypical in terms of numbers, the first of which was the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra playing in the Odeon Theatre) found this...
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...