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 – 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 – Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Tugan Sokhiev conducts Symphonies by Enescu (No.1) and Tchaikovsky (No.5). Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.

Enescu Festival 2023 – Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Tugan Sokhiev conducts Symphonies by Enescu (No.1) and Tchaikovsky (No.5). Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.

Sep 15, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Enescu Festival 2023, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Tugan Sokhiev Friday, September 15, 2023 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania For the first of its two concerts at the Enescu Festival (the second is tomorrow), Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Antonio Pappano, music...
Enescu Festival 2023 – Collegium Vocale Gent. Philippe Herreweghe conducts Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B-minor, BWV232. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.

Enescu Festival 2023 – Collegium Vocale Gent. Philippe Herreweghe conducts Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B-minor, BWV232. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.

Sep 15, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Enescu Festival 2023, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos

Friday, September 15, 2023 The Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest I rarely listen to what I know to be Bach’s wonderful musical statement, but having become bewitched by this year’s Enescu Festival and its numerous daily events, not least the amazing roll-call...