Chorus
of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Society –
founded in 1940 under the leadership of Ion Croitoru, has established
itself in a short while as an elite ensemble, directed by D.
Botez, D. Stancu, Gh. Danga, C. Petrovici, Elenescu, A. Sumski,
Litvin, Grigoras, the current conductor being Dan
Mihai Goia . Thousands of minutes of special recordings
a cappella and vocal-symphonic concertos (Beethoven’s
Ninth Symphony, Mass in B minor, Bach’s Mathäuss
Passion and Weihnachts Oratorium, Haydn’s Jahreszeiten,
Mozart’s Koronation Mess and Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem,
Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, Orff’s Carmina burana,
Enescu’s Third Symphony, and many others), television
programmes have led to the chorus remarkable diversifying its
repertoire and to achieving a high performance standard.
Numerous Romanian composers have written specially for it, works
that the chorus interpreted in concert or premièred in
recordings.
It has embarked on tours to Germany, Bulgaria, Spain, Greece,
Cyprus, Israel etc., often collaborating with noted orchestras,
under prestigious conductors in the country and abroad (Comissiona,
Conta, H. Andreescu, Ionescu-Galati, Dumbraveanu, Asensio, Oramo,
J. Wang, N. Thompson and others.). In 1996 it received the Critics
Union Award.
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