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Press statement on the new directorship at the Enescu Festival from Executive Director of the ...
The nomination of conductor Cristian Macelaru as Artistic Director of the Enescu Festival is auspicious for preserving this event in the top 5 classical music festivals worldwide.
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George Enescu International Festival – the World’s Largest Classical Music Festival in 2021
As George Enescu International Festival came to a close, it announced the numbers of its Jubilee Edition, successfully held from August 28 to September 26, 2021.
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30/09/2021
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Yvonna
Vladimir Jurowski: More than anything else, the Enescu Festival needs a concert hall!
I think what it most needs is a concert hall. It has been promised to us by so many ministers of culture, I have seen three or four who have come and gone; they all made this promise, which remains unfulfilled to this day.
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27/09/2021
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Simona Rentea
DAILY AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 16
Enescu’s Ballade performed on stage at the Festival, after going viral on August 19, the composer’s birthday George Enescu’s Ballade and Caprice Roumain for Violin and Orchestra open today’s concerts at the Romanian Athenaeum and the Grand Palace Hall respectively, performed by two acclaimed violinists and connoisseurs of Enescu’s ...
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19/09/2021
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DAILY AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 18
Classical music, contemporary music, and jazz meet in a wealth of events at the Enescu Festival Cellist Alisa Weilerstein, conductors Paavo Järvi, Tito Ceccherini, and Tiberiu Soare, violinist Carolin Widmann, the Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Radio Chamber Orchestra are just some of the artists headlining today’s Enescu Festival concerts, ...
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18/09/2021
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Rudolf Buchbinder returns to the Enescu Festival for his third participation
Famous pianist Rudolf Buchbinder returns to the Enescu Festival for the third time. The concert given by the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich will be conducted by Maestro Paavo Järvi.
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DAILY AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 15
Conductor Cristian Macelaru to record the complete works by Enescu Yuja Wang returns to the Festival stage * Romanian premiere of the opera Der Zwerg Conductor Cristian Macelaru will record the complete works of Enescu for Deutsche Grammophon, as part of a project estimated to take 10 years. The ...
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16/09/2021
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DAILY AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 14
Starring today at the Enescu Festival: Joyce DiDonato, Yuja Wang, Cristian Macelaru, and Denis Matsuev Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, winner of multiple Grammy Awards and the 2018 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, seen as “probably the most powerful soloist of her generation,” performs works from the Baroque repertoire today ...
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DAILY AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 13
Two Grammy Award winners, conductor Cristian Macelaru and violinist Maxim Vengerov, on the same stage at the Enescu Festival Grammy Award-winning conductor Cristian Macelaru and violinist Maxim Vengerov will take to the stage of the Enescu Festival tonight at 7:30 PM, at the Grand Palace Hall, in a concert ...
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13/09/2021
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DAILY AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 11
Two great violinists of the world, Gil Shaham and Maxim Vengerov, delight the audiences in Romania with their talent and their Stradivarii The Rotterdam Philharmonic and their amazing conductor Lahav Shani, for the first time at the Enescu Festival Two of the world’s greatest violinists, Gil Shaham and Maxim Vengerov, ...
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12/09/2021
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DAILY AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 10
Romanian premiere of the famous opera Die tote Stadt (‘The Dead City’) takes place today at the Enescu Festival Celebrated vocal soloists Céline Scheen and Philippe Jaroussky sing sacred works at the Athenaeum The famous opera Die tote Stadt (‘The Dead City’) by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, an Austrian composer considered ...
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12/09/2021
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DAILY AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 6
Leonidas Kavakos, Valery Gergiev, Ádám Fischer, Maia Morgenstern, and Alexandra Dariescu today at the Enescu Festival Violinist Leonidas Kavakos, famous for his perfect technique, renowned conductors Valery Gergiev and Ádám Fischer, actress Maia Morgenstern, and pianist Alexandra Dariescu headline the Enescu Festival today, September 6, 2021. Leonidas Kavakos, ...
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11/09/2021
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DAILY AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 9
The Art of the Gypsy Fiddler, on the stage of the Enescu Festival through the music of George Enescu Violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky, an outstanding personality with a magnetic creative force, President of the Violin Jury at the Enescu Competition 2020/2021, returns to the stage of the Romanian Athenaeum with an ...
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11/09/2021
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The Genesis of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Opera, Die tote Stadt
by Brendan G Carroll – Copyright 2021 The eminent Viennese critic and musicologist Dr Rudolf Stefan Hoffmann who wrote the first biography of Korngold in 1922, declared that Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s early works dream of opera. Indeed, logically and with an eye to the theatre, his first orchestral composition was ...
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10/09/2021
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DAILY AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 8
Julia Fischer, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Vasily Petrenko, and Edward Gardner in the spotlight Famous conductor Vasily Petrenko at the Festival with two works by Enescu Enescu Festival audiences will welcome today and tomorrow celebrated conductor Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, the only artists at this year’s Festival ...
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08/09/2021
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DAILY AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 7
Violinist and conductor Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and cellist Gautier Capuçon – the renowned soloists to be heard today at the Enescu Festival Celebrated violinist Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider returns to the Enescu Festival to perform alongside the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, with a program of works from the Romantic ...
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07/09/2021
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Nikolaj Znaider returns to the 2021 Enescu Festival to replace violinist Joshua Bell
Violinist Joshua Bell has been forced to cancel his participation in the George Enescu International Festival concert with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields scheduled for September 7, due to medical reasons.
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06/09/2021
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DAILY AGENDA – SEPTEMBER 4
Symphony No. 3, the ‘Everest’ of George Enescu’s creation, performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra London One of George Enescu’s most impressive works, his Symphony No. 3, will be performed today at the Grand Palace Hall by the famous British orchestra Philharmonia London, conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali. It is a ...
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04/09/2021
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Yvonna
25 Memorable Things about the 25th Edition of the Most Important International Cultural Event Organized ...
Honoring its tradition of bringing the biggest names in world classical music to Bucharest and of keeping Romania anchored in the international cultural circuits, the 2021 Enescu Festival promises an unforgettable experience for both audiences and artists. From everything that makes this Festival special, we have selected below 25 memorable ...
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27/08/2021
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Petre Alexandra
2021 George Enescu International Festival Begins
The 25th edition of the George Enescu International Festival starts Saturday, August 28, despite the uncertainty and complications caused by the pandemic, as a declaration of confidence that together, as a society, we can write a History Made with Love, just as the Festival’s history was built out of love ...
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27/08/2021
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Great Actors Join Classical Music as Narrators’ Voice: Robert Powell, Maia Morgenstern, and Vlad Ivanov ...
Three great actors – Robert Powell, Maia Morgenstern, and Vlad Ivanov – will take to the George Enescu International Festival stage for the first time in 2021, as part of the dialogue between the arts that the Festival promotes. Vlad Ivanov will play two roles. In the concert given by ...
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26/08/2021
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