Extractions: Fugue from Violin Sonata No.1 in G minor BWV 1001 and Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Op. 61. Format: Compact Disc Record Label: Biddulph Catalog Number: LAB 108. Year Released/Recorded: Total Playing Time: Comments: George Murnu said: Acknowledgements: Thank you to the following for submitting this recording and for your comments: Date First Submitted: Purchasing: Suggested Purchasing Sources About This Site Biography, Portraits and Literature Works by BWV Number Works by Category Works by Key Works by Title Works by Year The Cantatas Project Recordings by Title Recordings by Conductor or Main Performer Recordings by Instrument Recordings by BWV Number Recordings by Record Label Recordings Submitted Recently Web Sites with Bach Information Web Sites with Bach MIDI Files Featured Recordings Suggested Purchasing Sources
Extractions: C Lété C Markevitch Strad., A. Remarks: On his Strad Markevitch says: 'I performed all the Bach suites on it in Carnegie Hall. However, I sold it in 1972. It was painful to do because I would have liked to have kept it in the family, but I wasn't happy with it. I don't like Strads for the simple reason that they always have a "Strad" sound. I prefer to create my own sound. I play a French cello now, a Lété from 1839, a docile instrument that sounds well wherever I play. Teachers:
Polishing The Jewel: The Genius Of George Enescu not lend easily to reductive nationalist symbolism Ernst von Dohnányi andGeorge enescu. As CD reissues of his violin playing have made clear, http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/99_2000season/2000_02_04/le
Romanias Bright Emblem his Quintet at seventeen he had the premiere of his Romanian Poem and hisSonata in D major for Piano and Violin. george enescus ascent was prodigious. http://www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/99_2000season/2000_02_04/ma
Extractions: Leon Botstein, Musical Director At age four he started violin lessons, at seven he was accepted into the Vienna Conservatory, which he graduated cum laude, at eleven he gave concerts in the Austrian capital, at thirteen he had a first performance of the Sonata in A minor for Piano and Violin and of his Quintet at seventeen he had the premiere of his Romanian Poem and his Sonata in D major for Piano and Violin. Unlike his friend Bartok, Enescu does not borrow directly from the folkloric raw material. Instead, he filters the hybrid elements, and, going deeper and stylizing, strives for a new musical vocabulary, for a personal compositional syntax within modern esthetics. His music becomes an expressive synthesis between East and West, a unique fusion of inspiration and arduous experimentation, of nostalgic, pastoral lyricism and bracing serenity. At twenty-four, Enescu would define himself first as a symphonic composer and then as a virtuoso player. This order of preference would be challenged, again and again, as his fame grew. It would be left to posterity to confirm and legitimize his place as a composer. His virtuosity as a violin and piano player, ever more engaged in triumphant tours with some of the greatest performers of the times, his prodigious memory (he knew all of Wagner’s work by heart), the grace with which he could conjure up each musical note, as if recovered then and there out of nothingness–all this stunted his compositional projects. It only delayed the reception of his compositions, which amply deserved the recognition conferred upon him, among others, by his illustrious student, Yehudi Menuhin, who called him "the most complex musician of our century."
Extractions: melissa@uiuc.edu CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Fifty years after Romanian composer George Enescu's last residency at the University of Illinois, the campus is celebrating the anniversary with a three-day symposium Oct. 20-22. "Enescu has been a towering figure of the 20th century as a composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and pedagogue," said UI violin professor and event coordinator Sherban Lupu. "Together with Bartok, Szymanowsky, Janacek and Stravinsky, he engineered the rebirth of the East European national schools, thus creating the bridge linking the romantic era to the modern and contemporary language of music." From 1948 through 1950, Enescu was a regular visitor to the UI campus. During his extended visits, he gave master classes in violin, piano and chamber music, and performed and conducted.
International "George Enescu": Violin Competition International george enescu Violin Competition Ysaye Balad Sonata dedicatedto enescu enescu - Sonata for violin and piano no.2 op.6 Semifinal http://www.festivalenescu.ro/eng/vioara.html
Festivalul International "George Enescu": Alexandru TOMESCU playing the violin at the age of 6 and was accepted to george enescu Music 1999 First Prize george enescu International Competition - Romania http://www.festivalenescu.ro/rom/artisti/tomescu.html
Extractions: The 2004 concert tours abroad of the National Radio Orchestra have included performances in Brussels (Salle Flagey), in Den Haag (Dr. Anton Philippszaal), in Bratislava (Radio Concert Hall) and in Vienna (Wiener Konzerthaus) where Mr. Tomescu has performed the Mendelssohn and the Bruch concertos. Alexandru Tomescu - Curriculum vitae Contact address: Str. Ioan Bianu 39, Sect. 1, of. 12, Bucharest 011.091, Romania
Extractions: (Helios) The Romanian George Enescu was something of an all-round musical genius. Not only an excellent composer, he was also a first-rate violinist and conductor, and an accomplished pianist and cellist with a formidable musical memory. The three works on this excellent CD span almost 30 years of his career, but each one is as fascinating as the other in its own way, and Adelina Oprean and her brother team up brilliantly to meet each of their challenges. Sonata no.2 is a stunning early work, heavily tinged with Brahmsian sonorities and rhythms. Oprean captures the mood of the sinuous opening theme of the first movement and the wistful understatement of the Tranquillo slow movement beautifully, as well as playing the more impassioned sections with great command and feeling, before launching deftly into the spirited dance-like finale.
Radio Romania International george enescu, A GREAT ARTISTIC PERSONALITY OF THE 20TH CENTURY. Thousands ofpages have been written, enescu was also a great violin player. http://www.rri.ro/index.php?lmb=4&art=6294
Radio Romania International The george enescu International Contest (for violin, piano and canto) was nolonger held during the Communist regime, but resumed after 1990. http://www.rri.ro/index.php?lmb=4&art=5994
CDE 84469 george enescu. Sonata No.2 for Violin and Piano in F minor Op. 6 Sonata No.3 forViolin and Piano Op. 25 Rumanian Rhapsody No.1 in A Op. 11 arr. http://www.meridian-records.co.uk/newreleases/469text.htm
Extractions: Julian Jacobson - piano "Susanne Stanzeleit is a powerful player with terrific technique..." THE HERALD "Opening his Wigmore Hall recital with a performance of Mozart's Sonata K.576 that combined delicacy of touch with tensile strength in rhythm and structural outline, Julian Jacobson went on to cover a wide stylistic field with equal vigour. " DAILY TELEGRAPH UK GEORGE ENESCU (1881-1955) George Enescu was born on 19 August 1881 in Liveni-Virnov, Northern Rumania, the twelfth and only surviving child. His father, a country estate administrator, sang and conducted a local choir, and his mother, Maria, played the piano and guitar. Throughout his life, he retained a remarkable memory, being able to play back on violin or piano any music he had heard once, however long the gap in time. He always rehearsed and performed from memory both as conductor and violinist. In 1888 aged of 7, he entered the Vienna Conservatoire where he studied violin, piano, composition, harmony, chamber music and music history, quite a curriculum even for a mature student. At the age of 17 he was probably the most gifted all-round musician to have emerged since Mozart, a view supported by the cellist Pablo Casals. A concert of his own works in Paris in 1897 had further enhanced his reputation. After making his conducting debut in Bucharest in 1898 he lived for a while in Berlin where he formed his own piano trio and string quartet. From 1906 until the outbreak of the First World War, he was based in Paris but spent much time in Bucharest and on tour in Europe as a solo violinist and conductor, while composing prolifically, particularly large-scale orchestral pieces and a mass of instrumental music.
Carl Flesch By José Sánchez-Penzo Violin Virtuoso and Pedagogue. Carl Flesch s achievements as a performing enescu, george violin (1881 - 1955) 2; Feuermann, Emanuel - cello (1902 http://www.carl-flesch.de/cflesch_hom.html
Extractions: Carl F. Flesch Carl Flesch Violin Virtuoso and Pedagogue "Carl Flesch's achievements as a performing virtuoso were as impressive as his powers as a teacher. Out of his vast repertoire encompassing practically all styles - from Baroque to twentieth century - his performances of concerti by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms stood out with an inimitable authority that made them uniquely inspiring" Szymon Goldberg Hungary. He is given the name Károly Married to Bertha Josephus-Jitta Children: Johanna, Friedrich, Carl Adopted German nationality in 1930 retaining the Hungarian Is deprived of the German nationality in 1935 Died in November 15, 1944 in Lucerne, Switzerland Carl Flesch with his wife Bertha Josephus-Jitta
Sleeve Notes - Enescu: Violin Sonatas george enescu (18811955). Violin Sonatas THE ROMANIAN COMPOSER georgeenescu (1881-1955) is one of the neglected giants of modern music. http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/55103-N.asp
Extractions: GEORGE ENESCU (1881-1955) Excerpts from the sleeve notes THE ROMANIAN COMPOSER George Enescu (1881-1955) is one of the neglected giants of modern music. His magnificent series of late chamber works, which starts with his Third Violin Sonata, includes pieces of striking originality, intricate beauty and expressive power which can be ranked with the finest chamber music of Ravel, Janácek or Bartók. Outside Romania, however, most of Enescus music is unknown, and the only pieces played at all frequently in the concert hall are his two early and far from typical Romanian Rhapsodies. Judging Enescu by those two pieces alone is rather like judging Ravel on the basis of Bolero and nothing else. Enescu was born to a fairly prosperous middle- or lower-middle-class family in the north-eastern corner of Romania, close to the Ukrainian border. He showed a precocious talent for both violin-playing and composition, and at the age of seven he entered the Vienna Conservatoire. There he encountered Brahms, and developed what was to be a life-long devotion to his music. In 1895 Enescu moved to the Paris Conservatoire, where his teachers included Massenet and Fauré, and his friends and fellow-students included Ravel and Alfred Cortot. Even before he left the Conservatoire in 1899, he had attracted public acclaim in Romania as a composer; up until the first world war, he was based mainly in Paris, but spent several months each year in his native land, where he was appointed court musician to the Romanian royal family. Major works of this period included his first symphony (1905); his second and third symphonies were completed in Romania during the war.
Observatorul He was also a noted violin teacher. Yehudi Menuhin, Christian Ferras, Upon hisdeath in 1955, george enescu was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery http://www.observatorul.com/articles_main.asp?action=articleviewdetail&ID=2172
Extractions: [61'41"] full-price by Ong Yong Hui It is sad to say that the great violinist Eugene Ysaÿe is mostly forgotten today; people acquainted with violin music speak of Wieniawksi and Vieuxtemps and their works, yet Ysaÿe is unjustly neglected. Being the student of these two virtuoso violinist-composers, he certainly should be mentioned in the same breath! Ysaÿe had one of the most powerful violin sounds ever known and was regarded as one of the greatest violinists in his day. He garnered respect from everyone, and it is common knowledge that César Franck's popular Sonata, Chausson's Poeme , the String Quartets of Debussy, d'Indy and Saint-Saëns are all dedicated to him.
Enescu Au Soir george enescu (or georges Enesco,18811955), the Romanian composer, He startedto play the violin at the age of four and to compose one year later; http://www.mcnaughtan.com/pages/Publications/4-8_Trumpets/30155/30155.html
Extractions: George Enescu (or Georges Enesco,1881-1955), the Romanian composer, violinist, conductor and teacher, divided his time between Paris and his native country. He started to play the violin at the age of four and to compose one year later; from 1888 to 1894 he studied at the conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. He then went to Paris, initially to continue his studies at the Conservatoire; he was already a mature performer, however, and was soon associating with leading musicians there, composing and starting to conduct. In 1898 his opus 1, the Poème roumain Oedipe , written between 1921 and 1931 and first performed at the Paris Opera in 1936.
Historical Recordings george enescu, conductor Recorded 1933 1938, 1, $7.99 Dvorak ViolinCto(recorded 1938) NYPhil,Barbirolli/Paris Conserv./enescu, 1, $7.99 http://www.smusic.com/naxos/history1b.htm
Tours Of Romania His violin pupils include Grumiaux, Ferras, Gitlis and Menuhin. george enescu isone of the neglected giants of modern music. Prodigiously gifted, he became http://www.romaniatravelcentre.co.uk/tours/tours-in-romania.htm
Extractions: Bukovina is a Romanian region situated in the northern part of Moldavia. This part of Romania is especially beautiful, with a clean unspoiled nature, and a unique landscape. This is the land where the painted monasteries which now hold a place of pride among world cultural sites were built. They all lie in the region close to the town of Suceava, in the northern part of the country. The monasteries were built during the 15th-16th centuries at a time marked by the personalities of the Moldavian prince Stephen the Great (1457-1504), and of his son, Petru Rares Stephen the Great was an illustrious army commander, a defender of christendom and a prolific promoter of culture. They say that Stephen the Great ruled for 47 years, that he fought 47 defence battles, mainly against the Turks, but also against the Tartars, the Kossaks, the Poles and the Magyars, and that he erected about the same number (44) of churches and monasteries. In his time, monasteries were not decorated with exterior polychromous frescoes, but with colourful enameled ceramics placed around the steeples and below the cornices. It was only by the end of the 15th century, and then all along the 16th century, mainly during Petru Rares ' time, that exterior mural paintings flourished in Moldavia. Nevertheless
New Music, Old Instruments george enescu. Octet; Piano Quintet. Gidon Kremer, violin; Kremerata BalticaNonesuch, $16.99. Gidon Kremer s advocacy for some of the byways of music http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/30/PK73872.DTL
