- EDITOR’S CHOICE
- 2019 · Duo Brüggen-Plank
Composer · 1881 - 1955
George Enescu
- John M. Kuypers, University of Illinois Orchestra, George Enescu
- Soo Han, All-State Philharmonic Orchestra, Darrell Umhoefer
- Luiza Borac, Romanian National Radio Orchestra Bucharest, Nicolae Moldoveanu
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Béla Bartók, Karol Szymanowski, Yehudi Menuhin, Felix Mendelssohn, Hephzibah Menuhin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Guillaume Lekeu, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Enescu, Robert Schumann, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Sir Edward Elgar, César Franck, Franz Schubert
- Ekaterina Litvintseva, Pavel Gintov, Mark Viner, Saskia Giorgini, Vincenzo Maltempo, Mattia Ometto, Nare Karoyan, Tobias Borsboom, Dimitri Tchesnokov
Biography
George Enescu (1881-1955) was a gifted musician who was as proficient a composer and pianist as he was a great violinist. The stylistically varied nature of his compositions reflects his cosmopolitan life, spent primarily in Romania and France. His early music, including the popular Romanian Rhapsodies, use folk music, while his opera Oedipe features motivic development that stems from the influence of Austro-Germanic composers. Enescu's violin and cello sonatas and the string quartets combine elements of both, emphasizing the interplay of melodic lines, while his symphonies and piano music often have neo-classical and Impressionistic facets to them.