- EDITOR’S CHOICE
- 2019 · Duo Brüggen-Plank
Composer · 1881 - 1955
George Enescu
- John M. Kuypers, University of Illinois Orchestra, George Enescu
- All-State Philharmonic Orchestra, Darrell Umhoefer, Soo Han
- Nicolae Moldoveanu, Luiza Borac, Romanian National Radio Orchestra Bucharest
- César Franck, Ludwig van Beethoven, Guillaume Lekeu, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Béla Bartók, Karol Szymanowski, Yehudi Menuhin, Felix Mendelssohn, Hephzibah Menuhin, George Enescu, Robert Schumann, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Franz Schubert, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Sir Edward Elgar, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms
- Mattia Ometto, Pavel Gintov, Ekaterina Litvintseva, Saskia Giorgini, Vincenzo Maltempo, Nare Karoyan, Mark Viner, 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.