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