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