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