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