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