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