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...Romanian composer George Enescu’s Oedipe (1936) makes for a grim season-opener at the Komische Oper....
...read one banner, marking a sharp tonal contrast to the concert hall performance by a pan-EU orchestra of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy and George Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No 1....
...Oedipe, the only opera by Romanian composer George Enescu, has only slowly made headway towards becoming a repertory piece....
...George Enescu’s “Prelude 1 for Orchestral Suite” evoked optimism and doubt with a lovely tune, rippling piano arpeggios and ebb-and-flow improv....
...That leaves George Enescu’s Oedipe, premiered in 1936, as the main operatic setting of the myth....
...Seven arias, sonatas and suites by the late Romanian composer George Enescu are here given a downtown New York make-over by fellow countryman and pianist Lucian Ban and bassist John Hébert....
...Genre-bending and full of gypsy devilry, Kopatchinskaya played a solo piece by George Enescu and Jorge Sanchez Chiong’s Crin, in which her voice and violin struck sparks off each other....
...Any resentment that he abandoned his homeland vanished after his death in 1955: three years later the George Enescu International Festival was established....
...The Romanian pianist Luiza Borac is not a household name and neither is that of the composer whose work she has interpreted with such brilliance, her compatriot George Enescu....
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