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Four of the six Radio Romania musical ensembles will perform on the stages of the 26th edition of the George Enescu International Festival.
The National Radio Orchestra, the Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Academic Radio Choir and the Radio Children's Choir will be seen during eight concerts as part of the George Enescu International Festival at Sala Palatului, the Romanian Athenaeum, Sala Radio and the Odeon Theatre House, agerpres reports.
On September 17 at Sala Palatului, in the "Great Orchestras of the World" series, the National Radio Orchestra will be conducted by Tan Dun, accompanied by Xavier de Maistre (harp) as soloist and Carmen Livia Vidu as a multimedia director, who will illustrate the evening's repertoire with video projections. The audience will listen to the Romanian premiere of a work composed by conductor Tan Dun himself titled " Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women " and the famous suite "Pictures at Exhibition" by Musorgsky orchestarted by Ravel.
Also on September 17, the Radio Chamber Orchestra will participate in the new section of the festival: "ConcertS for Families and Children." Called "Parizade and the Singing Tree," the already sold-out concert by the Radio Chamber Orchestra will be conducted by Cristian Spataru. The public will listen to works by Georges Bizet ("Jeux d'Enfants Suite"), Joseph Haydn ("Toy Symphony") and Karim Al-Zand ("Parizade and the Singing Tree").
The second meeting with the Radio Chamber Orchestra will take place in the "Midnight Concerts" series at the Romanian Athenaeum. On September 23, the ensemble will perform together with the famous Argentinian musician Jose Cura (tenor, conductor, director, scenographer) - who will be on stage as soloist, conductor and composer.
The Academic Radio Choir - coached by conductor Ciprian Tutu - will give four concerts. The Radio Romania ensemble will perform symphonic poem "Isis" by George Enescu, in two different events: on September 1, at Sala Palatului, together with the Orchestra of the Capitole Theater of Toulouse and under the baton of the conductor Christian Badea and on September 11, at the Romanian Athenaeum, alongside the Wurth Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Anu Tali.
On September 20, at Sala Palatului, under the baton of Maxime Pascal, the Parisian chamber ensemble called Le Balcon will take the stage together with the Bucharest National Opera Orchestra and Choir and the Academic Radio Choir, to perform the opera " Saint Francis of Assisi" by Olivier Messiaen, an absolute first performance in Romania.
The last appearance of the Academic Radio Choir will be on September 24, at sala Palatului in a concert that concludes this edition of the festival, an event that will be joined by the Radio Children's Choir, coached by conductor Razvan Rados. The two Radio Romania ensembles will perform together with one of the world's most valuable orchestras: the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam. Under the baton of Klaus Makela, the two choirs will perform the longest symphony in the standard repertoire: "Symphony No. 3" by Gustav Mahler, which also closed the previous season at Sala Radio.
