George Enescu: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, Op. 9 | Vienna Philharmonic & Jakub Hrůša

George Enescu: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, Op. 9 | Vienna Philharmonic & Jakub Hrůša | George Enescu Festival | 11.09.2023 | Bucharest Palace Hall
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Among Enescu's larger works are three orchestral suites, whose composition spans his entire creative career: the first dating from 1901-1902, the second from 1915, the last from 1938.
The First Suite, in C, was introduced under its composer's direction at a concert of the Bucharest Philharmonic Society (of which he was later to become director) on February 23, 1903. On the program as well were the first performances of his two Romanian Rhapsodies, whose more obvious populist style attracted most of the attention.
Most striking in the Suite in C are the first two movements which, following the composer's practice in his own later appearances as a conductor, are heard as an entity to begin this program. The opening movement is scored for strings (violins, mainly), playing in unison a broad melody of decidedly Eastern European cast, with the timpani entering ominously in a long crescendo, leading into the second movement, a slow, lushly textured minuet based on a sad, descending three-note phrase.
(Herbert Glass)

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George Enescu este poate cel mai important compozitor al muzicii noastre cu inflexiuni modilatorii ce prezinta modurile populare romanesti intr-o forma de o maniera neo-clasica dar in acelasi timp de o maniera unica romaneasca stilizata.