Bucharest's George Enescu Philharmonic announces star-studded 2024-2025 season
Vasily Petrenko, Charles Dutoit, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Renaud Capuçon, Daniel Hope, Julian Rachlin, and Vadim Repin are among the artists invited to perform at the George Enescu Philharmonic in the 2024-2025 season, the Bucharest…
Simona Fodor · Journalist
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Vasily Petrenko, Charles Dutoit, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Renaud Capuçon, Daniel Hope, Julian Rachlin, and Vadim Repin are among the artists invited to perform at the George Enescu Philharmonic in the 2024-2025 season, the Bucharest institution announced.
The lineup of international artists – that the Bucharest public is more accustomed to listening to every two years at the George Enescu Festival – is part of the Philharmonic's efforts "to build an international profile."
The Philharmonic will bring 95 Romanian and foreign soloists and conductors to Bucharest in its upcoming season, and 57 of them will be included in its artistic programming for the first time, it said.
"With the 2024-2025 season, the George Enescu Philharmonic takes the most ambitious step yet towards building an international profile. We want to become the place where Romanian music lovers can listen to both famous foreign artists and the best Romanian artists throughout the year. […] We aim to regain the status of the interwar period, when the Romanian Athenaeum was the place where the great musicians of the time performed, alongside the George Enescu Philharmonic," Marin Cazacu, director of the George Enescu Philharmonic, explained.
The program: premieres, opera in concert, works by Enescu
The 2024-2025 season is dedicated to Romanian musician George Enescu, with several works he composed to be performed, the Philharmonic announced.
Overall, the program, described as "the most ambitious and rich so far," covers representative works from a variety of periods, ranging from Baroque to contemporary music, classical music 'hits' by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky or Beethoven, but also novel works.
Johann Sebastian Bach's masterpiece of sacred music Matthäus-Passion is scheduled in the period preceding the Easter holidays, with conductor Gabriel Bebeşelea scheduled to lead the orchestra in 2025 concerts that also mark 340 years since the composer's birth.
At the same time, two operas in concert will be performed at the Athenaeum, namely Francis Poulenc's La Voix Humaine, and Maurice Ravel's L'heure espagnole. Arvo Pärt's Silouan's Song, Olga Viktorova's Quinlong Azure Dragon, Toru Takemitsu's Three Film Scores, Dominique Probst's Overture of the Nuées cycle, and Kristjan Järvi's Aurora
