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Notes
In December 2017 soprano Rodica Vica made the world premiere recording of George Enescu’s Ghosts (Strigoii) alongside the Rundfunk- Sinfonieorchester Berlin led by conductor Gabriel Bebe?elea. Nobody knew anything about George Enescu’s oratorium Strigoii. The script, lost together with other items in the turmoil of the First World War, was purchased back by the Director of the Enescu Museum. To make it easier to understand how Strigoii was created, it was necessary to undertake the decipherment and reconstruction of the manuscript. When Enescu approached Strigoii in 1916, it was the result of an older admiration for the poet Mihai Eminescu that was to last until the end of the composer’s life. Whilst Enescu evinces some similarities to German Romanticism in his poem (Novalis or Tieck), in Strigoii Enescu also shows stylistic affinities to some contemporaries such as Alexander von Zemlinsky or the young Alban Berg.
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Reviews
"... If you're already an Enescu fan, you needn't hesitate."
Richard Bratby – Gramophone magazine – November 2018
Performance **** Recording *****
“… Thanks to Romanian musicians Cornel Taranu and Sabin Pautza who have reconstructed Strigoii and clothed it in suitably idiomatic instrumentation, as well as to the fine vocal and orchestral contributions on this recording, we can now appreciate a fascinating score whose most striking feature is the extensive declamatory speaking role for the narrator… Another intriguing discovery is the early unpublished Pastorale fantasie for small orchestra … an attractive and imaginative work, and it is played here with great warmth and sensitivity.”
Erik Levi – BBC Music magazine – Christmas 2018
**** (Recommended Disc) Technique: 4/5
Didier Van Moere - Diapson magazine (France) - December 2018
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