George Enescu festival at start

The 22nd edition of Enescu Festival opened last night with No 1 Romanian Rhapsody by George Enescu, performed by the Romanian Youth Orchestra, conducted by Kristjan Jarvi. Violinist Sarah Chang is joining the orchestra to perform The Violin Concert by Jean Sibelius, whose 150th anniversary of his birth is celebrated this year.

2015-08-31 08:35:15

The event, organised by the Arts House Cultural Centre and the Bucharest District 3 City Hall, started August 30 with the performance of Enescu's Rhapsody No. 1 in A major; Jan Sibelius' Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 and Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, by the Romanian Youth Orchestra under the baton of director Kristjan Jarvi.

About 2,500 foreign artists and 500 Romanian musicians will attend the 2015 edition of Enescu Festival, the internationally renowned festival, the biggest one organized by Romania. This year's edition will run August 30-September 20 and will host 58 hall concerts and many other open-air events.

Already on the schedule are:

Israel Philharmonic (August 31 and September 1), conductor: Zubin Mehta
Romanian National Radio Orchestra & Radio Academic Choir (September 2), conductor: Cornelius Meister
Berliner Philharmoniker (September 3), conductor: Sir Simon Rattle
Staatskapelle Dresden (September 4 and 5), conductor: Christian Thielemann
San Francisco Symphony (September 6 and 7), conductor: Michael Thilson Thomas
London Symphony Orchestra (September 8 and 9), conductor: Ion Marin
Sankt Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (September 10 and 11), conductor: Yuri Temirkanov
KonzertHausOrchester Berlin (September 11), conductor: Horia Andreescu
Orchestre de Chambre de Paris (September 11), conductor: Sir Roger Norrington
Bucharest Chamber Orchestra (September 12), conductor: Madalin Voicu
Bayerische Staatsoper (September 12 and 13), conductor: Constantinos Cariydis and Sebastian Weigle
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (September 12 and 13), conductor: Laurence Cummings and Ivor Bolton
Choir and Orchestra of the ′George Enescu′ Philharmonic (September 14), conductor: Leo Hussain
Monte Carlo Philharmonic (September 15 and 16), conductor: Gianluigi Gelmetti and Cristian Mandeal
Wiener Philharmoniker (September 15 and 16), conductor: Semyon Bychkov
MozarteumOrkester Salzburg (September 17), conductor: Thomas Dausgaard
Royal Liverpool Symphony Orchestra (September 17 and 18), conductor: Vasily Petrenko
Basel Chamber Orchestra (September 18), conductor: Heinz Holliger
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam (September 19 and 20), conductor: Andris Nelsons.

More on the performers and schedule here: http://festivalenescu.ro/en/events/2015-festival/