New music in Bucharest continued.
Programme:
Fred Popovici: Concerto No 2 for violin and orchestra
(soloist Marius Lucraru, violin)
Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea: Rite for enchanting the air (flutes
and orchestra)
(soloist Pierre-Yves Arbaud (flutes)
Arne Mellnas: Labyrinthos (saxophone and orchestra)
(soloist Jorgen Pettersson, saxophone)
Doina Rotaru: Symphony No. 3
'Apart from the value of the content of the programme we
listened to, besides the well deserved applause for the
soloists and for the National Radio Orchestra, we must
appreciate especially the conducting performance of the
English Maestro Alan Tongue. Wisdom, calm and discipline,
power of communication through an economical but effective
gestuality are only a few of the qualities of this musician,
due to whom the new works, both for him and the orchestra,
were successfully presented in such discouraging short
time.'
George Balint, 24 May 2002, Muzica
L to R. Arne Mellnas, Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea, Alan Tongue
Livia's work from this performance has appeared on YouTube, at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0wcb9SKvbg and on the US top twenty Toccata Classics CD TOCC 0668.
Fred Popovici's work is available on the double CD 'Romanian Music Today 2', RO1AF145011340