This album presents all of George Enescu's piano works for the first time together, including pieces he finished and signed, some of which he spent decades fine-tuning.
Performer Biography
Raluca Stirbat is also a musicologist, holding a doctorate on 'The Piano Works of George Enescu' and is the founder and president of the International George Enescu Society in Vienna.
Composer's Artistic Vision
George Enescu's compositions were often overshadowed by his spectacular virtuoso career, a struggle he faced throughout his life.
Composer Biography
George Enescu, born in 1881 in the small Moldavian village of Liveni, was the eighth child of Maria and Costache, and the first to survive.
Composer Biography
As a child prodigy, George Enescu was called 'the new Mozart' by critics after his debut as a violinist in the Vienna Musikverein.
Composer Biography
George Enescu was not only a legendary violinist but also a fantastic pianist, admired and even envied by his colleagues, including Parisian critics who called him and Debussy 'les pianistes les plus subtiles' of their day.
Performer Biography
Raluca Stirbat, the pianist on this album, began piano lessons at age six and debuted as a concert pianist at age ten with Haydn's Piano Concerto in D major.
