The Enescu Project was launched in 2016, inspired by George Enescu's Octet for strings in C major, Op. 7, which the album's creator considers a masterpiece.
Recording & Production
This recording of The Enescu Project faithfully reproduces the original concert format, including spoken texts, with a QR code in the booklet linking music and speech.
Compositional Technique
George Enescu's Octet for strings, composed at age nineteen, integrates its four movements into a gigantic sonata form, combining folk modal writing with late 19th-century chromaticism.
Composition History
Eugène Ysaÿe, a legendary Belgian violinist and composer, dedicated his Sonata No. 3 in D minor 'Ballade', Op. 27, to George Enescu.
Composer Biography
George Enescu, a Romanian violinist and conductor, was also a significant composer of 20th-century music, having studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Enescu's musical output, though varied and abundant, is still largely unfamiliar, and like Bartók's and Janáček's music, it is deeply rooted in traditional folk music of his country.
Instruments
Nicolas Dautricourt, the violinist on this album, plays a magnificent Antonio Stradivari violin from 1713, known as the 'Château Pape-Clément'.
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