With this disc of the rarely heard piano suites of George Enescu, Luiza Borac easily revitalizes interest in the composer and his music. Enescu's piano music is some of his least known (not that his orchestral music is that well-known either), so it's probably safe to say that almost anyone listening to the disc will be hearing it for the first time. And he or she should be very well pleased with it, especially if they are fans of late-Romantic/early Modern French music. The first suite, "Dans le style ancien," was ...
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With this disc of the rarely heard piano suites of George Enescu, Luiza Borac easily revitalizes interest in the composer and his music. Enescu's piano music is some of his least known (not that his orchestral music is that well-known either), so it's probably safe to say that almost anyone listening to the disc will be hearing it for the first time. And he or she should be very well pleased with it, especially if they are fans of late-Romantic/early Modern French music. The first suite, "Dans le style ancien," was completed in 1897, when Enescu was just a teenager. He had studied in Vienna and then went to Paris to enroll at the Conservatory. The "style ancien" is Baroque, particularly German Baroque, with its Fugue often compared to the music of Bach and Buxtehude in its construction. According to Borac's notes, Enescu was meticulous about his dynamic and pedal markings, and he put only one pedal mark in the entire first suite. Borac does use the pedal, but it sounds as if her intent is to imitate an...
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