Les Dissonances

GIUSEPPE PENNISI
reports from Bucharest

Amongst the seventy concerts over twenty-two days offered by the 2015 Enescu Festival, I selected two by the French group Les Dissonances — a very special ensemble, without either a director or a conductor — just a group of soloists who love to play together. The concerts took place (as did several others) in the Ateneul Român, a lovely eight-hundred seat concert hall built in 1888 with two rows of boxes and a perfect acoustic. It is one of the few Bucharest buildings which survived various wars and revolutions over the last one hundred and twenty years. I was told that special protections were built during World War II as well as during the 1999 upheaval...

ROMANIA

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

JOHANNES BRAHMS

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

ALFRED SCHNITTKE

GEORGE ENESCU

ZUBIN MEHTA

VLADIMIR JUROWSKI