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George Enescu (1881 - 1955)

Part Five

Friday 6 May 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)

Repeated: Friday 13 May 2005 0:00-1:00 (Radio 3)

5/5. Final Years: Donald Macleod looks at Romanian composer George Enescu's final works. Moving to a self-imposed exile in Paris after the Second World War, his life ended there, in poverty, in 1955.

Duration:

1 hour

Playlist

Ouverture de Concerts sur des Thèmes populaires roumain
Philharmonia Moldova/ Alexandru Lascae (cond)
Ottavo OTR C69450 tr 5

Piano Quartet no. 2
The Solomon Ensemble
Naxos 8.557159 tr 4-6

Chamber symphony
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne/ Lawrence Foster (cond)
Claves CD 50-8803 tr 1-4




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