Enescu: Complete Works for Piano Solo Raluca Stirbat

• George Enescu (1881-1955): Suite op. 3 Nr. 1 “dans le style ancien” g-Moll, G minor (1897):
• 1I. Prelude: Grave04:15
• 2II. Fugue: Allegro moderato04:05
• 3III. Adagio06:10
• 4IV. Finale: Presto03:14
• Prélude et Scherzo fis-Moll, F sharp minor (1896):
• 5Prelude03:59
• 6Scherzo05:58
• 7Barcarolle in B-Flat Major05:04
• 8La Fileuse in D Major04:45
• 9Impromptu in A-Flat Major04:30
• 10Regrets in G-Flat Major03:53
• 11Impromptu in C Major05:48
• Prélude et Fugue C Dur, C major (1903):
• 12Prelude04:38
• 13Fugue05:22
• Suite op. 10 Nr. 2 “Des cloches sonores” D-Dur, D major (1903):
• 14I. Toccata: Majestueusement, mais pas trop lent04:19
• 15II. Sarabande: Noblement06:44
• 16III. Pavane: Lentement berce05:16
• 17IV. Bouree: Vivement06:19
• Nocturne Des-Dur, D flat major (1907):
• 18Nocturne in D-Flat Major17:11
• Pièces Impromptues op. 18 (1913/16):
• 19I. Melodie: Andantino02:49
• 20II. Voix de la steppe: Allegro moderato03:30
• 21III. Mazurk melancolique: Moderato un poco allegretto05:49
• 22IV. Burlesque: Vivace ma non troppo05:17
• 23V. Appassionato: Con slancio, ma ben sostenuto03:53
• 24VI. Choral: Moderato, non troppo lento06:38
• 25VII. Carillon nocturne: L'istesso tempo (Moderato, non troppo lento)05:53
• Sonatensatz fis-Moll, F sharp minor – Moderato (1912):
• 26Piano Sonata in F-Sharp Minor16:41
• Pièce sur le nom de Fauré (1922):
• 27Piece sur le nom de Faure01:50
• Sonate op. 24 Nr. 1 fis-Moll, F sharp minor (1924):
• 28I. Allegro molto moderato e grave11:43
• 29II. Presto vivace05:03
• 30III. Andante molto espressivo07:26
• Sonate op. 24 Nr. 3 D-Dur, D major (1935):
• 31I. Vivace con brio05:46
• 32II. Andantino cantabile09:03
• 33III. Allegro con spirito08:28
• Total Runtime03:21:19

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George Enescu wurde so bekannt als Violinvirtuose und -Pädagoge, dass sein gesamtes kompositorisches Schaffen lange kaum wahrgenommen wurde. Dies hat sich zum Glück grundlegend geändert. Dennoch gibt es immer noch Bereiche seines OEuvres, die kaum bekannt sind. Dazu zählt etwa die Klaviermusik Enescus, die hier auf immerhin 3 Alben erstmals als Komplettedition vorgelegt wird.

Raluca Stirbat hat insgesamt vier Weltersteinspielungen und drei Ersteinspielungen für CD aufgetan und liefert eine grandiose Performance ab, die hoffentlich dazu beitragen wird, dass auch Enescus Klaviermusik endlich ein großes Publikum findet.

Raluca Stirbat, Klavier

Raluca Stirbat
The young pianist Raluca Stirbat was born in the north-eastern Romanian city of Iaşi and today ranks not only among the most eminent representatives of the young Romanian piano generation, but can already look back on major international successes. With her brilliant technique and an exceptionally rich palette of tone colours, which she can combine in masterly manner, she has acquired high artistic significance. Raluca Stirbat terms the core of her interpretations the elaboration of the dramaturgic structure hidden in the work. Endowed with great temperament, exceptional assuredness of style and technical bravour, she performs interpretations full of energy and natural expressiveness.

At the age of six, she started piano lessons at the music grammar school of her home town and at ten she already held her debut as a concert pianist with Joseph Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D major. From this moment on, Raluca Stirbat was considered a child prodigy and performed with all the most important orchestras in Romania (including ‘George Enescu’ Philharmonia and Radio Symphony Orchestra) and abroad. After spending a year of studies at the ‘George Enescu’ Music Academy in Iaşi, in 1991 she went to the Music University in Vienna to study under Prof. Jürg von Vintschger and where she graduated with a Magister Artium in piano performance. Soon the doors of major and important concert halls opened (Vienna Konzerthaus, Vienna Musikverein, Stefanie Hall in Graz and the Mozarteum Salzburg). Scholarships and sponsorship, including from the Beethovengesellschaft, the Martha Sobotka-Janaczek Foundation and the Rotary Club (Vienna), the Nippon Foundation (Tokyo) and the Madeleine Blaireville Foundation (Switzerland) have supported her talent on its artistic course. In addition, Raluca Stirbat has attended master classes held by such renowned artists as Murray Perahia, Hans Leygraf, Lory Wallfisch, Marek Drewnowski and Aquiles Delle Vigne. She has received important inspiration from Avedis Kouyoumdjian, Johannes Meissl, Teresa and Rudolf Leopold (chamber music), David Lutz (Vocal accompaniment) and Rainer Keuschnig (modern and contemporary piano literature).

Raluca Stirbat has been awarded many prizes at national and international competitions. She has won the Golden Lyre at the ‘Ciprian Porumbescu’ Competition in Romania, the ‘Virtuosi per musica di pianoforte’ Competition in the Czech Republic, the ‘Sanremo Classico’ and the ‘Stefano Marizza’ Competition in Trieste. The list of her artistic activities as a soloist and a chamber music partner is just as impressive as the countless orchestral concerts that have taken Raluca Stirbat on tours throughout continental Europe and the UK, Cyprus, Tunisia, Turkey, Morocco, Singapore and Iran, making her a welcome guest at various festivals, including the ‘Wiener Festwochen’, ‘Pianoforte a Bellinzona’ (Switzerland), ‘Dinu Lipatti’ in Kronstadt and ‘Fête de la musique’ in Iaşi (Romania), ‘Joseph Hoffman’ in Nałęczów (Poland), ‘Autumn Festival’ in Budapest and Szeged (Hungary), ‘Thracia Summer’ in Plovdiv (Bulgaria) and Carthago Music Festival (Tunisia).

Her international renown has been underlined not least by many recordings, such as Enescu’s Sonata op. 24 No. 1 in F sharp minor and Liszt’s Fantaisie romantique sur deux mélodies suisses (S. 157) for Swiss Radio DRS or the Piano Concertos No. 2 in F minor by Chopin and No. 19, KV 459 in F major by Mozart for Music Minus One (United States), and as a chamber music partner the Piano Trio op. 4 by Pancho Wladigeroff for Hungaroton Studio in Budapest or the Sept poésies pour violon et piano by Ursula Bagdasarjanz for the Swiss music label VDE-Gallo. Moreover, she has recorded all the songs by George Enescu in collaboration with the ORF (with Leontina Vaduva, Ileana Tonca, Mihaela Ungureanu, Laura Tatulescu, and Sorin Coliban).

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