Enescu: String Octet in C - Movement III

Remus Azoitei and the Plush Ensemble explore the scale and ambition of an epic early work by the Romanian composer Georges Enescu.
Not wildly difficult to play, it is nonetheless wildly disconcerting. An explosive and massive fugue, a mysterious nocturne, a wild waltz… time and again, Enescu drives his performers pell-mell towards Sinaia. If you get totally carried away with this process, you are doing something wrong. Nonetheless, there are undeniably those moments when Enescu expects you to unleash Hell.

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Adrian Brendel, cello, Plush Ensemble, Remus Azoitei, Romania, viola, violin, Ruth Rogers, Corinne Chapelle, Simon Blendis, Susan Knight, Tobias Breider, Pierre Doumenge, Enescu, and Lutyens