Enescu: String Octet in C - Movement II

Of his epic early achievement (he was only nineteen when he wrote it) George Enescu wrote, "No engineer putting his first suspension bridge across a river can have agonized more than I did…"
Not wildly difficult to play, the Octet 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, St Jude, Ruth Rogers, Corinne Chapelle, Simon Blendis, Susan Knight, Tobias Breider, Pierre Doumenge, Enescu, Lutyens, and s'