George Enescu: Romania's Underrated Genius

[@lvascan]

Thank you very much for this wonderful biographical work about the great George Enescu! With gratitude, a Romanian musician!

[@anamariasandi61]

As the daughter of painter Dumitru Bâșcu, his half brother I thank you very much.

[@gabrielaenescu8774]

OMG, he's my great uncle!!

[@AndreiAnghelLiszt]

Wow!!

[@matmaneri5752]

I've been very fortunate to work on his music the past 10 years.

[@pianomanhere]

Which of Enescu's pieces have you been learning / performing ?

[@ejb7969]

Oh would I love to hear you play Enescu ...

[@erzsblasfantaven3334]

*France* : _exists_ *Any Romanian artist leaving Romania* : ight imma head out

[@ClassicalNerd]

😂

[@pianomanhere]

Cost/benefit Bucharest/Paris ... Cluj/Lyon ... Timisoara/Grenoble ...um... yeah ... send him to France. oh and then eventually there was that awful couple Nicolae and Elena Ceaucescu... High motivation to high-tail oneself out of Romania to escape perhaps THE most brutal regime in the Soviet bloc aside from that of Josef Stalin. 😬🚬 😬🚬 I know that some of that comes later in history, but.. um.. something... 😁

[@paungabriel9360]

@@pianomanhere It was by far the worst regime in Europe after Stalin died. Romanians were poor by communist standards

[@ionutunroman7525]

Thanks for talking about Enescu! 👍 Can you also do a video about Ciprian Porumbescu?

[@ClassicalNerd]

Porumbescu is currently 346/346 in the request pool: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

[@charlesboyle9223]

Thank you so much for all your hard work researching, writing and editing these erudite and entertaining videos. I can tell from the comments that your industry is well appreciated and I always look forward to these biographical gems. Again, thanks.

[@lucienr7931]

Finally it's here! Thankyou so much!

[@mfruji]

great video, and the only one on KZbin in english about Enescu. You did an amaizing job.

[@graceonaga3094]

Thank you for such in depth research and valuable information about Enescu. It casts light upon the man as well as the people whom he affected. Very very much appreciated.

[@pianomanhere]

Thanks for your wonderful videos. Teaching is truly your forté. That most of Enescu's music (including his magnificent opera "Oedipe") is not in standard U.S. or international repertoire is almost a scandal. Lovers of classical music are missing out on a great deal of fine music if all they know of Enescu is his Romanian Rhapsody No.1.

[@maneaelenna1382]

Well, now I feel proud of living in 🇷🇴.

[@stefanpredoi4564]

It's always struck me as sad that the Romanian government never promoted Enescu to the degree which he deserved. Outside Romania I rarely hear him mentioned even today compared to how much I hear about Bartok, Smetana, Grieg, or any of the other "national" composers.

[@fredhoupt4078]

Excellent report. Loved it.

[@MariaMagdalenaBujor]

As a Romanian musician, thank you😊

[@arman.kashef]

Great content. Thank you.

[@TJ-mm8fx]

Brilliant channel - so grateful for these informative videos.

[@lisys511]

Enescu will enter the public domain in the EU next year :>

[@emilynightingale7758]

thanks, i was just thinking how nice it would be to have a new video from you to watch while i eat my oxtail soup.

[@anajuprado.s]

kisses from Brazil ❤️

[@ladymacbethofmtensk896]

Some thoughts on Enescu...that fear of recording driving performance toward one correct interpretation may have been better founded than Enescu knew, because with the rise of popular music mainly aimed at the young, one generation after another increasingly thought of songs in terms of one performer, one album, and this attitude informs the algorithms on classical music today, and can confuse portable players to no end. And I can't help but consider some similarities between Enescu and his countryman Celibidace, who was as obsessed with perfection in performance as Enescu was in composition.

[@RobertJSedky]

Informative and enjoyable. Thank you kind sir!

[@matmaneri5752]

Well done!

[@pawncube2050]

14:09 Sounds like a severe case of VPS (Viola Playing Syndrome) sorry I couldnt help

[@nicoville20]

As a music major, I appreciate your videos on these different composers. If I may suggest, I would like to see you do a video on John Philip Sousa, or maybe Leonard Bernstein.

[@ClassicalNerd]

Duly noted: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

[@lisys511]

Can you do video of Constantin Silivestri (1913-1969) plz

[@maxwellwesterberg]

Ayyyyyyyyyy y yyyyyyyy I’m excited for this

[@joshlyphout4983]

Great video! I'm sure you must be working on plenty of other projects right know and I know he's still alive but I would really love to see a video on Phillip Glass. I think you could do a really good job on him

[@joshlyphout4983]

I just went on your website and saw all the requests you have right now... feel free to ignore this, you have more than enough work ahead of you

[@machtrebel]

@@joshlyphout4983 hahaha, yeah I saw his backlog and felt bad for adding a name to it

[@krzysztofq7420]

Hi, I'd like to add my 5 votes to: Witold Lutosławski, Scott Joplin, Henryk Wieniawski, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Domenico Scarlatti. Thank you for your work!

[@ClassicalNerd]

Duly noted: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

[@ClassicalNerd]

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[@Yazerhoun]

You've done videos about Chopin, Alkan, Brahms, the Schumman couple, Wagner... BUT WHERE IS MA BOI LISZT? Do you plan on making a video about him? Anyway, great video here, as usual.

[@ClassicalNerd]

Never fear! In 2020, one of my goals is to go back and remake a lot of older videos, to bring them up to my current standards, Liszt included. I made a video on Liszt a long time ago, but I took it down a while back because, frankly, it just wasn't up to my current standards. The background music was too loud, and though his life story is _incredibly_ interesting, I focused 98% of my time on _that_ as opposed to talking about his music and its role in history, when ideally I'd like a balance as close to 50-50 as the literature allows.

[@Yazerhoun]

@@ClassicalNerd I am so glad to hear that! Thanks for your dedication, you rock! (Or shall I say, you classical? Sounds weird. Anyway, cheers to you)

[@dianabunaciu9645]

❤

[@krzysztofq7420]

What's your opinion on "whole beat metronome practice" and the YT channel "AuthenticSound"?

[@ClassicalNerd]

No comment; while I'm aware of his channel, I have not had the time to really watch a lot of his videos, so I would find it inauthentic to pass judgement.

[@parsa.mostaghim]

did you make a video on ligeti?

[@ClassicalNerd]

Yes! All my composer biographies may be found in my “Great Composers” playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLkaVvuj0OEZ1LwVYnAUV4dxLa6YYaslwT

[@elenasalih4319]

There's lot's of Romanians you can make clips of who are equally great as Enescu .Cuclin, or Horatiu Radulescu: Theodor Grigoriu, George Stephanescu, Mihail Andricu, Stan Golestan, Dinicu, Anatol Vieru, Nicolae Bretan, Alexandru Flechtenmacher, Eduard Caudella. Eugen Doga, Iosif Ivanovici, Dimitrie Cantemir and many many more. You can search for them on KZbin, see what you like or not and make youtube clip of them.

[@ClassicalNerd]

I keep track of requests at lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html but since I get so many, I can only take up to five from a given person. If you'd like to choose five of these to add to the pool, I would be more than happy to do so, but given that there are almost 350 of them as of this writing and I can only produce videos on a once-every-two-weeks basis, it is unlikely that I will get around to any of them any time soon unless they're reasonably high up in the pool.

[@ine6149]

Plssss make one of these about Lili Boulanger

[@ClassicalNerd]

I made one about three years ago [ kzbin.info/www/bejne/omXIhISIqt6IedU ], so it's shorter than what I do nowadays, but it's still out there!

[@classicalmusic3334]

If possible I would really like to upvote Vítezslav Novák and Reinhold Glière.

[@ClassicalNerd]

Duly noted: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

[@YungCrusty]

Could you please do a video on Yoshiki?

[@ClassicalNerd]

I don't cover living composers, as my biographical series is intended to be complete retrospectives placing the composers in question in proper historical context, and living composers' careers are never really over. Sorry!

[@alkanista]

Just today I was listening to Enescu's 3rd Symphony and didn't notice anything particularly nationalistic about it at all. That's also true of some of his other works. I would guess that at least half of them would not be identifiable as "Romanian" to any musically knowledgeable person who heard them without knowing who wrote them. It is kind of strange how he did write intensely national music along with the other, more general kind - there's a sort of compartmentalized aspect to his compositions, that way.

[@faribanouri3752]

Have you done anything about Iranian composers? Like Hosein Dehlavi?

[@ClassicalNerd]

All my biographies may be found on my "Great Composers" playlist [ kzbin.info/aero/PLkaVvuj0OEZ1LwVYnAUV4dxLa6YYaslwT ]. Thus far, I've not done any Iranian composers, but I'm certainly open to it. Dehlavi has been added to the request pool at lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

[@faribanouri3752]

@@paeffill9428 Oh yes his father was Parsi Iranian. I guess it may count.

[@machtrebel]

Peter Racine Fricker? Now that's obscure!

[@ClassicalNerd]

Duly noted: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

[@josephalvarez5315]

February is Black history month, and I think you should make a video on the female African American composer Florence Price! I recently heard her concerto in one movement in concert and it was fantastic

[@ClassicalNerd]

Duly noted: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

[@yoboysemaj2617]

Make one about Scott Joplin cause of other black people

[@ClassicalNerd]

Duly noted: lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

[@alfonsomartinez328]

Vivaldi! Please

[@ClassicalNerd]

You've already requested Vivaldi, and he's currently seventh in the pool at lentovivace.com/classicalnerd.html

[@andorrasrevenge1683]

Mahler was always close to dead i heard.

[@quidam_blackleaf]

8f

[@swymaj02]

He wrote his debut at sixteen? Not impressive compared to Mozart and Co., but still gosh!!

[@zacharydetrick7428]

not underrated