My latest piece for STRINGS magazine is on the very belated US premiere of an early string trio by George Enescu:
Fellow musicians — especially string players — have resorted to some striking superlatives to characterize George Enescu (1881–1955). Pablo Casals, a frequent chamber partner, once remarked that since Mozart, there had been no greater musical phenomenon, while Enescu’s student Yehudi Menuhin believed the Op. 25 Third Sonata (“dans le caractère populaire roumain”) represented “the greatest achievement of musical notation” he had ever known…
Filed under: chamber music, George Enescu, Seattle Chamber Music Society, Strings
MEMETERIA by Thomas May 